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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:24:46 -0800 From: Andy Isaacson <adi@...apodia.org> To: btrfs-devel <btrfs-devel@....oracle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: btrfs: 21 minutes to read 1.2M file directory I have a directory with 1.2M files in it, which makes readdir very slow on btrfs with cold caches (although it's reasonably fast with hot caches as in the first example below): % time find /btr/foo > /btr/foo.list find /btr/foo > /btr/foo.list 4.10s user 7.97s system 36% cpu 33.275 total % head /btr/foo.list /btr/foo /btr/foo/1281373625.777.fg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373625.777.bg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373625.948.fg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373625.948.bg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373626.096.fg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373626.096.bg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373626.218.fg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373626.218.bg.jpg /btr/foo/1281373626.350.fg.jpg % wc !$ wc /btr/foo.list 12166666 12166666 401499940 /btr/foo.list % wc -l /btr/foo.list 12166666 /btr/foo.list % sudo sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3 vm.drop_caches=0 vm.drop_caches = 3 vm.drop_caches = 0 % time find /btr/foo > /btr/foo.list.2 find /btr/foo > /btr/foo.list.2 5.62s user 24.54s system 2% cpu 21:40.90 total % uname -a Linux pyron 2.6.36-rc7-00149-g29979aa #71 SMP Wed Oct 13 09:42:57 PDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Interestingly, while readdir is busy I'm only seeing IO on sdb even though the btrfs is on 3 targets: Label: btr uuid: 1271de53-b3d2-4d68-9d48-b19487e1c982 Total devices 3 FS bytes used 555.13GB devid 1 size 18.65GB used 18.64GB path /dev/sda2 devid 3 size 512.00GB used 44.13GB path /dev/sdc1 devid 2 size 512.00GB used 511.76GB path /dev/sdb1 "iostat -k 1 | grep sdb" tells me: Device: tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn sdb 173.00 692.00 0.00 692 0 sdb 185.00 740.00 0.00 740 0 sdb 198.00 792.00 0.00 792 0 sdb 177.00 712.00 0.00 712 0 I updated to a recent git and it's still slow (my test hasn't completed yet 19 minutes in): Linux pyron 2.6.37-rc6-11882-g55ec86f #72 SMP Mon Dec 20 13:34:38 PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux The devices are: [ 1.834527] ata1.00: ATA-7: INTEL SSDSA2M040G2GC, 2CV102HD, max UDMA/133 [ 1.834816] ata1.00: 78165360 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 1.835369] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 1.835776] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA INTEL SSDSA2M040 2CV1 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ... [ 2.904919] ata3.00: ATA-8: ST31500341AS, CC1H, max UDMA/133 [ 2.905206] ata3.00: 2930277168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 2.947393] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 2.947850] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31500341AS CC1H PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 ... [ 3.989664] ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 4.018524] ata5.00: ATA-8: ST31500341AS, CC1H, max UDMA/133 [ 4.018811] ata5.00: 2930277168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 4.060838] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 4.061205] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST31500341AS CC1H PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 The host is a "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @2.80GHz" with 12GB RAM. Thanks, -andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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