Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] iomap: some minor non-critical fixes and improvements when block size < folio size

Dave Chinner
2024-08-14T05:16:08Z

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 11:57:03AM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> On 2024/8/14 10:47, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:14:01AM +0800, Zhang Yi wrote:
> >> On 2024/8/14 9:49, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >>> important to know if the changes made actually provided the benefit
> >>> we expected them to make....
> >>>
> >>> i.e. this is the sort of table of results I'd like to see provided:
> >>>
> >>> platform base v1 v2
> >>> x86 524708.0 569218.0 ????
> >>> arm64 801965.0 871605.0 ????
> >>>
> >>
> >> platform base v1 v2
> >> x86 524708.0 571315.0 569218.0
> >> arm64 801965.0 876077.0 871605.0
> >
> > So avoiding the lock cycle in iomap_write_begin() (in patch 5) in
> > this partial block write workload made no difference to performance
> > at all, and removing a lock cycle in iomap_write_end provided all
> > that gain?
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > Is this an overwrite workload or a file extending workload? The
> > result implies that iomap_block_needs_zeroing() is returning false,
> > hence it's an overwrite workload and it's reading partial blocks
> > from disk. i.e. it is doing synchronous RMW cycles from the ramdisk
> > and so still calling the uptodate bitmap update function rather than
> > hitting the zeroing case and skipping it.
> >
> > Hence I'm just trying to understand what the test is doing because
> > that tells me what the result should be...
> >
>
> I forgot to mentioned that I test this on xfs with 1K block size, this
> is a simple case of block size < folio size that I can direct use
> UnixBench.

OK. So it's an even more highly contrived microbenchmark than I
thought. :/

What is the impact on a 4kB block size filesystem running that same
1kB write test? That's going to be a far more common thing to occur
in production machines for such small IO, let's make sure that we
haven't regressed that case in optimising for this one.

> This test first do buffered append write with bs=1K,count=2000 in the
> first round, and then do overwrite from the start position with the same
> parameters repetitively in 30 seconds. All the write operations are
> block size aligned, so iomap_write_begin() just continue after
> iomap_adjust_read_range(), don't call iomap_set_range_uptodate() to set
> range uptodate originally, hence there is no difference whether with or
> without patch 5 in this test case.

Ok, so you really need to come up with an equivalent test that
exercises the paths that patch 5 modifies, because right now we have
no real idea of what the impact of that change will be...

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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