Ritesh Harjani (IBM) 4ce02c6797 iomap: Add per-block dirty state tracking to improve performance
When filesystem blocksize is less than folio size (either with
mapping_large_folio_support() or with blocksize < pagesize) and when the
folio is uptodate in pagecache, then even a byte write can cause
an entire folio to be written to disk during writeback. This happens
because we currently don't have a mechanism to track per-block dirty
state within struct iomap_folio_state. We currently only track uptodate
state.

This patch implements support for tracking per-block dirty state in
iomap_folio_state->state bitmap. This should help improve the filesystem
write performance and help reduce write amplification.

Performance testing of below fio workload reveals ~16x performance
improvement using nvme with XFS (4k blocksize) on Power (64K pagesize)
FIO reported write bw scores improved from around ~28 MBps to ~452 MBps.

1. <test_randwrite.fio>
[global]
	ioengine=psync
	rw=randwrite
	overwrite=1
	pre_read=1
	direct=0
	bs=4k
	size=1G
	dir=./
	numjobs=8
	fdatasync=1
	runtime=60
	iodepth=64
	group_reporting=1

[fio-run]

2. Also our internal performance team reported that this patch improves
   their database workload performance by around ~83% (with XFS on Power)

Reported-by: Aravinda Herle <araherle@in.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
2023-07-25 10:55:56 +05:30
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2023-07-23 15:24:10 -07:00

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