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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/6] dm snapshot: Improve performance using a more fine-grained locking scheme

Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>



On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Nikos Tsironis wrote:

> dm-snapshot uses a single mutex to serialize every access to the
> snapshot state, including accesses to the exception hash tables. This
> mutex is a bottleneck preventing dm-snapshot to scale as the number of
> threads doing IO increases.
>
> The major contention points are __origin_write()/snapshot_map() and
> pending_complete(), i.e., the submission and completion of pending
> exceptions.
>
> This patchset substitutes the single mutex with:
>
> * A read-write semaphore, which protects the mostly read fields of the
> snapshot structure.
>
> * Per-bucket bit spinlocks, that protect accesses to the exception
> hash tables.
>
> fio benchmarks using the null_blk device show significant performance
> improvements as the number of worker processes increases. Write latency
> is almost halved and write IOPS are nearly doubled.
>
> The relevant patch provides detailed benchmark results.
>
> A summary of the patchset follows:
>
> 1. The first patch removes an unnecessary use of WRITE_ONCE() in
> hlist_add_behind().
>
> 2. The second patch adds two helper functions to linux/list_bl.h,
> which is used to implement the per-bucket bit spinlocks in
> dm-snapshot.
>
> 3. The third patch removes the need to sleep holding the snapshot lock
> in pending_complete(), thus allowing us to replace the mutex with
> the per-bucket bit spinlocks.
>
> 4. Patches 4, 5 and 6 change the locking scheme, as described
> previously.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Don't use WRITE_ONCE() in hlist_bl_add_behind(), as it's not needed.
> - Fix hlist_add_behind() to also not use WRITE_ONCE().
> - Use uintptr_t instead of unsigned long in hlist_bl_add_before().
>
> v2: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2019-March/msg00007.html
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Split third patch of v1 into three patches: 3/5, 4/5, 5/5.
>
> v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2018-December/msg00161.html
>
> Nikos Tsironis (6):
> list: Don't use WRITE_ONCE() in hlist_add_behind()
> list_bl: Add hlist_bl_add_before/behind helpers
> dm snapshot: Don't sleep holding the snapshot lock
> dm snapshot: Replace mutex with rw semaphore
> dm snapshot: Make exception tables scalable
> dm snapshot: Use fine-grained locking scheme
>
> drivers/md/dm-exception-store.h | 3 +-
> drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 359 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> include/linux/list.h | 2 +-
> include/linux/list_bl.h | 26 +++
> 4 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.11.0
>

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