From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9A6C433DF for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 17:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D6A20721 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 17:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.i=@kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com header.b="F7LTjjfA" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2405358AbgE1RO4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 13:14:56 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39688 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2405335AbgE1ROz (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 13:14:55 -0400 Received: from mail-pj1-x1042.google.com (mail-pj1-x1042.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::1042]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2ECCFC08C5C8 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pj1-x1042.google.com with SMTP id z15so2290979pjb.0 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:14:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel-dk.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mTrbZNR8Zw2bMCtvn88e5CLJgJyltUs0UJYDwI4z6zA=; b=F7LTjjfAl5IaK7NnHh5FAPCqT2WkR8FlKsddgFAAphw6ED1AseXvigpv8UfgBj1nGj wmoECd117Aw4JMgQMFss2bCtx6Sh0+s9nAF1+6jUy8yIWz+lQNlUwYDPfQ1qPNea0bNh XVoV5cLLeMKyFtyd1byeZ3MuS0ArsPq30ort7StmNreonCY+hwmXZeuRFKTlPpNdZyau Gmnk6093J7O5sX/9x8pb5ARB6Ir1MN9SRWKWK37Xc/TJUJ1+lOwCKtr8ndy6BE6KO/HV q0RvHllZc6kmcA+Q719fGVrp5bwyOVbNSI2PFbC7ZXFfcqdzjKd8L8QggcxTVAj6l9Dx +GFQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=mTrbZNR8Zw2bMCtvn88e5CLJgJyltUs0UJYDwI4z6zA=; b=Swi5WSWlg/M21G53DFDZFSX9Nj4R6hLozOcUCIHY0sDiRkDwegWSntAn42td3Bfepg H+7Irpm3n2f0d2AQ3UCQ7awcVJxu9FbKmrDgnMVxj3kIZ6xiH5ZZJG/uAxfKx0/W0nf/ Ecm69FqY5aAZXXWOcDhdE5HJb6R628dCqdKHfk4R07tl43osvW29R56Gr3ncAee11VnB ofC7KQU30elzciHZZr0cm+tWHpPDv8YkTeF3AgZWydM4ircwGT4ox1iMS1Hn0Y4bGtXP w78RCt2LYGcFda3T9eIaFnZSR3GGb6Kdf5vt6WdafKTaDjnLVSWPK64w3YXtllkFkwWx +2DA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533hj9LgYuaNNZj2Oy8UPCaRg3sNozUKo/uqR7WHzXvoptyBXk89 zmD2ZSzT22PYRmtsTMgywFOBlQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyjsxFsx6BuD+kv/XrY3yZGUMEPgE8RKLMKN0gcI9ykVdwgJ97ySsoaV+D9uNKGT3HGHlPjxg== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:6943:: with SMTP id k3mr4525890plt.81.1590686094433; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:14:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.159] ([65.144.74.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t201sm2202482pfc.104.2020.05.28.10.14.53 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 May 2020 10:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCHSET v5 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com Cc: io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org References: <20200526195123.29053-1-axboe@kernel.dk> From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 11:14:52 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On 5/28/20 11:12 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:06 PM Jens Axboe wrote: >> >> On 5/28/20 11:02 AM, Sedat Dilek wrote: >>> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:59 PM Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> >>>> We technically support this already through io_uring, but it's >>>> implemented with a thread backend to support cases where we would >>>> block. This isn't ideal. >>>> >>>> After a few prep patches, the core of this patchset is adding support >>>> for async callbacks on page unlock. With this primitive, we can simply >>>> retry the IO operation. With io_uring, this works a lot like poll based >>>> retry for files that support it. If a page is currently locked and >>>> needed, -EIOCBQUEUED is returned with a callback armed. The callers >>>> callback is responsible for restarting the operation. >>>> >>>> With this callback primitive, we can add support for >>>> generic_file_buffered_read(), which is what most file systems end up >>>> using for buffered reads. XFS/ext4/btrfs/bdev is wired up, but probably >>>> trivial to add more. >>>> >>>> The file flags support for this by setting FMODE_BUF_RASYNC, similar >>>> to what we do for FMODE_NOWAIT. Open to suggestions here if this is >>>> the preferred method or not. >>>> >>>> In terms of results, I wrote a small test app that randomly reads 4G >>>> of data in 4K chunks from a file hosted by ext4. The app uses a queue >>>> depth of 32. If you want to test yourself, you can just use buffered=1 >>>> with ioengine=io_uring with fio. No application changes are needed to >>>> use the more optimized buffered async read. >>>> >>>> preadv for comparison: >>>> real 1m13.821s >>>> user 0m0.558s >>>> sys 0m11.125s >>>> CPU ~13% >>>> >>>> Mainline: >>>> real 0m12.054s >>>> user 0m0.111s >>>> sys 0m5.659s >>>> CPU ~32% + ~50% == ~82% >>>> >>>> This patchset: >>>> real 0m9.283s >>>> user 0m0.147s >>>> sys 0m4.619s >>>> CPU ~52% >>>> >>>> The CPU numbers are just a rough estimate. For the mainline io_uring >>>> run, this includes the app itself and all the threads doing IO on its >>>> behalf (32% for the app, ~1.6% per worker and 32 of them). Context >>>> switch rate is much smaller with the patchset, since we only have the >>>> one task performing IO. >>>> >>>> Also ran a simple fio based test case, varying the queue depth from 1 >>>> to 16, doubling every time: >>>> >>>> [buf-test] >>>> filename=/data/file >>>> direct=0 >>>> ioengine=io_uring >>>> norandommap >>>> rw=randread >>>> bs=4k >>>> iodepth=${QD} >>>> randseed=89 >>>> runtime=10s >>>> >>>> QD/Test Patchset IOPS Mainline IOPS >>>> 1 9046 8294 >>>> 2 19.8k 18.9k >>>> 4 39.2k 28.5k >>>> 8 64.4k 31.4k >>>> 16 65.7k 37.8k >>>> >>>> Outside of my usual environment, so this is just running on a virtualized >>>> NVMe device in qemu, using ext4 as the file system. NVMe isn't very >>>> efficient virtualized, so we run out of steam at ~65K which is why we >>>> flatline on the patched side (nvme_submit_cmd() eats ~75% of the test app >>>> CPU). Before that happens, it's a linear increase. Not shown is context >>>> switch rate, which is massively lower with the new code. The old thread >>>> offload adds a blocking thread per pending IO, so context rate quickly >>>> goes through the roof. >>>> >>>> The goal here is efficiency. Async thread offload adds latency, and >>>> it also adds noticable overhead on items such as adding pages to the >>>> page cache. By allowing proper async buffered read support, we don't >>>> have X threads hammering on the same inode page cache, we have just >>>> the single app actually doing IO. >>>> >>>> Been beating on this and it's solid for me, and I'm now pretty happy >>>> with how it all turned out. Not aware of any missing bits/pieces or >>>> code cleanups that need doing. >>>> >>>> Series can also be found here: >>>> >>>> https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=async-buffered.5 >>>> >>>> or pull from: >>>> >>>> git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block async-buffered.5 >>>> >>> >>> Hi Jens, >>> >>> I have pulled linux-block.git#async-buffered.5 on top of Linux v5.7-rc7. >>> >>> From first feelings: >>> The booting into the system (until sddm display-login-manager) took a >>> bit longer. >>> The same after login and booting into KDE/Plasma. >> >> There is no difference for "regular" use cases, only io_uring with >> buffered reads will behave differently. So I don't think you have longer >> boot times due to this. >> >>> I am building/linking with LLVM/Clang/LLD v10.0.1-rc1 on Debian/testing AMD64. >>> >>> Here I have an internal HDD (SATA) and my Debian-system is on an >>> external HDD connected via USB-3.0. >>> Primarily, I use Ext4-FS. >>> >>> As said above is the "emotional" side, but I need some technical instructions. >>> >>> How can I see Async Buffer Reads is active on a Ext4-FS-formatted partition? >> >> You can't see that. It'll always be available on ext4 with this series, >> and you can watch io_uring instances to see if anyone is using it. >> > > Thanks for answering my questions. > > How can I "watch io_uring instances"? You can enable io_uring tracing: # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/io_uring/io_uring_create/enable # tail /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace and see if you get any events for setup. Generally you can also look for the existence of io_wq_manager processes, these will exist for an io_uring instance. > FIO? > Debian has fio version 3.19-2 in its apt repositories. > Version OK? Yeah that should work. -- Jens Axboe