Message ID | 20191007091104.18095-1-jthumshirn@suse.de (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Add xxhash64 and sha256 as possible new checksums | expand |
On 7.10.19 г. 12:11 ч., Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > This series adds support for two additional checksum algorithms to btrfs. These > algorithms are xxhash64[1] and sha256[2]. > > xxhash64 is a fast non-cryptographic hash function with good collision resistance. > It has a constant output length of 8 Byte (64 Bit), it provides a good > trade-off between collision resistance and speed compared to the currently > used crc32c. > > sha256 is the 32 Byte (256 Bit) variant of the SHA-2 cryptographic hash. It > provides cryptographically secure collision resistance with a trade off in > speed. > > Support for xxhash64 in mkfs.btrfs is in the current devel branch and sha256 > support will be sent separately after this patch-set. > > In addition to adding these two hash algorithms two sysfs files are > implemented, one being /sys/fs/btrfs/features/supported_checksums showing the > in kernel support for different checksumming algorithms. The other one is > /sys/fs/btrfs/$FSID/checksum showing the checksum used for a specific > file-system and the used in-kernel driver for this checksum. > > Here is an example in a qemu vm: > host:/# cat /sys/fs/btrfs/features/supported_checksums > crc32c, xxhash64, sha256 > host:/# cat /sys/fs/btrfs/3cf09516-5bb8-498f-834d-e9ec54043546/checksum > sha256 (sha256-generic) > > This series has survived the usual regression testing with xfstests. > > I could not observe any performance differences between any of these hashes in > my test setup 256K mixed read-write IO to a single file from a single process > on both a 5700rpm SATA 3G Disk behind a HPE SmartArray RAID HBA and RAM Disk. > > Here's the raw numbers for the spinning rust behind SATA: > CRC32C Buffered Read (KiB/s): Avg: 7881, Min: 7495, Max: 8744, Stdev: 508 > CRC32C Buffered Write (KiB/s): Avg: 7883, Min: 7497, Max: 8746, Stdev: 508 > > CRC32C Direct Read (KiB/s): Avg: 331, Min: 319, Max: 339, Stdev: 7 > CRC32C Direct Write (KiB/s): Avg: 331, Min: 319, Max: 339, Stdev: 7 > > XXHASH64 Buffered Read (KiB/s): Avg: 8143, Min: 7748, Max: 8721, Stdev: 355 > XXHASH64 Buffered Write (KiB/s): Avg: 8145, Min: 7750, Max: 8722, Stdev: 355 > > XXHASH64 Direct Read (KiB/s): Avg: 311, Min: 248, Max: 336, Stdev: 36 > XXHASH64 Direct Write (KiB/s): Avg: 311, Min: 248, Max: 336, Stdev: 36 > > SHA256 Buffered Read (KiB/s): Avg: 7997, Min: 7665, Max: 8336, Stdev: 273 > SHA256 Buffered Write (KiB/s): Avg: 7998, Min: 7666, Max: 8337, Stdev: 273 > > SHA256 Direct Read (KiB/s): Avg: 312, Min: 248, Max: 336, Stdev: 36 > SHA256 Direct Write (KiB/s): Avg: 312, Min: 248, Max: 336, Stdev: 36 > > The reason I could not observe any changes in performance is the fact that the > btrfs checksumming process takes only 0.04% of the IO path. This also explains > the very small standard deviation in the above table as I stooped benchmarking > after 5 benchmark runs. > > The hottest call chain (according to perf) is this: > > 17.08% 0.00% kworker/u128:9- [kernel.vmlinux] [k] btrfs_finish_ordered_io > | > ---btrfs_finish_ordered_io > | > --17.04%--insert_reserved_file_extent.constprop.75 > | > --17.02%--__btrfs_drop_extents > | > --16.94%--btrfs_free_extent > | > --16.94%--btrfs_add_delayed_data_ref > | > --16.90%--btrfs_qgroup_trace_extent_post Yeah, we know qgroups tracing and backrefs resolv are somewhat slow. How about benchmarking without them since I believe this to be more representative of how people use btrfs. > btrfs_find_all_roots > | > --16.90%--btrfs_find_all_roots_safe > | > --16.89%--find_parent_nodes > | > --16.68%--resolve_indirect_refs > [snip] > > [1] https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2 > > David Sterba (1): > btrfs: sysfs: export supported checksums > > Johannes Thumshirn (3): > btrfs: add xxhash64 to checksumming algorithms > btrfs: add sha256 to checksumming algorithms > btrfs: show used checksum driver per filesystem in sysfs > > fs/btrfs/Kconfig | 2 ++ > fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 7 ++++++ > fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 ++ > fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 ++ > fs/btrfs/super.c | 2 ++ > fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/btrfs_tree.h | 2 ++ > 7 files changed, 65 insertions(+) >