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Substitute the global locking scheme with a fine grained one, employing the read-write semaphore and the scalable exception tables with per-bucket locks introduced by the previous two commits. Summarizing, we now use a read-write semaphore to protect the mostly read fields of the snapshot structure, e.g., valid, active, etc., and per-bucket bit spinlocks to protect accesses to the complete and pending exception tables. Finally, we use an extra spinlock (pe_allocation_lock) to serialize the allocation of new exceptions by the exception store. This allocation is really fast, so the extra spinlock doesn't hurt the performance. This scheme allows dm-snapshot to scale better, resulting in increased IOPS and reduced latency. Following are some benchmark results using the null_blk device: modprobe null_blk gb=1024 bs=512 submit_queues=8 hw_queue_depth=4096 \ queue_mode=2 irqmode=1 completion_nsec=1 nr_devices=1 * Benchmark fio_origin_randwrite_throughput_N, from the device mapper test suite [1] (direct IO, random 4K writes to origin device, IO engine libaio): +--------------+-------------+------------+ | # of workers | IOPS Before | IOPS After | +--------------+-------------+------------+ | 1 | 57708 | 66421 | | 2 | 63415 | 77589 | | 4 | 67276 | 98839 | | 8 | 60564 | 109258 | +--------------+-------------+------------+ * Benchmark fio_origin_randwrite_latency_N, from the device mapper test suite [1] (direct IO, random 4K writes to origin device, IO engine psync): +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ | # of workers | Latency (usec) Before | Latency (usec) After | +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ | 1 | 16.25 | 13.27 | | 2 | 31.65 | 25.08 | | 4 | 55.28 | 41.08 | | 8 | 121.47 | 74.44 | +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ * Benchmark fio_snapshot_randwrite_throughput_N, from the device mapper test suite [1] (direct IO, random 4K writes to snapshot device, IO engine libaio): +--------------+-------------+------------+ | # of workers | IOPS Before | IOPS After | +--------------+-------------+------------+ | 1 | 72593 | 84938 | | 2 | 97379 | 134973 | | 4 | 90610 | 143077 | | 8 | 90537 | 180085 | +--------------+-------------+------------+ * Benchmark fio_snapshot_randwrite_latency_N, from the device mapper test suite [1] (direct IO, random 4K writes to snapshot device, IO engine psync): +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ | # of workers | Latency (usec) Before | Latency (usec) After | +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ | 1 | 12.53 | 10.6 | | 2 | 19.78 | 14.89 | | 4 | 40.37 | 23.47 | | 8 | 89.32 | 48.48 | +--------------+-----------------------+----------------------+ [1] https://github.com/jthornber/device-mapper-test-suite Co-developed-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com> Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com> Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.