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Use VOP_ADVISE() with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED instead of IO_DIRECT to

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implement not double-caching for reads from vnode-backed md devices.
Use VOP_ADVISE() similarly instead of !IO_DIRECT unsimilarly for writes.
Add a "cache" option to mdconfig to allow changing the default of not
caching.

This depends on a recent commit to fix VOP_ADVISE().  A previous version
had optimizations for sequential i/o's (merge the i/o's and only uncache
for discontiguous i/o's and for full blocks), but optimizations and
knowledge of block boundaries belong in VOP_ADVISE().  Read-ahead should
also be handled better, by supporting it in md and discarding it in
VOP_ADVISE().

POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED is ignored by zfs, but so is IO_DIRECT.

POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED works better than IO_DIRECT if it is not ignored,
since it only discards from the buffer cache immediately, while
IO_DIRECT also discards from the page cache immediately.

IO_DIRECT was not used for writes since it was claimed to be too slow,
but most of the slowness for writes is from doing them synchronously by
default.  Non-synchronous writes still deadlock in many cases.

IO_DIRECT only has a special implementation for ffs reads with DIRECTIO
configured.  Otherwise, if it is not ignored than it uses the buffer and
page caches normally except for discarding everything after each i/o,
and then it has much the same overheads as POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED.  The
overheads for reading with ffs and DIRECTIO were similar in tests of md.

Reviewed by:	kib
This commit is contained in:
Bruce Evans 2018-12-21 08:15:31 +00:00
parent e6f6d8853c
commit 9e5ed8593f
4 changed files with 46 additions and 9 deletions
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28
sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.8
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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd August 28, 2017
.Dd December 21, 2018
.Dt MDCONFIG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -206,6 +206,32 @@ backed devices: avoid
.Dv IO_SYNC
for increased performance but
at the risk of deadlocking the entire kernel.
.It Oo Cm no Oc Ns Cm cache
For
.Cm vnode
backed devices: enable/disable caching of data in system caches.
The default is to not cache.
.Pp
Accesses via the device are converted to accesses via the vnode.
The caching policy for the vnode is used initially.
This is normally to cache.
This caching policy is retained if the
.Cm cache
option is used.
Otherwise, caching is limited
by releasing data from caches soon after each access.
The release has the same semantics as the
.Dv POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED
feature of
.Xr posix_fadvise 2 .
The result is that with normal (non-zfs) caching,
buffers are released from the buffer cache soon after they are constructed,
but their data is kept in the page cache at lower priority.
.Pp
The
.Cm cache
option tends to waste memory by giving unwanted double caching,
but it saves time if there is memory to spare.
.It Oo Cm no Oc Ns Cm reserve
Allocate and reserve all needed storage from the start, rather than as needed.
.It Oo Cm no Oc Ns Cm cluster

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sbin/mdconfig/mdconfig.c
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@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ usage(void)
" mdconfig -l [-v] [-n] [-f file] [-u unit]\n"
" mdconfig file\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\ttype = {malloc, vnode, swap}\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\toption = {cluster, compress, force,\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\toption = {cache, cluster, compress, force,\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\t readonly, reserve, ro, verify}\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\tsize = %%d (512 byte blocks), %%db (B),\n");
fprintf(stderr, "\t\t %%dk (kB), %%dm (MB), %%dg (GB), \n");
@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
mdio.md_options |= MD_ASYNC;
else if (!strcmp(optarg, "noasync"))
mdio.md_options &= ~MD_ASYNC;
else if (!strcmp(optarg, "cache"))
mdio.md_options |= MD_CACHE;
else if (!strcmp(optarg, "nocache"))
mdio.md_options &= ~MD_CACHE;
else if (!strcmp(optarg, "cluster"))
mdio.md_options |= MD_CLUSTER;
else if (!strcmp(optarg, "nocluster"))

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sys/dev/md/md.c
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@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ mdstart_vnode(struct md_s *sc, struct bio *bp)
struct buf *pb;
bus_dma_segment_t *vlist;
struct thread *td;
off_t iolen, len, zerosize;
off_t iolen, iostart, len, zerosize;
int ma_offs, npages;
switch (bp->bio_cmd) {
@ -983,13 +983,10 @@ mdstart_vnode(struct md_s *sc, struct bio *bp)
auio.uio_iov = &aiov;
auio.uio_iovcnt = 1;
}
/*
* When reading set IO_DIRECT to try to avoid double-caching
* the data. When writing IO_DIRECT is not optimal.
*/
iostart = auio.uio_offset;
if (auio.uio_rw == UIO_READ) {
vn_lock(vp, LK_EXCLUSIVE | LK_RETRY);
error = VOP_READ(vp, &auio, IO_DIRECT, sc->cred);
error = VOP_READ(vp, &auio, 0, sc->cred);
VOP_UNLOCK(vp, 0);
} else {
(void) vn_start_write(vp, &mp, V_WAIT);
@ -1002,6 +999,11 @@ mdstart_vnode(struct md_s *sc, struct bio *bp)
sc->flags &= ~MD_VERIFY;
}
/* When MD_CACHE is set, try to avoid double-caching the data. */
if (error == 0 && (sc->flags & MD_CACHE) == 0)
VOP_ADVISE(vp, iostart, auio.uio_offset - 1,
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
if (pb != NULL) {
pmap_qremove((vm_offset_t)pb->b_data, npages);
if (error == 0) {
@ -1464,7 +1466,8 @@ mdcreate_vnode(struct md_s *sc, struct md_req *mdr, struct thread *td)
sc->fwheads = mdr->md_fwheads;
snprintf(sc->ident, sizeof(sc->ident), "MD-DEV%ju-INO%ju",
(uintmax_t)vattr.va_fsid, (uintmax_t)vattr.va_fileid);
sc->flags = mdr->md_options & (MD_FORCE | MD_ASYNC | MD_VERIFY);
sc->flags = mdr->md_options & (MD_ASYNC | MD_CACHE | MD_FORCE |
MD_VERIFY);
if (!(flags & FWRITE))
sc->flags |= MD_READONLY;
sc->vnode = nd.ni_vp;
@ -2184,6 +2187,9 @@ g_md_dumpconf(struct sbuf *sb, const char *indent, struct g_geom *gp,
g_conf_printf_escaped(sb, "%s", mp->file);
sbuf_printf(sb, "</file>\n");
}
if (mp->type == MD_VNODE)
sbuf_printf(sb, "%s<cache>%s</cache>\n", indent,
(mp->flags & MD_CACHE) == 0 ? "off": "on");
sbuf_printf(sb, "%s<label>", indent);
g_conf_printf_escaped(sb, "%s", mp->label);
sbuf_printf(sb, "</label>\n");

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sys/sys/mdioctl.h
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@ -92,5 +92,6 @@ struct md_ioctl {
#define MD_FORCE 0x20 /* Don't try to prevent foot-shooting */
#define MD_ASYNC 0x40 /* Asynchronous mode */
#define MD_VERIFY 0x80 /* Open file with O_VERIFY (vnode only) */
#define MD_CACHE 0x100 /* Cache vnode data */
#endif /* _SYS_MDIOCTL_H_*/