Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] fs/file.c: add fast path in find_next_fd()

Mateusz Guzik
2024-07-09T10:17:25Z

Right, forgot to respond.

I suspect the different result is either because of mere variance
between reboots or blogbench using significantly less than 100 fds at
any given time -- I don't have an easy way to test at your scale at
the moment. You could probably test that by benching both approaches
while switching them at runtime with a static_branch. However, I don't
know if that effort is warranted atm.

So happens I'm busy with other stuff and it is not my call to either
block or let this in, so I'm buggering off.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 10:32 AM Ma, Yu <yu.ma@intel.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/5/2024 3:56 PM, Ma, Yu wrote:
> > I had something like this in mind:
> >>> diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
> >>> index a3b72aa64f11..4d3307e39db7 100644
> >>> --- a/fs/file.c
> >>> +++ b/fs/file.c
> >>> @@ -489,6 +489,16 @@ static unsigned int find_next_fd(struct fdtable
> >>> *fdt, unsigned int start)
> >>> unsigned int maxfd = fdt->max_fds; /* always multiple of
> >>> BITS_PER_LONG */
> >>> unsigned int maxbit = maxfd / BITS_PER_LONG;
> >>> unsigned int bitbit = start / BITS_PER_LONG;
> >>> + unsigned int bit;
> >>> +
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * Try to avoid looking at the second level map.
> >>> + */
> >>> + bit = find_next_zero_bit(&fdt->open_fds[bitbit], BITS_PER_LONG,
> >>> + start & (BITS_PER_LONG - 1));
> >>> + if (bit < BITS_PER_LONG) {
> >>> + return bit + bitbit * BITS_PER_LONG;
> >>> + }
> >> Drat, you're right. I missed that Ma did not add the proper offset to
> >> open_fds. *This* is what I meant :)
> >>
> >> Honza
> >
> > Just tried this on v6.10-rc6, the improvement on top of patch 1 and
> > patch 2 is 7% for read and 3% for write, less than just check first word.
> >
> > Per my understanding, its performance would be better if we can find
> > free bit in the same word of next_fd with high possibility, but
> > next_fd just represents the lowest possible free bit. If fds are
> > open/close frequently and randomly, that might not always be the case,
> > next_fd may be distributed randomly, for example, 0-65 are occupied,
> > fd=3 is returned, next_fd will be set to 3, next time when 3 is
> > allocated, next_fd will be set to 4, while the actual first free bit
> > is 66 , when 66 is allocated, and fd=5 is returned, then the above
> > process would be went through again.
> >
> > Yu
> >
> Hi Guzik, Honza,
>
> Do we have any more comment or idea regarding to the fast path? Thanks
> for your time and any feedback :)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Yu
>

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