Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Create large folios in iomap buffered write path

[Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>]

Hi,

> Commit ebb7fb1557b1 limited the length of ioend chains to 4096 entries
> to improve worst-case latency.  Unfortunately, this had the effect of
> limiting the performance of:
> 
> fio -name write-bandwidth -rw=write -bs=1024Ki -size=32Gi -runtime=30 \
>         -iodepth 1 -ioengine sync -zero_buffers=1 -direct=0 -end_fsync=1 \
>         -numjobs=4 -directory=/mnt/test
> 
> The problem ends up being lock contention on the i_pages spinlock as we
> clear the writeback bit on each folio (and propagate that up through
> the tree).  By using larger folios, we decrease the number of folios
> to be processed by a factor of 256 for this benchmark, eliminating the
> lock contention.
> 
> It's also the right thing to do.  This is a project that has been on
> the back burner for years, it just hasn't been important enough to do
> before now.
> 
> I think it's probably best if this goes through the iomap tree since
> the changes outside iomap are either to the page cache or they're
> trivial.
> 
> v3:
>  - Fix the handling of compound highmem pages in copy_page_from_iter_atomic()
>  - Rename fgp_t to fgf_t
>  - Clarify some wording in the documentation

This v3 patches broken linux 6.4-rc7.

fstests(btrfs/007 and more) will fail with the v3 patches .
but it works well without the v3 patches.

Best Regards
Wang Yugui (wangyugui@e16-tech.com)
2023/06/21

> v2:
>  - Fix misplaced semicolon
>  - Rename fgp_order to fgp_set_order
>  - Rename FGP_ORDER to FGP_GET_ORDER
>  - Add fgp_t
>  - Update the documentation for ->release_folio
>  - Fix iomap_invalidate_folio()
>  - Update iomap_release_folio()
> 
> Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (8):
>   iov_iter: Handle compound highmem pages in
>     copy_page_from_iter_atomic()
>   iomap: Remove large folio handling in iomap_invalidate_folio()
>   doc: Correct the description of ->release_folio
>   iomap: Remove unnecessary test from iomap_release_folio()
>   filemap: Add fgf_t typedef
>   filemap: Allow __filemap_get_folio to allocate large folios
>   iomap: Create large folios in the buffered write path
>   iomap: Copy larger chunks from userspace
> 
>  Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 15 ++++--
>  fs/btrfs/file.c                       |  6 +--
>  fs/f2fs/compress.c                    |  2 +-
>  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h                        |  2 +-
>  fs/gfs2/bmap.c                        |  2 +-
>  fs/iomap/buffered-io.c                | 43 ++++++++--------
>  include/linux/iomap.h                 |  2 +-
>  include/linux/pagemap.h               | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  lib/iov_iter.c                        | 43 ++++++++++------
>  mm/filemap.c                          | 61 ++++++++++++-----------
>  mm/folio-compat.c                     |  2 +-
>  mm/readahead.c                        | 13 -----
>  12 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 103 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2