dm snapshot: use dm-bufio prefetch

This patch modifies dm-snapshot so that it prefetches the buffers when
loading the exceptions.

The number of buffers read ahead is specified in the DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS
macro.  The current value for DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS (12) was found to
provide the best performance on a single 15k SCSI spindle.  In the
future we may modify this default or make it configurable.

Also, introduce the function dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers to setup
bufio's number of internal buffers before freeing happens.  dm-bufio may
hold more buffers if enough memory is available.  There is no guarantee
that the specified number of buffers will be available - if you need a
guarantee, use the argument reserved_buffers for
dm_bufio_client_create.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Mikulas Patocka 2014-01-13 19:13:05 -05:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent 55494bf294
commit 55b082e614
3 changed files with 41 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ struct dm_bufio_client {
struct list_head reserved_buffers;
unsigned need_reserved_buffers;
unsigned minimum_buffers;
struct hlist_head *cache_hash;
wait_queue_head_t free_buffer_wait;
@ -861,8 +863,8 @@ static void __get_memory_limit(struct dm_bufio_client *c,
buffers = dm_bufio_cache_size_per_client >>
(c->sectors_per_block_bits + SECTOR_SHIFT);
if (buffers < DM_BUFIO_MIN_BUFFERS)
buffers = DM_BUFIO_MIN_BUFFERS;
if (buffers < c->minimum_buffers)
buffers = c->minimum_buffers;
*limit_buffers = buffers;
*threshold_buffers = buffers * DM_BUFIO_WRITEBACK_PERCENT / 100;
@ -1372,6 +1374,12 @@ void dm_bufio_forget(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_bufio_forget);
void dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned n)
{
c->minimum_buffers = n;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers);
unsigned dm_bufio_get_block_size(struct dm_bufio_client *c)
{
return c->block_size;
@ -1568,6 +1576,8 @@ struct dm_bufio_client *dm_bufio_client_create(struct block_device *bdev, unsign
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&c->reserved_buffers);
c->need_reserved_buffers = reserved_buffers;
c->minimum_buffers = DM_BUFIO_MIN_BUFFERS;
init_waitqueue_head(&c->free_buffer_wait);
c->async_write_error = 0;

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@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ void dm_bufio_release_move(struct dm_buffer *b, sector_t new_block);
*/
void dm_bufio_forget(struct dm_bufio_client *c, sector_t block);
/*
* Set the minimum number of buffers before cleanup happens.
*/
void dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c, unsigned n);
unsigned dm_bufio_get_block_size(struct dm_bufio_client *c);
sector_t dm_bufio_get_device_size(struct dm_bufio_client *c);
sector_t dm_bufio_get_block_number(struct dm_buffer *b);

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@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
#define DM_MSG_PREFIX "persistent snapshot"
#define DM_CHUNK_SIZE_DEFAULT_SECTORS 32 /* 16KB */
#define DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS 12
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------
* Persistent snapshots, by persistent we mean that the snapshot
* will survive a reboot.
@ -497,6 +499,7 @@ static int read_exceptions(struct pstore *ps,
{
int r, full = 1;
struct dm_bufio_client *client;
chunk_t prefetch_area = 0;
client = dm_bufio_client_create(dm_snap_cow(ps->store->snap)->bdev,
ps->store->chunk_size << SECTOR_SHIFT,
@ -505,6 +508,11 @@ static int read_exceptions(struct pstore *ps,
if (IS_ERR(client))
return PTR_ERR(client);
/*
* Setup for one current buffer + desired readahead buffers.
*/
dm_bufio_set_minimum_buffers(client, 1 + DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS);
/*
* Keeping reading chunks and inserting exceptions until
* we find a partially full area.
@ -512,7 +520,22 @@ static int read_exceptions(struct pstore *ps,
for (ps->current_area = 0; full; ps->current_area++) {
struct dm_buffer *bp;
void *area;
chunk_t chunk = area_location(ps, ps->current_area);
chunk_t chunk;
if (unlikely(prefetch_area < ps->current_area))
prefetch_area = ps->current_area;
if (DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS) do {
chunk_t pf_chunk = area_location(ps, prefetch_area);
if (unlikely(pf_chunk >= dm_bufio_get_device_size(client)))
break;
dm_bufio_prefetch(client, pf_chunk, 1);
prefetch_area++;
if (unlikely(!prefetch_area))
break;
} while (prefetch_area <= ps->current_area + DM_PREFETCH_CHUNKS);
chunk = area_location(ps, ps->current_area);
area = dm_bufio_read(client, chunk, &bp);
if (unlikely(IS_ERR(area))) {