real effect.
Optimize vfs_msync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. Improves looping case by 500%.
Optimize ffs_sync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. This makes a couple of assumptions,
which I believe are ok, in regards to vnode stability when the mount list
mutex is held. Improves looping case by 500%.
(more optimization work is needed on top of these fixes)
MFC after: 1 week
- Move the SPECIAL_FLAG #define up next to the NOHOLDER #define and fix a
little nit that caused it to be defined as -(sizeof (struct thread) + 1)
instead of -2.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
an array "fs_contigdirs[]" to avoid too many directories getting
created in each cylinder group. The memory required for this and
two other arrays (fs_csp[] and fs_maxcluster[]) is allocated with
a single malloc() call, and divided up afterwards. However, the
'space' pointer is not advanced correctly, so fs_contigdirs and
fs_maxcluster end up pointing to the same address.
Add the missing code to advance the 'space' pointer, and remove
an unnecessary update of the pointer that follows.
This is likely to fix the "ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch" panics
that have been reported recently.
Submitted by: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
in got a bit broken, when ufs_extattr_stop() was called and failed,
ufs_extattr_destroy() would panic. This makes the call to destroy()
conditional on the success of stop().
Submitted by: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net>
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
The symptom being treated in 1.98 was to avoid freeing a
pagedep dependency if there was still a newdirblk dependency
referencing it. That change is correct and no longer prints
a warning message when it occurs. The other part of revision
1.98 was to panic when a newdirblk dependency was encountered
during a file truncation. This fix removes that panic and
replaces it with code to find and delete the newdirblk
dependency so that the truncation can succeed.
incorrect due to a missing check for some dependency. This change
avoids the freelist corruption (but not the temporarily inconsistent
state of the file system).
A message is printed as a reminder of the under lying problem when a
pagedep structure is not freed due to the NEWBLOCK flag being set.
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
committed to disk before clearing them. More specifically, when
free_newdirblk is called, we know that the inode claims the new
directory block. However, if the associated pagedep is still linked
onto the directory buffer dependency chain, then some of the entries
on the pd_pendinghd list may not be committed to disk yet. In this
case, we will simply note that the inode claims the block and let
the pd_pendinghd list be processed when the pagedep is next written.
If the pagedep is no longer on the buffer dependency chain, then
all the entries on the pd_pending list are committed to disk and
we can free them in free_newdirblk. This corrects a window of
vulnerability introduced in the code added in version 1.95.
whose name is within that block must ensure not only that the block
containing the file name has been written, but also that the on-disk
directory inode references that block. When a new directory block
is created, we allocate a newdirblk structure which is linked to
the associated allocdirect (on its ad_newdirblk list). When the
allocdirect has been satisfied, the newdirblk structure is moved
to the inodedep id_bufwait list of its directory to await the inode
being written. When the inode is written, the directory entries
are fully committed and can be deleted from their pagedep->id_pendinghd
and inodedep->id_pendinghd lists.
the number of references on the filesystem root vnode to be both
expected and released. Many filesystems hold an extra reference on
the filesystem root vnode, which must be accounted for when
determining if the filesystem is busy and then released if it isn't
busy. The old `skipvp' approach required individual filesystem
xxx_unmount functions to re-implement much of vflush()'s logic to
deal with the root vnode.
All 9 filesystems that hold an extra reference on the root vnode
got the logic wrong in the case of forced unmounts, so `umount -f'
would always fail if there were any extra root vnode references.
Fix this issue centrally in vflush(), now that we can.
This commit also fixes a vnode reference leak in devfs, which could
result in idle devfs filesystems that refuse to unmount.
Reviewed by: phk, bp
that are committed to being freed and reflect these blocks in the
counts returned by statfs (and thus also by the `df' command). This
change allows programs such as those that do news expiration to
know when to stop if they are trying to create a certain percentage
of free space. Note that this change does not solve the much harder
problem of making this to-be-freed space available to applications
that want it (thus on a nearly full filesystem, you may still
encounter out-of-space conditions even though the free space will
show up eventually). Hopefully this harder problem will be the
subject of a future enhancement.
1) Do not assume that the superblock will be of size fs->fs_bsize.
This fixes a panic when taking a snapshot on a filesystem with
a block size bigger than 8K.
2) Properly calculate the number of fragments that follow the
superblock summary information. This fixes a bug with inconsistent
snapshots.
3) When cleaning up a snapshot that is about to be removed, properly
calculate the number of blocks that need to be checked. This fixes
a bug that created partially allocated inodes.
4) When moving blocks from a snapshot that is about to be removed
to another snapshot, properly account for the reduced number of
blocks in the snapshot from which they are taken. This fixes a
bug in which the number of blocks released from a snapshot did not
match the number that it claimed to have.
by the inactive routine. Because the freeing causes the filesystem
to be modified, the close must be held up during periods when the
filesystem is suspended.
For snapshots to be consistent across crashes, they must write
blocks that they copy and claim those written blocks in their
on-disk block pointers before the old blocks that they referenced
can be allowed to be written.
Close a loophole that allowed unwritten blocks to be skipped when
doing ffs_sync with a request to wait for all I/O activity to be
completed.
to struct mount.
This makes the "struct netexport *" paramter to the vfs_export
and vfs_checkexport interface unneeded.
Consequently that all non-stacking filesystems can use
vfs_stdcheckexp().
At the same time, make it a pointer to a struct netexport
in struct mount, so that we can remove the bogus AF_MAX
and #include <net/radix.h> from <sys/mount.h>
fs_contigdirs, fs_avgfilesize and fs_avgfpdir. This could cause
panics if these fields were zeroed while a filesystem was mounted
read-only, and then remounted read-write.
Add code to ffs_reload() which copies the fs_contigdirs pointer
from the previous superblock, and reinitialises fs_avgf* if necessary.
Reviewed by: mckusick
sized blocks. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.bigcgs=1'.
Add debugging option to disable background writes of cylinder
groups. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.dobkgrdwrite=0'.
These debugging options should be tried on systems that are panicing
with corrupted cylinder group maps to see if it makes the problem
go away. The set of panics in question are:
ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch
ffs_nodealloccg: map corrupted
ffs_nodealloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
ffs_alloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccgblk: cyl groups corrupted
ffs_alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
ffs_checkblk: partially free fragment
The following panics are less likely to be related to this problem,
but might be helped by these debugging options:
ffs_valloc: dup alloc
ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
ffs_blkfree: freeing free frag
ffs_vfree: freeing free inode
If you try these options, please report whether they helped reduce your
bitmap corruption panics to Kirk McKusick at <mckusick@mckusick.com>
and to Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>.
It is described in ufs/ffs/fs.h as follows:
/*
* Filesystem flags.
*
* Note that the FS_NEEDSFSCK flag is set and cleared only by the
* fsck utility. It is set when background fsck finds an unexpected
* inconsistency which requires a traditional foreground fsck to be
* run. Such inconsistencies should only be found after an uncorrectable
* disk error. A foreground fsck will clear the FS_NEEDSFSCK flag when
* it has successfully cleaned up the filesystem. The kernel uses this
* flag to enforce that inconsistent filesystems be mounted read-only.
*/
#define FS_UNCLEAN 0x01 /* filesystem not clean at mount */
#define FS_DOSOFTDEP 0x02 /* filesystem using soft dependencies */
#define FS_NEEDSFSCK 0x04 /* filesystem needs sync fsck before mount */
His description of the problem and solution follow. My own tests show
speedups on typical filesystem intensive workloads of 5% to 12% which
is very impressive considering the small amount of code change involved.
------
One day I noticed that some file operations run much faster on
small file systems then on big ones. I've looked at the ffs
algorithms, thought about them, and redesigned the dirpref algorithm.
First I want to describe the results of my tests. These results are old
and I have improved the algorithm after these tests were done. Nevertheless
they show how big the perfomance speedup may be. I have done two file/directory
intensive tests on a two OpenBSD systems with old and new dirpref algorithm.
The first test is "tar -xzf ports.tar.gz", the second is "rm -rf ports".
The ports.tar.gz file is the ports collection from the OpenBSD 2.8 release.
It contains 6596 directories and 13868 files. The test systems are:
1. Celeron-450, 128Mb, two IDE drives, the system at wd0, file system for
test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 8 Gb, number of cg=991,
size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k OpenBSD-current
from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=35
2. PIII-600, 128Mb, two IBM DTLA-307045 IDE drives at i815e, the system
at wd0, file system for test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 40 Gb,
number of cg=5324, size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k
OpenBSD-current from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=50
You can get more info about the test systems and methods at:
http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html
Test Results
tar -xzf ports.tar.gz rm -rf ports
mode old dirpref new dirpref speedup old dirprefnew dirpref speedup
First system
normal 667 472 1.41 477 331 1.44
async 285 144 1.98 130 14 9.29
sync 768 616 1.25 477 334 1.43
softdep 413 252 1.64 241 38 6.34
Second system
normal 329 81 4.06 263.5 93.5 2.81
async 302 25.7 11.75 112 2.26 49.56
sync 281 57.0 4.93 263 90.5 2.9
softdep 341 40.6 8.4 284 4.76 59.66
"old dirpref" and "new dirpref" columns give a test time in seconds.
speedup - speed increasement in times, ie. old dirpref / new dirpref.
------
Algorithm description
The old dirpref algorithm is described in comments:
/*
* Find a cylinder to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to select from
* among those cylinder groups with above the average number of
* free inodes, the one with the smallest number of directories.
*/
A new directory is allocated in a different cylinder groups than its
parent directory resulting in a directory tree that is spreaded across
all the cylinder groups. This spreading out results in a non-optimal
access to the directories and files. When we have a small filesystem
it is not a problem but when the filesystem is big then perfomance
degradation becomes very apparent.
What I mean by a big file system ?
1. A big filesystem is a filesystem which occupy 20-30 or more percent
of total drive space, i.e. first and last cylinder are physically
located relatively far from each other.
2. It has a relatively large number of cylinder groups, for example
more cylinder groups than 50% of the buffers in the buffer cache.
The first results in long access times, while the second results in
many buffers being used by metadata operations. Such operations use
cylinder group blocks and on-disk inode blocks. The cylinder group
block (fs->fs_cblkno) contains struct cg, inode and block bit maps.
It is 2k in size for the default filesystem parameters. If new and
parent directories are located in different cylinder groups then the
system performs more input/output operations and uses more buffers.
On filesystems with many cylinder groups, lots of cache buffers are
used for metadata operations.
My solution for this problem is very simple. I allocate many directories
in one cylinder group. I also do some things, so that the new allocation
method does not cause excessive fragmentation and all directory inodes
will not be located at a location far from its file's inodes and data.
The algorithm is:
/*
* Find a cylinder group to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to allocate a
* directory inode in the same cylinder group as its parent
* directory, but also to reserve space for its files inodes
* and data. Restrict the number of directories which may be
* allocated one after another in the same cylinder group
* without intervening allocation of files.
*
* If we allocate a first level directory then force allocation
* in another cylinder group.
*/
My early versions of dirpref give me a good results for a wide range of
file operations and different filesystem capacities except one case:
those applications that create their entire directory structure first
and only later fill this structure with files.
My solution for such and similar cases is to limit a number of
directories which may be created one after another in the same cylinder
group without intervening file creations. For this purpose, I allocate
an array of counters at mount time. This array is linked to the superblock
fs->fs_contigdirs[cg]. Each time a directory is created the counter
increases and each time a file is created the counter decreases. A 60Gb
filesystem with 8mb/cg requires 10kb of memory for the counters array.
The maxcontigdirs is a maximum number of directories which may be created
without an intervening file creation. I found in my tests that the best
performance occurs when I restrict the number of directories in one cylinder
group such that all its files may be located in the same cylinder group.
There may be some deterioration in performance if all the file inodes
are in the same cylinder group as its containing directory, but their
data partially resides in a different cylinder group. The maxcontigdirs
value is calculated to try to prevent this condition. Since there is
no way to know how many files and directories will be allocated later
I added two optimization parameters in superblock/tunefs. They are:
int32_t fs_avgfilesize; /* expected average file size */
int32_t fs_avgfpdir; /* expected # of files per directory */
These parameters have reasonable defaults but may be tweeked for special
uses of a filesystem. They are only necessary in rare cases like better
tuning a filesystem being used to store a squid cache.
I have been using this algorithm for about 3 months. I have done
a lot of testing on filesystems with different capacities, average
filesize, average number of files per directory, and so on. I think
this algorithm has no negative impact on filesystem perfomance. It
works better than the default one in all cases. The new dirpref
will greatly improve untarring/removing/coping of big directories,
decrease load on cvs servers and much more. The new dirpref doesn't
speedup a compilation process, but also doesn't slow it down.
Obtained from: Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>
(as is done in unmount).
Remove a snapshot inode from the superblock list when its last
name goes away rather than when its last reference goes away.
That way it will be properly reclaimed by fsck after a crash
rather than reenabled when the filesystem is mounted.
options UFS_EXTATTR and UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART respectively. This change
reflects the fact that our EA support is implemented entirely at the
UFS layer (modulo FFS start/stop/autostart hooks for mount and unmount
events). This also better reflects the fact that [shortly] MFS will also
support EAs, as well as possibly IFS.
o Consumers of the EA support in FFS are reminded that as a result, they
must change kernel config files to reflect the new option names.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
