Re: Btrfs v0.16 released

[Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 23:17 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 05:00:56PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Btrfs defaults                  57.41 MB/s

Looks like I can get the btrfs defaults up to 64MB/s with some writeback
tweaks.

> > Btrfs dup no csum               74.59 MB/s 
> 
> With duplications checksums seem to be quite costly (CPU bound?)
> 

The async worker threads should be spreading the load across CPUs pretty
well, and even a single CPU could keep up with 100MB/s checksumming.
But, the async worker threads do randomize the IO somewhat because the
IO goes from pdflush -> one worker thread per CPU -> submit_bio.  So,
maybe that 3rd thread is more than the drive can handle?

btrfsck tells me the total size of the btree is only 20MB larger with
checksumming on.

> > Btrfs no duplication            76.83 MB/s
> > Btrfs no dup no csum no inline  76.85 MB/s
> 
> But without duplication they are basically free here at least
> in IO rate. Seems odd?
> 
> Does it compute them twice in the duplication case perhaps?
> 

The duplication happens lower down in the stack, they only get done
once.

-chris