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SubjectRe: getdents - ext4 vs btrfs performance
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2012/2/29 Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>:
> Hi Chris,
>
> the last one was borked :) Please check this one.
>
> -jacek
>
> 2012/2/29 Jacek Luczak <difrost.kernel@gmail.com>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> /*Sorry for sending incomplete email, hit wrong button :) I guess I
>> can't use Gmail */
>>
>> Long story short: We've found that operations on a directory structure
>> holding many dirs takes ages on ext4.
>>
>> The Question: Why there's that huge difference in ext4 and btrfs? See
>> below test results for real values.
>>
>> Background: I had to backup a Jenkins directory holding workspace for
>> few projects which were co from svn (implies lot of extra .svn dirs).
>> The copy takes lot of time (at least more than I've expected) and
>> process was mostly in D (disk sleep). I've dig more and done some
>> extra test to see if this is not a regression on block/fs site. To
>> isolate the issue I've also performed same tests on btrfs.
>>
>> Test environment configuration:
>> 1) HW: HP ProLiant BL460 G6, 48 GB of memory, 2x 6 core Intel X5670 HT
>> enabled, Smart Array P410i, RAID 1 on top of 2x 10K RPM SAS HDDs.
>> 2) Kernels: All tests were done on following kernels:
>>  - 2.6.39.4-3 -- the build ID (3) is used here for internal tacking of
>> config changes mostly. In -3 we've introduced ,,fix readahead pipeline
>> break caused by block plug'' patch. Otherwise it's pure 2.6.39.4.
>>  - 3.2.7 -- latest kernel at the time of testing (3.2.8 has been
>> release recently).
>> 3) A subject of tests, directory holding:
>>  - 54GB of data (measured on ext4)
>>  - 1978149 files
>>  - 844008 directories
>> 4) Mount options:
>>  - ext4 -- errors=remount-ro,noatime,
>> data=writeback
>>  - btrfs -- noatime,nodatacow and for later investigation on
>> copression effect: noatime,nodatacow,compress=lzo
>>
>> In all tests I've been measuring time of execution. Following tests
>> were performed:
>> - find . -type d
>> - find . -type f
>> - cp -a
>> - rm -rf
>>
>> Ext4 results:
>> | Type     | 2.6.39.4-3   | 3.2.7
>> | Dir cnt  | 17m 40sec  | 11m 20sec
>> | File cnt |  17m 36sec | 11m 22sec
>> | Copy    | 1h 28m        | 1h 27m
>> | Remove| 3m 43sec    | 3m 38sec
>>
>> Btrfs results (without lzo comression):
>> | Type     | 2.6.39.4-3   | 3.2.7
>> | Dir cnt  | 2m 22sec  | 2m 21sec
>> | File cnt |  2m 26sec | 2m 23sec
>> | Copy    | 36m 22sec | 39m 35sec
>> | Remove| 7m 51sec   | 10m 43sec
>>
>> From above one can see that copy takes close to 1h less on btrfs. I've
>> done strace counting times of calls, results are as follows (from
>> 3.2.7):
>> 1) Ext4 (only to elements):
>> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
>> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
>>  57.01   13.257850           1  15082163           read
>>  23.40    5.440353           3   1687702           getdents
>>  6.15    1.430559           0   3672418           lstat
>>  3.80    0.883767           0  13106961           write
>>  2.32    0.539959           0   4794099           open
>>  1.69    0.393589           0    843695           mkdir
>>  1.28    0.296700           0   5637802           setxattr
>>  0.80    0.186539           0   7325195           stat
>>
>> 2) Btrfs:
>> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
>> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
>> 53.38    9.486210           1  15179751           read
>> 11.38    2.021662           1   1688328           getdents
>>  10.64    1.890234           0   4800317           open
>>  6.83    1.213723           0  13201590           write
>>  4.85    0.862731           0   5644314           setxattr
>>  3.50    0.621194           1    844008           mkdir
>>  2.75    0.489059           0   3675992         1 lstat
>>  1.71    0.303544           0   5644314           llistxattr
>>  1.50    0.265943           0   1978149           utimes
>>  1.02    0.180585           0   5644314    844008 getxattr
>>
>> On btrfs getdents takes much less time which prove the bottleneck in
>> copy time on ext4 is this syscall. In 2.6.39.4 it shows even less time
>> for getdents:
>> % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
>> ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
>>  50.77   10.978816           1  15033132           read
>>  14.46    3.125996           1   4733589           open
>>  7.15    1.546311           0   5566988           setxattr
>>  5.89    1.273845           0   3626505           lstat
>>  5.81    1.255858           1   1667050           getdents
>>  5.66    1.224403           0  13083022           write
>>  3.40    0.735114           1    833371           mkdir
>>  1.96    0.424881           0   5566988           llistxattr
>>
>>
>> Why so huge difference in the getdents timings?
>>
>> -Jacek

I will try to answer the question from the broken email I've sent.

@Lukas, it was always a fresh FS on top of LVM logical volume. I've
been cleaning cache/remounting to sync all data before (re)doing
tests.

-Jacek

BTW: Sorry for the email mixture. I just can't get this gmail thing to
work (why forcing top posting:/). Please use this thread.
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