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Date:   Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:58:31 -0600
From:   Jonathan Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...ux.dev>
To:     Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jonathan.derrick@...idigm.com, jonathanx.sk.derrick@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] md/bitmap: Add chunk-count-based bitmap flushing



On 10/7/2022 11:50 AM, Song Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 3:09 PM Jonathan Derrick
> <jonathan.derrick@...ux.dev> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.h b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.h
>> index cfd7395de8fd..e0aeedbdde17 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.h
>> +++ b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.h
>> @@ -11,10 +11,12 @@
>>  /* version 4 insists the bitmap is in little-endian order
>>   * with version 3, it is host-endian which is non-portable
>>   * Version 5 is currently set only for clustered devices
>> ++ * Version 6 supports the flush-chunks threshold
>>   */
>>  #define BITMAP_MAJOR_HI 4
>>  #define BITMAP_MAJOR_CLUSTERED 5
>>  #define        BITMAP_MAJOR_HOSTENDIAN 3
>> +#define BITMAP_MAJOR_CHUNKFLUSH 6
>>
>>  /*
>>   * in-memory bitmap:
>> @@ -135,7 +137,8 @@ typedef struct bitmap_super_s {
>>                                   * reserved for the bitmap. */
>>         __le32 nodes;        /* 68 the maximum number of nodes in cluster. */
>>         __u8 cluster_name[64]; /* 72 cluster name to which this md belongs */
>> -       __u8  pad[256 - 136]; /* set to zero */
>> +       __le32 daemon_flush_chunks; /* 136 dirty chunks between flushes */
>> +       __u8  pad[256 - 140]; /* set to zero */
>>  } bitmap_super_t;
> 
> Do we really need this to be persistent? How about we configure it at run
> time via a sysfs file?
> 
> Also, please share more data on the performance benefit of the set.
> 
> Thanks,
> Song
> 
Hi Song,

Patch 1/2 changes default behavior, which patch 2/2 tries to address.
I can change it to be configurable via sysfs instead.
Should there be a default?


Here are my observations via biosnoop and RAID1, 4M chunksize, 238436 chunks, bitmap=internal
fio --name=test --direct=1 --filename=/dev/md0 --rw=randwrite --runtime=60
 --percentile_list=1.0:25.0:50.0:75.0:90.0:95.0:99.0:99.9:99.99:99..999999:100.0


Default, bitmap updates happened concurrently with I/O:
   bw (  KiB/s): min=18690, max=30618, per=99.94%, avg=23822.07, stdev=2522.73, samples=119
   iops        : min= 4672, max= 7654, avg=5955.20, stdev=630.71, samples=119

TIME(s)     COMM           PID     DISK      T SECTOR     BYTES  LAT(ms)
38.090366   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 40         4096      0.01
38.090423   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 40         4096      0.07
38.090442   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 1016633184 4096      0.01
38.090439   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 1016633184 4096      0.01
38.090479   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.01
38.090493   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 1449894256 4096      0.01
38.090477   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 56         4096      0.01
38.090496   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 1449894256 4096      0.01
38.090530   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
38.090555   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 110493568  4096      0.01
38.090538   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
38.090551   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 110493568  4096      0.01
38.090596   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.01
38.090647   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 56         4096      0.06
38.090666   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 1455846976 4096      0.01
38.090663   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 1455846976 4096      0.01
38.090707   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.01
38.090699   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 64         4096      0.01
38.090723   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 1665013728 4096      0.01
38.090720   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 1665013728 4096      0.01
38.090764   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.01
38.090812   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 64         4096      0.06
38.090832   md0_raid1      4800    nvme3n1   W 1637994296 4096      0.01
38.090828   md0_raid1      4800    nvme6n1   W 1637994296 4096      0.01




With patch 1/2, bitmaps only update on the 'delay' parameter (default 5s):
   bw (  KiB/s): min=135712, max=230938, per=100.00%, avg=209308.56, stdev=29254.31, samples=119
   iops        : min=33928, max=57734, avg=52326.78, stdev=7313.57, samples=119

TIME(s)     COMM           PID     DISK      T SECTOR     BYTES  LAT(ms)
16.292235   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 297367432  4096      0.01
16.292258   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
16.292266   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 24         4096      0.01
16.292277   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 32         4096      0.01
16.292259   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
16.292280   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 32         4096      0.01
16.292305   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 56         4096      0.01
16.292286   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 40         4096      0.01
16.292295   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 48         4096      0.01
16.292326   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 72         1536      0.01
16.292323   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.02
16.292326   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.03
16.292334   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 72         1536      0.02
16.300697   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1297533744 4096      0.01
16.300702   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 1297533744 4096      0.01
16.300803   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 1649080856 4096      0.01
16.300798   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1649080856 4096      0.01
16.300823   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1539317792 4096      0.01
16.300845   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1634570232 4096      0.01
16.300867   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 579232208  4096      0.01
16.300889   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1818140424 4096      0.01
16.300922   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 412971920  4096      0.02
...
21.293225   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 1279122360 4096      0.01
21.293242   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 40326272   4096      0.01
21.293223   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 1279122360 4096      0.01
21.293243   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 40326272   4096      0.01
21.293261   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
21.293266   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 24         4096      0.01
21.293271   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 32         4096      0.01
21.293275   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 32         4096      0.01
21.293292   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 48         4096      0.01
21.293296   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 56         4096      0.01
21.293309   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 72         1536      0.01
21.293266   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 24         4096      0.01
21.293326   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 48         4096      0.05
21.293328   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 40         4096      0.06
21.293331   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 72         1536      0.03
21.293333   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.04
21.293334   md0_raid1      4841    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.05
21.298526   md0_raid1      4841    nvme3n1   W 681973000  4096      0.01




Good, but with the granularity of N seconds, it might be too infrequent.
Here is chunk-flush=512 (2GB threshold in 4MB chunk size):
   bw (  KiB/s): min=92692, max=134904, per=100.00%, avg=125127.43, stdev=6758.51, samples=119
   iops        : min=23173, max=33726, avg=31281.55, stdev=1689.63, samples=119

TIME(s)     COMM           PID     DISK      T SECTOR     BYTES  LAT(ms)
13.193339   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.193344   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 32         4096      0.01
13.193346   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 24         4096      0.01
13.193350   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 40         4096      0.01
13.193356   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 48         4096      0.01
13.193361   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.01
13.193363   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.01
13.193555   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 72         1536      0.20
13.193289   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 1912285848 4096      0.01
13.193306   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 836455896  4096      0.01
13.193323   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 233728136  4096      0.01
13.193339   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.193344   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 24         4096      0.01
13.193362   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 48         4096      0.01
13.193365   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 64         4096      0.01
13.193366   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 56         4096      0.01
13.193574   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 72         1536      0.21
13.196759   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 89571592   4096      0.01
13.196810   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 89571592   4096      0.06
13.196913   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.196910   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.199444   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 64         4096      0.01
13.199447   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 137126232  4096      0.01
13.199515   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 137126232  4096      0.08
13.199519   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.08
13.199617   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 1216062808 4096      0.01
... (508 ios later)
13.208764   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.208768   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 32         4096      0.01
13.208770   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 24         4096      0.01
13.208775   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 40         4096      0.01
13.208781   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 48         4096      0.01
13.208786   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 56         4096      0.01
13.208790   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 64         4096      0.01
13.208729   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 1607847808 4096      0.01
13.208747   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 371214368  4096      0.01
13.208770   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 32         4096      0.01
13.208789   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 64         4096      0.01
13.208952   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 72         1536      0.17
13.209079   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 72         1536      0.29
13.212216   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 1146106480 4096      0.01
13.212269   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 1146106480 4096      0.06
13.212368   md0_raid1      5972    nvme6n1   W 16         4096      0.01
13.212365   md0_raid1      5972    nvme3n1   W 16         4096      0.01


Without 1/2: 6k iops
With 1/2: 52k iops
With 2/2 params as above: 31k iops

The count calculation could use some improvement to close the iops gap to delay-based flushing

>>
>>  /* notes:
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
>> index b4e2d8b87b61..d25574e46283 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/md.h
>> +++ b/drivers/md/md.h
>> @@ -497,6 +497,7 @@ struct mddev {
>>                 struct mutex            mutex;
>>                 unsigned long           chunksize;
>>                 unsigned long           daemon_sleep; /* how many jiffies between updates? */
>> +               unsigned int            daemon_flush_chunks; /* how many dirty chunks between updates */
>>                 unsigned long           max_write_behind; /* write-behind mode */
>>                 int                     external;
>>                 int                     nodes; /* Maximum number of nodes in the cluster */
>> --
>> 2.31.1
>>

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