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Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] btrfs: async discard support To: Dennis Zhou , Chris Mason , Omar Sandoval , David Sterba , Josef Bacik Cc: kernel-team@fb.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org References: From: Nikolay Borisov Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=nborisov@suse.com; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= mQINBFiKBz4BEADNHZmqwhuN6EAzXj9SpPpH/nSSP8YgfwoOqwrP+JR4pIqRK0AWWeWCSwmZ T7g+RbfPFlmQp+EwFWOtABXlKC54zgSf+uulGwx5JAUFVUIRBmnHOYi/lUiE0yhpnb1KCA7f u/W+DkwGerXqhhe9TvQoGwgCKNfzFPZoM+gZrm+kWv03QLUCr210n4cwaCPJ0Nr9Z3c582xc bCUVbsjt7BN0CFa2BByulrx5xD9sDAYIqfLCcZetAqsTRGxM7LD0kh5WlKzOeAXj5r8DOrU2 GdZS33uKZI/kZJZVytSmZpswDsKhnGzRN1BANGP8sC+WD4eRXajOmNh2HL4P+meO1TlM3GLl EQd2shHFY0qjEo7wxKZI1RyZZ5AgJnSmehrPCyuIyVY210CbMaIKHUIsTqRgY5GaNME24w7h TyyVCy2qAM8fLJ4Vw5bycM/u5xfWm7gyTb9V1TkZ3o1MTrEsrcqFiRrBY94Rs0oQkZvunqia c+NprYSaOG1Cta14o94eMH271Kka/reEwSZkC7T+o9hZ4zi2CcLcY0DXj0qdId7vUKSJjEep c++s8ncFekh1MPhkOgNj8pk17OAESanmDwksmzh1j12lgA5lTFPrJeRNu6/isC2zyZhTwMWs k3LkcTa8ZXxh0RfWAqgx/ogKPk4ZxOXQEZetkEyTFghbRH2BIwARAQABtCNOaWtvbGF5IEJv cmlzb3YgPG5ib3Jpc292QHN1c2UuY29tPokCOAQTAQIAIgUCWIo48QIbAwYLCQgHAwIGFQgC CQoLBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQcb6CRuU/KFc0eg/9GLD3wTQz9iZHMFbjiqTCitD7B6dTLV1C ddZVlC8Hm/TophPts1bWZORAmYIihHHI1EIF19+bfIr46pvfTu0yFrJDLOADMDH+Ufzsfy2v HSqqWV/nOSWGXzh8bgg/ncLwrIdEwBQBN9SDS6aqsglagvwFD91UCg/TshLlRxD5BOnuzfzI Leyx2c6YmH7Oa1R4MX9Jo79SaKwdHt2yRN3SochVtxCyafDlZsE/efp21pMiaK1HoCOZTBp5 VzrIP85GATh18pN7YR9CuPxxN0V6IzT7IlhS4Jgj0NXh6vi1DlmKspr+FOevu4RVXqqcNTSS E2rycB2v6cttH21UUdu/0FtMBKh+rv8+yD49FxMYnTi1jwVzr208vDdRU2v7Ij/TxYt/v4O8 V+jNRKy5Fevca/1xroQBICXsNoFLr10X5IjmhAhqIH8Atpz/89ItS3+HWuE4BHB6RRLM0gy8 T7rN6ja+KegOGikp/VTwBlszhvfLhyoyjXI44Tf3oLSFM+8+qG3B7MNBHOt60CQlMkq0fGXd mm4xENl/SSeHsiomdveeq7cNGpHi6i6ntZK33XJLwvyf00PD7tip/GUj0Dic/ZUsoPSTF/mG EpuQiUZs8X2xjK/AS/l3wa4Kz2tlcOKSKpIpna7V1+CMNkNzaCOlbv7QwprAerKYywPCoOSC 7P25Ag0EWIoHPgEQAMiUqvRBZNvPvki34O/dcTodvLSyOmK/MMBDrzN8Cnk302XfnGlW/YAQ csMWISKKSpStc6tmD+2Y0z9WjyRqFr3EGfH1RXSv9Z1vmfPzU42jsdZn667UxrRcVQXUgoKg QYx055Q2FdUeaZSaivoIBD9WtJq/66UPXRRr4H/+Y5FaUZx+gWNGmBT6a0S/GQnHb9g3nonD jmDKGw+YO4P6aEMxyy3k9PstaoiyBXnzQASzdOi39BgWQuZfIQjN0aW+Dm8kOAfT5i/yk59h VV6v3NLHBjHVw9kHli3jwvsizIX9X2W8tb1SefaVxqvqO1132AO8V9CbE1DcVT8fzICvGi42 FoV/k0QOGwq+LmLf0t04Q0csEl+h69ZcqeBSQcIMm/Ir+NorfCr6HjrB6lW7giBkQl6hhomn l1mtDP6MTdbyYzEiBFcwQD4terc7S/8ELRRybWQHQp7sxQM/Lnuhs77MgY/e6c5AVWnMKd/z MKm4ru7A8+8gdHeydrRQSWDaVbfy3Hup0Ia76J9FaolnjB8YLUOJPdhI2vbvNCQ2ipxw3Y3c KhVIpGYqwdvFIiz0Fej7wnJICIrpJs/+XLQHyqcmERn3s/iWwBpeogrx2Lf8AGezqnv9woq7 OSoWlwXDJiUdaqPEB/HmGfqoRRN20jx+OOvuaBMPAPb+aKJyle8zABEBAAGJAh8EGAECAAkF AliKBz4CGwwACgkQcb6CRuU/KFdacg/+M3V3Ti9JYZEiIyVhqs+yHb6NMI1R0kkAmzsGQ1jU zSQUz9AVMR6T7v2fIETTT/f5Oout0+Hi9cY8uLpk8CWno9V9eR/B7Ifs2pAA8lh2nW43FFwp IDiSuDbH6oTLmiGCB206IvSuaQCp1fed8U6yuqGFcnf0ZpJm/sILG2ECdFK9RYnMIaeqlNQm iZicBY2lmlYFBEaMXHoy+K7nbOuizPWdUKoKHq+tmZ3iA+qL5s6Qlm4trH28/fPpFuOmgP8P K+7LpYLNSl1oQUr+WlqilPAuLcCo5Vdl7M7VFLMq4xxY/dY99aZx0ZJQYFx0w/6UkbDdFLzN upT7NIN68lZRucImffiWyN7CjH23X3Tni8bS9ubo7OON68NbPz1YIaYaHmnVQCjDyDXkQoKC R82Vf9mf5slj0Vlpf+/Wpsv/TH8X32ajva37oEQTkWNMsDxyw3aPSps6MaMafcN7k60y2Wk/ TCiLsRHFfMHFY6/lq/c0ZdOsGjgpIK0G0z6et9YU6MaPuKwNY4kBdjPNBwHreucrQVUdqRRm RcxmGC6ohvpqVGfhT48ZPZKZEWM+tZky0mO7bhZYxMXyVjBn4EoNTsXy1et9Y1dU3HVJ8fod 5UqrNrzIQFbdeM0/JqSLrtlTcXKJ7cYFa9ZM2AP7UIN9n1UWxq+OPY9YMOewVfYtL8M= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:49:20 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org On 7.10.19 г. 23:17 ч., Dennis Zhou wrote: > Hello, > > > With async discard, we try to emphasize discarding larger regions > and reusing the lba (implicit discard). The first is done by using the > free space cache to maintain discard state and thus allows us to get > coalescing for fairly cheap. A background workqueue is used to scan over > an LRU kept list of the block groups. It then uses filters to determine > what to discard next hence giving priority to larger discards. While > reusing an lba isn't explicitly attempted, it happens implicitly via > find_free_extent() which if it happens to find a dirty extent, will > grant us reuse of the lba. Additionally, async discarding skips metadata By 'dirty' I assume you mean not-discarded-yet-but-free extent? > block groups as these should see a fairly high turnover as btrfs is a > self-packing filesystem being stingy with allocating new block groups > until necessary. > > Preliminary results seem promising as when a lot of freeing is going on, > the discarding is delayed allowing for reuse which translates to less > discarding (in addition to the slower discarding). This has shown a > reduction in p90 and p99 read latencies on a test on our webservers. > > I am currently working on tuning the rate at which it discards in the > background. I am doing this by evaluating other workloads and drives. > The iops and bps rate limits are fairly aggressive right now as my > basic survey of a few drives noted that the trim command itself is a > significant part of the overhead. So optimizing for larger trims is the > right thing to do. Do you intend on sharing performance results alongside the workloads used to obtain them? Since this is a performance improvement patch in its core that is of prime importance! > > > Thanks, > Dennis >