[PATCH v5 2/2] ext4: Make cache hits/misses per-cpu counts

From: Waiman Long
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 12:29:59 EST


This patch changes the es_stats_cache_hits and es_stats_cache_misses
statistics counts to percpu counters to reduce cacheline contention
issues whem multiple threads are trying to update those counts
simultaneously.

With a 38-threads fio I/O test with 2 shared files (on DAX-mount
NVDIMM) running on a 4-socket Haswell-EX server with 4.6-rc1 kernel,
the aggregated bandwidths before and after the patch were:

Test W/O patch With patch % change
---- --------- ---------- --------
Read-only 16499MB/s 17215MB/s +4.3%
Read-write 4361MB/s 4794MB/s +9.9%

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents_status.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
fs/ext4/extents_status.h | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
index e38b987..92ca56d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.c
@@ -770,6 +770,15 @@ void ext4_es_cache_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t lblk,
}

/*
+ * For pure statistics count, use a large batch size to make sure that
+ * it does percpu update as much as possible.
+ */
+static inline void ext4_es_stats_inc(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
+{
+ __percpu_counter_add(fbc, 1, (1 << 30));
+}
+
+/*
* ext4_es_lookup_extent() looks up an extent in extent status tree.
*
* ext4_es_lookup_extent is called by ext4_map_blocks/ext4_da_map_blocks.
@@ -825,9 +834,9 @@ out:
es->es_pblk = es1->es_pblk;
if (!ext4_es_is_referenced(es1))
ext4_es_set_referenced(es1);
- stats->es_stats_cache_hits++;
+ ext4_es_stats_inc(&stats->es_stats_cache_hits);
} else {
- stats->es_stats_cache_misses++;
+ ext4_es_stats_inc(&stats->es_stats_cache_misses);
}

read_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_es_lock);
@@ -1113,9 +1122,9 @@ int ext4_seq_es_shrinker_info_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
seq_printf(seq, "stats:\n %lld objects\n %lld reclaimable objects\n",
percpu_counter_sum_positive(&es_stats->es_stats_all_cnt),
percpu_counter_sum_positive(&es_stats->es_stats_shk_cnt));
- seq_printf(seq, " %lu/%lu cache hits/misses\n",
- es_stats->es_stats_cache_hits,
- es_stats->es_stats_cache_misses);
+ seq_printf(seq, " %lld/%lld cache hits/misses\n",
+ percpu_counter_sum_positive(&es_stats->es_stats_cache_hits),
+ percpu_counter_sum_positive(&es_stats->es_stats_cache_misses));
if (inode_cnt)
seq_printf(seq, " %d inodes on list\n", inode_cnt);

@@ -1142,8 +1151,6 @@ int ext4_es_register_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
sbi->s_es_nr_inode = 0;
spin_lock_init(&sbi->s_es_lock);
sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_shrunk = 0;
- sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_hits = 0;
- sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_misses = 0;
sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_scan_time = 0;
sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_max_scan_time = 0;
err = percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_all_cnt, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1153,15 +1160,26 @@ int ext4_es_register_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
if (err)
goto err1;

+ err = percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_hits, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (err)
+ goto err2;
+
+ err = percpu_counter_init(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_misses, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (err)
+ goto err3;
+
sbi->s_es_shrinker.scan_objects = ext4_es_scan;
sbi->s_es_shrinker.count_objects = ext4_es_count;
sbi->s_es_shrinker.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS;
err = register_shrinker(&sbi->s_es_shrinker);
if (err)
- goto err2;
+ goto err4;

return 0;
-
+err4:
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_misses);
+err3:
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_hits);
err2:
percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_shk_cnt);
err1:
@@ -1173,6 +1191,8 @@ void ext4_es_unregister_shrinker(struct ext4_sb_info *sbi)
{
percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_all_cnt);
percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_shk_cnt);
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_hits);
+ percpu_counter_destroy(&sbi->s_es_stats.es_stats_cache_misses);
unregister_shrinker(&sbi->s_es_shrinker);
}

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
index f7aa24f..d537868 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents_status.h
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ struct ext4_es_tree {

struct ext4_es_stats {
unsigned long es_stats_shrunk;
- unsigned long es_stats_cache_hits;
- unsigned long es_stats_cache_misses;
u64 es_stats_scan_time;
u64 es_stats_max_scan_time;
+ struct percpu_counter es_stats_cache_hits;
+ struct percpu_counter es_stats_cache_misses;
struct percpu_counter es_stats_all_cnt;
struct percpu_counter es_stats_shk_cnt;
};
--
1.7.1