Re: [PATCH RFC] Btrfs: improve multi-thread buffer read

[Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 05:27:59AM -0600, Liu Bo wrote:
> While testing with my buffer read fio jobs[1], I find that btrfs does not
> perform well enough.
> 
> Here is a scenario in fio jobs:
> 
> We have 4 threads, "t1 t2 t3 t4", starting to buffer read a same file,
> and all of them will race on add_to_page_cache_lru(), and if one thread
> successfully puts its page into the page cache, it takes the responsibility
> to read the page's data.
> 
> And what's more, reading a page needs a period of time to finish, in which
> other threads can slide in and process rest pages:
> 
>      t1          t2          t3          t4
>    add Page1
>    read Page1  add Page2
>      |         read Page2  add Page3
>      |            |        read Page3  add Page4
>      |            |           |        read Page4
> -----|------------|-----------|-----------|--------
>      v            v           v           v
>     bio          bio         bio         bio
> 
> Now we have four bios, each of which holds only one page since we need to
> maintain consecutive pages in bio.  Thus, we can end up with far more bios
> than we need.
> 
> Here we're going to
> a) delay the real read-page section and
> b) try to put more pages into page cache.
> 
> With that said, we can make each bio hold more pages and reduce the number
> of bios we need.
> 
> Here is some numbers taken from fio results:
>          w/o patch                 w patch
>        -------------  --------  ---------------
> READ:    745MB/s        +32%       987MB/s
> 

Um, I have this in btrfs-next

Btrfs: use large extent range for read and its endio

that seems to do the same thing, did you not want to do that anymore?  Thanks,

Josef