[PATCH] generic/166: speed up on slow disks

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

generic/166 is takes way too long to run on iscsi disks - over an *hour* on
flash based iscsi targets. In comparison, it takes 18s to run on a pmem device.

The issue is that it takes 3-4s per file write cycle on slow disks, and it does
a thousand write cycles. The problem is taht reflink is so much faster than the
write cycle that it's doing many more snapshots on slow disks than fast
disks, and this slows it down even more.

e.g. the pmem system that takes 18s to run does just under 1000 snapshots -
roughly one per file write. 20 minutes into the iscsi based test, it's only
done ~300 write cycles but there are almost 10,000 snapshots been taken. IOWs,
we're doing 30 snapshots a file write, not ~1.

Fix this by rate limiting snapshots to at most 1 per whole file write. This
reduces the number of snapshots taken on fast devices by ~50% (runtime on pmem
device went from 18s -> 8s) but reduced it to 1000 on slow devices and reduced
runtime from 3671s to just 311s.

Signed-Off-By: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
---
 tests/generic/166 | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/generic/166 b/tests/generic/166
index 8600a133f2d3..9b53307b761c 100755
--- a/tests/generic/166
+++ b/tests/generic/166
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ _scratch_mount >> $seqres.full 2>&1
 
 testdir=$SCRATCH_MNT/test-$seq
 finished_file=/tmp/finished
+do_snapshot=/tmp/snapshot
 rm -rf $finished_file
 mkdir $testdir
 
@@ -68,15 +69,24 @@ _pwrite_byte 0x61 0 $((loops * blksz)) $testdir/file1 >> $seqres.full
 _scratch_cycle_mount
 
 # Snapshot creator...
+#
+# We rate limit the snapshot creator to one snapshot per full file write.  this
+# limits the runtime on slow devices, whilst not substantially reducing the the
+# number of snapshots taken on fast devices.
 snappy() {
 	n=0
 	while [ ! -e $finished_file ]; do
+		if [ ! -e $do_snapshot ]; then
+			sleep 0.01
+			continue;
+		fi
 		out="$(_cp_reflink $testdir/file1 $testdir/snap_$n 2>&1)"
 		res=$?
 		echo "$out" | grep -q "No space left" && break
 		test -n "$out" && echo "$out"
 		test $res -ne 0 && break
 		n=$((n + 1))
+		rm -f $do_snapshot
 	done
 }
 
@@ -84,6 +94,7 @@ echo "Snapshot a file undergoing directio rewrite"
 snappy &
 seq $nr_loops -1 0 | while read i; do
 	_pwrite_byte 0x63 $((i * blksz)) $blksz -d $testdir/file1 >> $seqres.full
+	touch $do_snapshot
 done
 touch $finished_file
 wait
-- 
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