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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:13:36 +0800
From:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
To:	'Jaegeuk Kim' <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] f2fs: serialize block allocation of dio
 writes to enhance multithread performance

Hi Jaegeuk,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chao Yu [mailto:chao2.yu@...sung.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 2:44 PM
> To: Jaegeuk Kim
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH v2] f2fs: serialize block allocation of dio writes to enhance
> multithread performance
> 
> When performing big dio writes concurrently, our performace will be low
> because of Thread A's allocation of multi continuous blocks will be
> interrupted by Thread B, there are two cases as below:
>  - In Thread B, we may change current segment to a new segment for LFS
>    allocation if we dio write in the beginning of the file.
>  - In Thread B, we may allocate blocks in the middle of Thread A's
>    allocation, which make blocks allocated in Thread A being inconsecutive.
> 
> This patch adds writepages mutex lock to make block allocation in dio write
> being atomic to avoid above issues.
> 
> Test environment 1:
> ubuntu os with linux kernel 4.4-rc4, intel i7-3770, 16g memory,
> 32g kingston sd card.
> 
> fio --name seqw --ioengine=sync --invalidate=1 --rw=write --directory=/mnt/f2fs
> --filesize=256m --size=16m --bs=2m --direct=1
> --numjobs=10
> 
> before:
>   WRITE: io=163840KB, aggrb=5125KB/s, minb=512KB/s, maxb=776KB/s, mint=21105msec,
> maxt=31967msec
> patched:
>   WRITE: io=163840KB, aggrb=10424KB/s, minb=1042KB/s, maxb=1172KB/s, mint=13975msec,
> maxt=15717msec
> 
> Test environment 2:
> Note4 eMMC
> 
> fio --name seqw --ioengine=sync --invalidate=1 --rw=write --directory=/data/test/
> --filesize=256m --size=64m --bs=2m --direct=1
> --numjobs=16
> 
> before:
>   WRITE: io=1024.0MB, aggrb=103583KB/s, minb=6473KB/s, maxb=8806KB/s, mint=7442msec,
> maxt=10123msec
> patched:
>   WRITE: io=1024.0MB, aggrb=124860KB/s, minb=7803KB/s, maxb=9315KB/s, mint=7035msec,
> maxt=8398msec
> 
> As Yunlei He reported when he test with current patch:
> "Does share writepages mutex lock have an effect on cache write?
> Here is AndroBench result on my phone:
> 
> Before patch:
> 			1R1W		8R8W		16R16W
> Sequential Write	161.31		163.85		154.67
> Random  Write		9.48		17.66		18.09
> 
> After patch:
> 			1R1W		8R8W		16R16W
> Sequential Write	159.61		157.24		160.11
> Random  Write		9.17		8.51		8.8
> 
> Unit:Mb/s, File size: 64M, Buffer size: 4k"
> 
> The turth is androidbench uses single thread with dio write to test performance
> of sequential write, and use multi-threads with dio write to test performance
> of random write. so we can not see any improvement in sequentail write test
> since serializing dio page allocation can only improve performance in
> multi-thread scenario, and there is a regression in multi-thread test with 4k
> dio write, this is because grabbing sbi->writepages lock for serializing block
> allocation stop the concurrency, so that less small dio bios could be merged,
> moreover, when there are huge number of small dio writes, grabbing mutex lock
> per dio increases the overhead.

Since the whole DIOs in Androbench are IPU, so in mutex_lock/allocate_block/
mutex_unlock actually we didn't allocating blocks, but blocking the concurrency
by grabing sbi->writepages.

How about grabbing sbi->writepages when it needs to allocate block(s) like
following patch?

---
 fs/f2fs/data.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index ac9e7c6..4439a85 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -458,6 +458,44 @@ got_it:
 	return page;
 }
 
+static bool __need_allocate_blocks(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset,
+								size_t count)
+{
+	struct dnode_of_data dn;
+	pgoff_t start = F2FS_BYTES_TO_BLK(offset);
+	pgoff_t end = start + F2FS_BYTES_TO_BLK(count);
+	pgoff_t end_offset;
+
+	while (start < end) {
+		int ret;
+
+		set_new_dnode(&dn, inode, NULL, NULL, 0);
+		ret = get_dnode_of_data(&dn, start, LOOKUP_NODE);
+		if (ret == -ENOENT) {
+			return true;
+		} else if (ret) {
+			return ret;
+		}
+
+		end_offset = ADDRS_PER_PAGE(dn.node_page, F2FS_I(inode));
+
+		while (dn.ofs_in_node < end_offset && start < end) {
+			block_t blkaddr;
+
+			blkaddr = datablock_addr(dn.node_page, dn.ofs_in_node);
+			if (blkaddr == NULL_ADDR || blkaddr == NEW_ADDR) {
+				f2fs_put_dnode(&dn);
+				return true;
+			}
+			start++;
+			dn.ofs_in_node++;
+		}
+
+		f2fs_put_dnode(&dn);
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 static int __allocate_data_block(struct dnode_of_data *dn)
 {
 	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(dn->inode);
@@ -1620,7 +1658,9 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
 	size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
+	int rw = iov_iter_rw(iter);
 	int err;
 
 	/* we don't need to use inline_data strictly */
@@ -1635,20 +1675,24 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_enter(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter));
+	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_enter(inode, offset, count, rw);
 
-	if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE) {
-		err = __allocate_data_blocks(inode, offset, count);
-		if (err)
-			goto out;
+	if (rw == WRITE) {
+		if (__need_allocate_blocks(inode, offset, count) > 0) {
+			mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages);
+			err = __allocate_data_blocks(inode, offset, count);
+			mutex_unlock(&sbi->writepages);
+			if (err)
+				goto out;
+		}
 	}
 
 	err = blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, iter, offset, get_data_block_dio);
 out:
-	if (err < 0 && iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
+	if (err < 0 && rw == WRITE)
 		f2fs_write_failed(mapping, offset + count);
 
-	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_exit(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter), err);
+	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_exit(inode, offset, count, rw, err);
 
 	return err;
 }
-- 
2.6.3

Thanks,

> 
> After all, serializing dio could only be used for concurrent scenario of
> big dio, so this patch also introduces a threshold in sysfs to provide user
> the interface of defining 'a big dio' with specified page number, which could
> be used to control wthether serialize or not that kind of dio with specified
> page number.
> 
> The optimization works in rare scenario.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
> ---
> v2:
>  - merge another related patch into this one.
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs | 12 ++++++++++++
>  fs/f2fs/data.c                          | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                          |  3 +++
>  fs/f2fs/super.c                         |  3 +++
>  4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> index 0345f2d..560a4f1 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-fs-f2fs
> @@ -92,3 +92,15 @@ Date:		October 2015
>  Contact:	"Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
>  Description:
>  		 Controls the count of nid pages to be readaheaded.
> +
> +What:		/sys/fs/f2fs/<disk>/serialized_dio_pages
> +Date:		December 2015
> +Contact:	"Chao Yu" <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
> +Description:
> +		 It is a threshold with the unit of page size.
> +                 If DIO page count is equal or big than the threshold,
> +                 whole process of block address allocation of dio pages
> +                 will become atomic like buffered write.
> +                 It is used to maximize bandwidth utilization in the
> +                 scenario of concurrent write with dio vs buffered or
> +                 dio vs dio.
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> index 8a89810..d506a0e 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
> @@ -1619,7 +1619,9 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
>  	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
>  	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
> +	struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi = F2FS_I_SB(inode);
>  	size_t count = iov_iter_count(iter);
> +	int rw = iov_iter_rw(iter);
>  	int err;
> 
>  	/* we don't need to use inline_data strictly */
> @@ -1634,20 +1636,27 @@ static ssize_t f2fs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
>  	if (err)
>  		return err;
> 
> -	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_enter(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter));
> +	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_enter(inode, offset, count, rw);
> +
> +	if (rw == WRITE) {
> +		bool serialized = (F2FS_BYTES_TO_BLK(count) >=
> +						sbi->serialized_dio_pages);
> 
> -	if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE) {
> +		if (serialized)
> +			mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages);
>  		err = __allocate_data_blocks(inode, offset, count);
> +		if (serialized)
> +			mutex_unlock(&sbi->writepages);
>  		if (err)
>  			goto out;
>  	}
> 
>  	err = blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, iter, offset, get_data_block_dio);
>  out:
> -	if (err < 0 && iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
> +	if (err < 0 && rw == WRITE)
>  		f2fs_write_failed(mapping, offset + count);
> 
> -	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_exit(inode, offset, count, iov_iter_rw(iter), err);
> +	trace_f2fs_direct_IO_exit(inode, offset, count, rw, err);
> 
>  	return err;
>  }
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> index a339508..293dc4e 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> @@ -333,6 +333,8 @@ enum {
> 
>  #define MAX_DIR_RA_PAGES	4	/* maximum ra pages of dir */
> 
> +#define DEF_SERIALIZED_DIO_PAGES	64	/* default serialized dio pages */
> +
>  /* vector size for gang look-up from extent cache that consists of radix tree */
>  #define EXT_TREE_VEC_SIZE	64
> 
> @@ -784,6 +786,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
>  	unsigned int total_valid_inode_count;	/* valid inode count */
>  	int active_logs;			/* # of active logs */
>  	int dir_level;				/* directory level */
> +	int serialized_dio_pages;		/* serialized direct IO pages */
> 
>  	block_t user_block_count;		/* # of user blocks */
>  	block_t total_valid_block_count;	/* # of valid blocks */
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> index a2e3a8f..4a2e51e 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> @@ -218,6 +218,7 @@ F2FS_RW_ATTR(NM_INFO, f2fs_nm_info, ram_thresh, ram_thresh);
>  F2FS_RW_ATTR(NM_INFO, f2fs_nm_info, ra_nid_pages, ra_nid_pages);
>  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, max_victim_search, max_victim_search);
>  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, dir_level, dir_level);
> +F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, serialized_dio_pages, serialized_dio_pages);
>  F2FS_RW_ATTR(F2FS_SBI, f2fs_sb_info, cp_interval, cp_interval);
> 
>  #define ATTR_LIST(name) (&f2fs_attr_##name.attr)
> @@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ static struct attribute *f2fs_attrs[] = {
>  	ATTR_LIST(min_fsync_blocks),
>  	ATTR_LIST(max_victim_search),
>  	ATTR_LIST(dir_level),
> +	ATTR_LIST(serialized_dio_pages),
>  	ATTR_LIST(ram_thresh),
>  	ATTR_LIST(ra_nid_pages),
>  	ATTR_LIST(cp_interval),
> @@ -1125,6 +1127,7 @@ static void init_sb_info(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
>  		atomic_set(&sbi->nr_pages[i], 0);
> 
>  	sbi->dir_level = DEF_DIR_LEVEL;
> +	sbi->serialized_dio_pages = DEF_SERIALIZED_DIO_PAGES;
>  	sbi->cp_interval = DEF_CP_INTERVAL;
>  	clear_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
> 
> --
> 2.6.3
> 
> 
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