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During a rename we pin the log to make sure no one commits a log that
reflects an ongoing rename operation, as it might result in a committed
log where it recorded the unlink of the old name without having recorded
the new name. However we are taking the subvolume's log_mutex before
incrementing the log_writers counter, which is not necessary since that
counter is atomic and we only remove the old name from the log and add
the new name to the log after we have incremented log_writers, ensuring
that no one can commit the log after we have removed the old name from
the log and before we added the new name to the log.
By taking the log_mutex lock we are just adding unnecessary contention on
the lock, which can become visible for workloads that mix renames with
fsyncs, writes for files opened with O_SYNC and unlink operations (if the
inode or its parent were fsynced before in the current transaction).
So just remove the lock and unlock of the subvolume's log_mutex at
btrfs_pin_log_trans().
Using dbench, which mixes different types of operations that end up taking
that mutex (fsyncs, renames, unlinks and writes into files opened with
O_SYNC) revealed some small gains. The following script that calls dbench
was used:
#!/bin/bash
DEV=/dev/nvme0n1
MNT=/mnt/btrfs
MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd -o space_cache=v2"
MKFS_OPTIONS="-m single -d single"
THREADS=32
echo "performance" | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
dbench -s -t 600 -D $MNT $THREADS
umount $MNT
The test was run on bare metal, no virtualization, on a box with 12 cores
(Intel i7-8700), 64Gb of RAM and using a NVMe device, with a kernel
configuration that is the default of typical distributions (debian in this
case), without debug options enabled (kasan, kmemleak, slub debug, debug
of page allocations, lock debugging, etc).
Results before this patch:
Operation Count AvgLat MaxLat
----------------------------------------
NTCreateX 4410848 0.017 738.640
Close 3240222 0.001 0.834
Rename 186850 7.478 1272.476
Unlink 890875 0.128 785.018
Deltree 128 2.846 12.081
Mkdir 64 0.002 0.003
Qpathinfo 3997659 0.009 11.171
Qfileinfo 701307 0.001 0.478
Qfsinfo 733494 0.002 1.103
Sfileinfo 359362 0.004 3.266
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.