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=unavailable 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 A15D0C433E0 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 17:06:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7741220721 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 17:06:33 +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="g9jlowS4" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2405496AbgE1RGb (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 13:06:31 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:38352 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2405416AbgE1RGX (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2020 13:06:23 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x642.google.com (mail-pl1-x642.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::642]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08C67C08C5C6 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x642.google.com with SMTP id bg4so6527452plb.3 for ; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:23 -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=iT5rezqL21tlOm+HcQxeqnOcsO/zlgv0oQIuL0r2Tvk=; b=g9jlowS4x5LkXCCyzKW89bhZzpd8BmLxl9gYLan/bQnsd4kg9oEfQ1ib63qh6qedJx zMquSBlwzNj27Yybfr6wpm/mgDZNKRYXWB4heMU2A8oQeETetFue6n8M8vOajW/EREh3 y/VoYy/8DeejrqHoYxiCO0diBZD6emWH/e+FFADqui9G6uA2H7i5NqxGQdgiOLTRtRHY VUMYBYaFSdXRk9WpBqRdWn7kMeaoZ6QqrLiDs0GF6vAy0Qa4ZYlRPKXzkOkN9pXMftlO m4cLOwJ2s5TdWy5IyidY3LlpO8YGSaI6OhehiDw2S2sbM3gZmPUC+q7WoeHVMu5R6Hh9 FQ2w== 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=iT5rezqL21tlOm+HcQxeqnOcsO/zlgv0oQIuL0r2Tvk=; b=E0tXFM1Wd9swuH6ywLmbXvI15yTX8/5DKEtLuk6qVr53DChMfnehnet6zDIQDFaIHg E4Nqt/AzmJ99tHiq6uHjGyxOVkalZvlL4muLt4q3uLPxP0vxhbkGCs/xlM2qlh1brGOZ +nkzY5WJC6pnl8SEQvlrXTA26j7bzZTYEnoImXX3OSY9wBH8PH5PNIfwQeo/guxXPPFs br+FYqh434/U8BOTSASrRV/XfzI1OPQ5Y/G/hF/EOfLFSHg3hwSflM6KTBtjen+UIXqX /WDJFucGLgfFcyLq9GlC+mUrjYubVG+yW+K89pbcPSFpfjaWUhGcjVM7ZgBfX5L2xVWU Jf1w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533fBS//Hop7SF0EemDijuEpa5pTDMUPXdeM1sclDpUjd6of7xyh cW7YYrAGUFbgb1IrvH7+Msp9ww== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzBQtX9IkxbTiq9LQQhfAIkNAs+QMc7PlP4FZdv+BJKB7P+GdnfDGUw875LRqPUpzLnyZOlSA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90a:8814:: with SMTP id s20mr4988444pjn.74.1590685582354; Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.159] ([65.144.74.34]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2sm4768862pgp.56.2020.05.28.10.06.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:21 -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 11:06:20 -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-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > Do I need a special boot-parameter (GRUB line)? > > Do I need to activate some cool variables via sysfs? > > Do I need to pass an option via fstab entry? No to all of these, you don't need anything to activate it. You need the program to use io_uring to do buffered reads. > Are any Async Buffer Reads related linux-kconfig options not set? > Which make sense? No kconfig options are needed. -- Jens Axboe