[v4,2/6] btrfs: only let one thread pre-flush delayed refs in commit

Commit Message

Josef Bacik Dec. 17, 2020, 2:35 p.m. UTC

I've been running a stress test that runs 20 workers in their own
subvolume, which are running an fsstress instance with 4 threads per
worker, which is 80 total fsstress threads.  In addition to this I'm
running balance in the background as well as creating and deleting
snapshots.  This test takes around 12 hours to run normally, going
slower and slower as the test goes on.

The reason for this is because fsstress is running fsync sometimes, and
because we're messing with block groups we often fall through to
btrfs_commit_transaction, so will often have 20-30 threads all calling
btrfs_commit_transaction at the same time.

These all get stuck contending on the extent tree while they try to run
delayed refs during the initial part of the commit.

This is suboptimal, really because the extent tree is a single point of
failure we only want one thread acting on that tree at once to reduce
lock contention.  Fix this by making the flushing mechanism a bit
operation, to make it easy to use test_and_set_bit() in order to make
sure only one task does this initial flush.

Once we're into the transaction commit we only have one thread doing
delayed ref running, it's just this initial pre-flush that is
problematic.  With this patch my stress test takes around 90 minutes to
run, instead of 12 hours.

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[e-mail]>
---
 fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h | 12 ++++++------
 fs/btrfs/transaction.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++-----------------
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
index 1c977e6d45dc..6e414785b56f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-ref.h
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@  struct btrfs_delayed_data_ref {
 	u64 offset;
 };
 
+enum btrfs_delayed_ref_flags {
+	/* Used to indicate that we are flushing delayed refs for the commit. */
+	BTRFS_DELAYED_REFS_FLUSHING,
+};
+
 struct btrfs_delayed_ref_root {
 	/* head ref rbtree */
 	struct rb_root_cached href_root;
@@ -158,12 +163,7 @@  struct btrfs_delayed_ref_root {
 
 	u64 pending_csums;
 
-	/*
-	 * set when the tree is flushing before a transaction commit,
-	 * used by the throttling code to decide if new updates need
-	 * to be run right away
-	 */
-	int flushing;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	u64 run_delayed_start;
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index f51f9e39bcee..ccd37fbe5db1 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -909,9 +909,9 @@  bool btrfs_should_end_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans)
 {
 	struct btrfs_transaction *cur_trans = trans->transaction;
 
-	smp_mb();
 	if (cur_trans->state >= TRANS_STATE_COMMIT_START ||
-	    cur_trans->delayed_refs.flushing)
+	    test_bit(BTRFS_DELAYED_REFS_FLUSHING,
+		     &cur_trans->delayed_refs.flags))
 		return true;
 
 	return should_end_transaction(trans);
@@ -2043,23 +2043,22 @@  int btrfs_commit_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans)
 	btrfs_trans_release_metadata(trans);
 	trans->block_rsv = NULL;
 
-	/* make a pass through all the delayed refs we have so far
-	 * any runnings procs may add more while we are here
-	 */
-	ret = btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, 0);
-	if (ret) {
-		btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
-		return ret;
-	}
-
-	cur_trans = trans->transaction;
-
 	/*
-	 * set the flushing flag so procs in this transaction have to
-	 * start sending their work down.
+	 * We only want one transaction commit doing the flushing so we do not
+	 * waste a bunch of time on lock contention on the extent root node.
 	 */
-	cur_trans->delayed_refs.flushing = 1;
-	smp_wmb();
+	if (!test_and_set_bit(BTRFS_DELAYED_REFS_FLUSHING,
+			      &cur_trans->delayed_refs.flags)) {
+		/*
+		 * make a pass through all the delayed refs we have so far
+		 * any runnings procs may add more while we are here
+		 */
+		ret = btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, 0);
+		if (ret) {
+			btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
+			return ret;
+		}
+	}
 
 	btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(trans);