[PATCH] Btrfs: more efficient push_leaf_right

[Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>]

Currently when finding the leaf to insert a key into a btree, if the
leaf doesn't have enough space to store the item we attempt to move
off some items from our leaf to its right neighbor leaf, and if this
fails to create enough free space in our leaf, we try to move off more
items to the left neighbor leaf as well.

When trying to move off items to the right neighbor leaf, if it has
enough room to store the new key but not not enough room to move off
at least one item from our target leaf, __push_leaf_right returns 1 and
we have to attempt to move items to the left neighbor (push_leaf_left
function) without touching the right neighbor leaf.
For the case where the right leaf has enough room to store at least 1
item from our leaf, we end up modifying (and dirtying) both our leaf
and the right leaf. This is non-optimal for the case where the new key
is greater than any key in our target leaf because it can be inserted at
slot 0 of the right neighbor leaf and we don't need to touch our leaf
at all nor to attempt to move off items to the left neighbor leaf.

Therefore this change just selects the right neighbor leaf as our new
target leaf if it has enough room for the new key without modifying our
initial target leaf - we do this only if the new key is higher than any
key in the initial target leaf.

While running the following test, push_leaf_right was called by split_leaf
4802 times. Out of those 4802 calls, for 2571 calls (53.5%) we hit this
special case (right leaf has enough room and new key is higher than any key
in the initial target leaf).

Test:

  sysbench --test=fileio --file-num=512 --file-total-size=5G \
    --file-test-mode=[seqwr|rndwr] --num-threads=512 --file-block-size=8192 \
    --max-requests=100000 --file-io-mode=sync [prepare|run]

Results:

sequential writes

Throughput before this change: 65.71Mb/sec (average of 10 runs)
Throughput after this change:  66.58Mb/sec (average of 10 runs)

random writes

Throughput before this change: 10.75Mb/sec (average of 10 runs)
Throughput after this change:  11.56Mb/sec (average of 10 runs)

Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/ctree.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
index 11f9a18..a57507a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
@@ -3613,6 +3613,19 @@ static int push_leaf_right(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root
 	if (left_nritems == 0)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	if (path->slots[0] == left_nritems && !empty) {
+		/* Key greater than all keys in the leaf, right neighbor has
+		 * enough room for it and we're not emptying our leaf to delete
+		 * it, therefore use right neighbor to insert the new item and
+		 * no need to touch/dirty our left leaft. */
+		btrfs_tree_unlock(left);
+		free_extent_buffer(left);
+		path->nodes[0] = right;
+		path->slots[0] = 0;
+		path->slots[1]++;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	return __push_leaf_right(trans, root, path, min_data_size, empty,
 				right, free_space, left_nritems, min_slot);
 out_unlock:
-- 
1.7.9.5