Re: FUSE: write operations trigger balance_dirty_pages when using writeback cache

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:08 PM, åçç <liushuoran@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. I tried removing BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT, and it works. There is no balance_dirty_pages() triggered, and the performance improves a lot.
>
> Tested by libfuse passthrough_ll example and fio:
> ./passthrough_ll -o writeback /mnt/fuse/
> fio --name=test --ioengine=psync --directory=/mnt/fuse/home/test --bs=4k --direct=0 --size=64M --rw=write --fallocate=0 --numjobs=1
>
> performance with BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT:
> WRITE: bw=158MiB/s (165MB/s), 158MiB/s-158MiB/s (165MB/s-165MB/s), io=64.0MiB (67.1MB), run=406-406msec
>
> Performance without BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT:
> WRITE: bw=1561MiB/s (1637MB/s), 1561MiB/s-1561MiB/s (1637MB/s-1637MB/s), io=64.0MiB (67.1MB), run=41-41msec
>
> However, I wonder if there are some side-effects to remove it? Since it seems that the original purpose of this feature is to prevent FUSE from consuming too much memory.

Yes.  So if BDI_CAP_STRICTLIMIT is causing a serious performance
bottleneck, then we need to think about solving this without losing
the benefits.  Simply removing it is definitely not a proper solution.

Thanks,
Miklos