On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:12:03PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2014, Dave Chinner wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:31:18PM -0600, Mark Nelson wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12/01/2014 01:23 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > > > >On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Mark Nelson wrote: > > > >>On 11/30/2014 09:26 PM, Sage Weil wrote: > > > >>>On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, ??? wrote: > > > >>>>Hi sage: > > > >>>> For fadvise_random it only change the file readahead. I think it make > > > >>>>no sense for xfs > > > >>>>Becasue xfs don't like btrfs, the journal write always on old place(at > > > >>>>first allocated). We only can make those place contiguous. > > > >>> > > > >>>I'm thinking of the OSD journal, which can be a regular file. I guess it > > > >>>would probably be an allocator mode, set via a XFS_XFLAG_* flag passed to > > > >>>an ioctl, which makes the delayed allocation especially unconcerned with > > > >>>keeping blocks contiguous. It would need to be combined with the discard > > > >>>ioctl so that any journal write can be allocated wherever it is most > > > >>>convenient (hopefully contiguous to some other write). > > > >>> > > > >>>sage > > > >> > > > >>Hi Sage, > > > >> > > > >>Could you quick write down the steps you are thinking we'd take to implement > > > >>this? I'm concerned about the amount of overhead this could cause but I want > > > >>to make sure I'm thinking about it correctly. Especially when trim happens and > > > >>what you think/expect to happens at the FS and device levels. > > > > > > > >1- set journal_discard = true > > > >2- add journal_preallocate = true config option, set it to false, and make > > > >the fallocate(2) call on journal create conditional on that. > > > >3- test with defaults (discard = false, preallocate = true) and > > > >compare it to discard = true + preallocate = false (with file journal). > > > >4- possibly add a call to set extsize to something small on the journal > > > >file. Or give xfs some other appropriate hint, if one exists. > > > > What behaviour are you wanting for a journal file? it sounds like > > you want it to behave like a wandering log: automatically allocating > > it's next block where-ever the previous write of any kind occurred? > > Precisely. Well, as long as it is adjacent to *some* other scheduled > write, it would save us a seek. The real question, I guess, is whether > there is an XFS allocation mode that makes no attempt to avoid > fragmentation for the file and that chooses something adjacent to other > small, newly-written data during delayed allocation. Ok, so what is the most common underlying storage you need to optimise for? Is it raid5/6 where a small write will trigger a larger RMW cycle and so proximity rather than exact adjacency matters, or is it raid 0/1/jbod where exact adjacency is the only way to avoid a seek? I suspect that we can play certain tricks to trigger unaligned, discontiguous allocation (i.e. no target allocation block), but the question is whether we can get determine sufficient allocation/writeback context to enable delayed allocation to make sensible "next written block" decisions. > > We can't actually do that in XFS - we have no idea where the last > > write IO occurred because that's several layers down the IO stack. > > We could store where the last allocation was, but that doesn't > > guarantee we can allocate another block contiguously to that. Even > > if we do, that then fragments whatever file the journal block now > > sits adjacent to. > > > > The other issue is that block allocation is divided up into > > allocation groups, and allocation is mostly siloed to avoid randomly > > allocating a file into different AGs. Just randomly allocating > > blocks to a file is the polar opposite of everything the XFS > > allocation strategies do, hence a bit more clarity on what the > > overall goal is would be helpful. ;) > > It's a circular file, usually a few GB in site, written sequentially with > a range of small to large (block-aligned) write sizes, and (for all > intents and purposes) is never read. We periodically overwrite the first > block with recent start and end pointers and other metadata. Ok, so it's just another typical WAL file. ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
