btrfs: track delayed ref heads in an xarray
Currently we use a red black tree (rb-tree) to track the delayed ref heads (in struct btrfs_delayed_ref_root::href_root). This however is not very efficient when the number of delayed ref heads is large (and it's very common to be at least in the order of thousands) since rb-trees are binary trees. For example for 10K delayed ref heads, the tree has a depth of 13. Besides that, inserting into the tree requires navigating through it and pulling useless cache lines in the process since the red black tree nodes are embedded within the delayed ref head structure - on the other hand, by being embedded, it requires no extra memory allocations. We can improve this by using an xarray instead which has a much higher branching factor than a red black tree (binary balanced tree) and is more cache friendly and behaves like a resizable array, with a much better search and insertion complexity than a red black tree. This only has one small disadvantage which is that insertion will sometimes require allocating memory for the xarray - which may fail (not that often since it uses a kmem_cache) - but on the other hand we can reduce the delayed ref head structure size by 24 bytes (from 152 down to 128 bytes) after removing the embedded red black tree node, meaning than we can now fit 32 delayed ref heads per 4K page instead of 26, and that gain compensates for the occasional memory allocations needed for the xarray nodes. We also end up using only 2 cache lines instead of 3 per delayed ref head. Running the following fs_mark test showed some improvements: $ cat test.sh #!/bin/bash DEV=/dev/nullb0 MNT=/mnt/nullb0 MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd" FILES=100000 THREADS=$(nproc --all) echo "performance" | \ tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT OPTS="-S 0 -L 5 -n $FILES -s 0 -t $THREADS -k" for ((i = 1; i <= $THREADS; i++)); do OPTS="$OPTS -d $MNT/d$i" done fs_mark $OPTS umount $MNT Before this patch: FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead 10 1200000 0 171845.7 12253839 16 2400000 0 230898.7 12308254 23 3600000 0 212292.9 12467768 30 4800000 0 195737.8 12627554 46 6000000 0 171055.2 12783329 After this patch: FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead 10 1200000 0 173835.0 12246131 16 2400000 0 233537.8 12271746 23 3600000 0 220398.7 12307737 30 4800000 0 204483.6 12392318 40 6000000 0 182923.3 12771843 Reviewed-by:Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Reviewed-by:
Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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