Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] NFSD: Add support for encoding multiple segments

[Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com>]

On 03/17/2015 05:36 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:07:38PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:56:33PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:18:08PM -0400, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>>>> This patch implements sending an array of segments back to the client.
>>>> Clients should be prepared to handle multiple segment reads to make this
>>>> useful.  We try to splice the first data segment into the XDR result,
>>>> and remaining segments are encoded directly.
>>>
>>> I'm still interested in what would happen if we started with an
>>> implementation like:
>>>
>>> 	- if the entire requested range falls within a hole, return that
>>> 	  single hole.
>>> 	- otherwise, just treat the thing as one big data segment.
>>>
>>> That would provide a benefit in the case there are large-ish holes
>>> with minimal impact otherwise.
>>>
>>> (Though patches for full support are still useful even if only for
>>> client-testing purposes.)
>>
>> Also, looks like
>>
>> 	xvs_io -c "fiemap -v" <file>
>>
>> will give hole sizes for a given <file>.  (Thanks, esandeen.)  Running
>> that on a few of my test vm images shows a fair number of large
>> (hundreds of megs) files, which suggests identifying only >=rwsize holes
>> might still be useful.
> 
> Just for fun.... I wrote the following test program and ran it on my
> collection of testing vm's.  Some looked like this:
> 
> 	f21-1.qcow2
> 	144784 -rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 8591507456 Mar 16 10:13 f21-1.qcow2
> 	total hole bytes:      8443252736 (98%)
> 	in aligned 1MB chunks: 8428453888 (98%)
> 
> So, basically, read_plus would save transferring most of the data even
> when only handling 1MB holes.
> 
> But some looked like this:
> 
> 	501524 -rw-------. 1 qemu qemu 8589934592 May 20  2014 rhel6-1-1.img
> 	total hole bytes:      8077516800 (94%)
> 	in aligned 1MB chunks: 0 (0%)
> 
> So the READ_PLUS that caught every hole might save a lot, the one that
> only caught 1MB holes wouldn't help at all.
> 
> And there were lots of examples in between those two extremes.

I tested with three different 512 MB files:  100% data, 100% hole, and alternating every megabyte.  The results were surprising:

      |  v4.1  |  v4.2
-----------------------
data  | 0.685s |  0.714s
hole  | 0.485s | 15.547s
mixed |	1.283s |  0.448

>From what I can tell, the 100% hole case takes so long because of the SEEK_DATA call in nfsd4_encode_read_plus_hole().  I took this out to trick the function into thinking that the entire file was already a hole, and runtime dropped to the levels of v4.1 and v4.2.  I wonder if this is filesystem dependent?  My server is exporting ext4.

Anna
> 
> (But, check my math, I haven't tested this carefully.)
> 
> --b.
> 
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h> 
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <err.h>
> 
> long round_up(long n, long b)
> {
> 	return ((n + b - 1)/b) * b;
> }
> 
> long round_down(long n, long b)
> {
> 	return (n/b) * b;
> }
> 
> long hbytes = 0;
> long rplusbytes = 0;
> 
> do_stats(off_t hole_start, off_t hole_end)
> {
> 	off_t hole_start_up, hole_end_down;
> 
> 	hole_start_up = round_up(hole_start, 1024*1024);
> 	hole_end_down = round_down(hole_end, 1024*1024);
> 
> 	hbytes += hole_end - hole_start;
> 	if (hole_start_up < hole_end_down)
> 		rplusbytes += hole_end_down - hole_start_up;
> }
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> 	off_t hole_start, hole_end;
> 	int fd;
> 	char *name;
> 
> 	/* Map out holes with SEEK_HOLE, SEEK_DATA */
> 	/* Useful statistics:
> 	 * 	- what percentage of file is in holes?
> 	 * 	- what percentage of file would be skipped if we read it
> 	 * 	  sequentially in 1MB chunks?
> 	 */
> 
> 	if (argc != 2)
> 		errx(1, "usage: %s <filename>\n", argv[0]);
> 	name = argv[1];
> 	fd = open(name, O_RDONLY);
> 	if (fd == -1)
> 		err(1, "open");
> 
> 	hole_end = 0;
> 	while (1) {
> 		hole_start = lseek(fd, hole_end, SEEK_HOLE);
> 		if (hole_start == -1)
> 			err(1, "lseek");
> 		hole_end = lseek(fd, hole_start, SEEK_DATA);
> 		if (hole_end == -1) {
> 			if (errno == ENXIO)
> 				break;
> 			err(1, "lseek");
> 		}
> 		do_stats(hole_start, hole_end);
> 	}
> 	hole_end = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> 	do_stats(hole_start, hole_end);
> 	printf("total hole bytes:      %ld (%.0f%)\n", hbytes,
> 				100 * (float)hbytes/hole_end);
> 	printf("in aligned 1MB chunks: %ld (%.0f%)\n", rplusbytes,
> 				100 * (float)rplusbytes/hole_end);
> }
>