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* qgroup code slowing down rebalance
@ 2016-03-16 20:53 Dave Hansen
  2016-03-17  1:36 ` Qu Wenruo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Dave Hansen @ 2016-03-16 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs, Qu Wenruo, Chris Mason

I have a medium-sized multi-device btrfs filesystem (4 disks, 16TB
total) running under 4.5.0-rc5.  I recently added a disk and needed to
rebalance.  I started a rebalance operation three days ago.  It was on
the order of 20% done after those three days. :)

During this rebalance, the disks were pretty lightly used.  I would see
a small burst of tens of MB/s, then it would go back to no activity for
a few minutes, small burst, no activity, etc...  During the quiet times
(for the disk) one processor would be pegged inside the kernel and would
have virtually no I/O wait time.  Also during this time, the filesystem
was pretty unbearably slow.  An ls of a small directory would hang for
minutes.

A perf profile shows 92% of the cpu time is being spend in
btrfs_find_all_roots(), called under this call path:

	btrfs_commit_transaction
	 -> btrfs_qgroup_prepare_account_extents
	   -> btrfs_find_all_roots

So I tried disabling quotas by doing:

	btrfs quota disable /mnt/foo

which took a few minutes to complete, but once it did, the disks went
back up to doing ~200MB/s, the kernel time went down to ~20%, and the
system now has lots of I/O wait time.  It looks to be behaving nicely.

Is this expected?  From my perspective, it makes quotas pretty much
unusable at least during a rebalance.  I have a full 'perf record'
profile with call graphs if it would be helpful.

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2016-03-18 16:33       ` Dave Hansen
2016-03-21  1:44         ` Qu Wenruo

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