From patchwork Mon Nov 2 13:50:00 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: David Wysochanski X-Patchwork-Id: 11873905 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516B592C for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3F9223AB for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="ZFjIM/k4" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725768AbgKBNvN (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2020 08:51:13 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([63.128.21.124]:51922 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725788AbgKBNuX (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Nov 2020 08:50:23 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1604325021; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc; bh=v7HqDtWYZqrkgndlIErLlo2QiRxK3cJRq+hlbpWLrKU=; b=ZFjIM/k4x8vr4Bq6IpFP01fsq5Nq77UZrgFzvRewn7oN174OOLe0dzSkQH/JZuHdcfN+Vt rL1UyWpZ6t+wzZ6T9iU3/4840qpQaqdgmu6SxNJeb7QYhftl4oSZv69jEKohstbNj21+in pv/lIvFFB3+UVrQP+rRECTDrDUBYeQg= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-184-iJLvY-W8NXSmo7AqgB-Ymw-1; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 08:50:14 -0500 X-MC-Unique: iJLvY-W8NXSmo7AqgB-Ymw-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1045A42052; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dwysocha.rdu.csb (ovpn-113-255.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.113.255]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A63A5D9DD; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 13:50:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Dave Wysochanski To: Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 00/11] Add NFS readdir tracepoints and improve performance of reading directories Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 08:50:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1604325011-29427-1-git-send-email-dwysocha@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Note these patches are also on github at: https://github.com/DaveWysochanskiRH/kernel/tree/5.9-nfs-readdir This patchset is mostly tracepoints but patch 9 fixes a performance problem with NFSv4.x when listing a directory that is being modified. After the NFSv4.x patch, for consistency, patch 11 is included which makes NFSv3 behave the same as NFSv4, and given the inclusion of patch 9 does not re-introduce the regression fixed in previous commit 79f687a3de9e. As described in patch 11, NFSv3 does not currently have the NFSv4 problem because it does not drop the pagecache when a large directory read is in progress. As background, currently any process that is listing a directory must search starting at cookie 0 at each entry to nfs_readdir(), regardless of the previous cookie returned by the server, regardless of NFS version, and regardless of whether the directory is being modified or cache expired. This means, for example, if a large directory listing requires many getdents64/nfs_readdir calls, the kernel will search through the pagecache with an increasing penalty as the size of the directory increases and the process attempts to obtain the latter entries of the directory. When the directory is being modified, and when acdirmax is exceeded, and nfs_attribute_cache_expired() returns true, with NFSv4.x we drop the pagecache for the directory entries, so the process cannot make forward progress. I investigated using a similar approach as was done with NFSv3 in commit 79f687a3de9e, but for NFSv4, READDIR does not return the directory attributes and thus _nfs4_proc_readdir does not call nfs_refresh_inode() unlike nfs3_proc_readdir(). With NFSv3, the calling of nfs_refresh_inode() is what updates nfsi->read_cache_jiffies causing nfs_attribute_cache_expired() to always return false, leaving the pagecache in tact despite NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA being set. Thus it's not clear whether the NFSv3 approach could be done for NFSv4 to achieve the same behavior as with NFSv3. In addition, the current NFSv3 approach leaves in place the aforementioned penalty, which for large directories can be substantial. So rather than this approach, the approach taken with NFSv4 leaves in place the dropping of the pagecache when acdirmax expires, and relies on the fact that a process can trust the last cookie returned by the server and continue at that point in the pagecache without forcing the current process to start over from cookie 0 upon the next entry to nfs_readdir(). As far as I could tell there is no POSIX requirement to start from 0 again when a directory is being modified during an in-progress directory read, and so the current behavior is only an implementation limitation. The NFSv4 performance problem can be seen by exporting a directory with a larger number of files such that the uncached time to list the directory exceeds acdirmax. I have an explicit reproducer script I can provide, but a simple reproducer outline is as follows: 1. First export a directory that contains enough files that the listing exceeds acdirmax. In my testing, the NFS server and client were the same system, there were 500,000 files in the directory, and I set acdirmin=10,acdirmax=20. 2. Mount client1 (writer) and client2 (reader). Note below I use the loopback IP address, and a 'wsize' parameter on the writer mount so we get different superblocks: mount -o vers=4.1 127.0.0.1:/export/bz1889478 $MNT1 mount -o vers=4.1,wsize=65536 127.0.0.1:/export/bz1889478 $MNT2 3. Start client1 (writer): echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches i=500000; while true; do touch $MNT2/file$i.bin; i=$((i + 1)); sleep 1; done > /dev/null 2>&1 & 4. Start client2 (reader): while true; do time ls -1f $MNT1 | wc -l; done & The output from my reproducer script is: ./t0_bz1889478.sh 4.1 127.0.0.1 500000 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:22 AM EST: Running with NFS vers=4.1 server 127.0.0.1 and files 500000 directory is idle Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:22 AM EST: mount -o vers=4.1 127.0.0.1:/export/bz1889478 /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:22 AM EST: dropping caches with: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:24 AM EST: idle directory: skipping client2 adding files Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:24 AM EST: client1 running command: ls -lf /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:24 AM EST: waiting for listing to complete Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:46 AM EST: client1 pid took 22 seconds to list the directory of 500000 files Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:46 AM EST: client1 READDIR ops total: 4902 (before = 0 after = 4902) Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:47 AM EST: umounting /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt2 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:47 AM EST: Running with NFS vers=4.1 server 127.0.0.1 and files 500000 directory being modified Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:47 AM EST: mount -o vers=4.1 127.0.0.1:/export/bz1889478 /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:47 AM EST: mount -o vers=4.1,wsize=65536 127.0.0.1:/export/bz1889478 /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt2 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:47 AM EST: dropping caches with: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:50 AM EST: changing directory: client2 start adding 1 file/sec at /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt2 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:51 AM EST: client1 running command: ls -lf /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:54:51 AM EST: waiting for listing to complete Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:55:12 AM EST: client1 pid took 21 seconds to list the directory of 500000 files Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:55:12 AM EST: client1 READDIR ops total: 4902 (before = 0 after = 4902) ./t0_bz1889478.sh: line 124: 5973 Killed while true; do echo $i; touch $NFS_CLIENT_MOUNTPOINT2/file$i.bin; i=$((i + 1)); sleep 1; done > /dev/null 2>&1 Mon 02 Nov 2020 07:55:20 AM EST: umounting /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt1 /mnt/nfs/bz1889478-mnt2 PASSED TEST ./t0_bz1889478.sh on kernel 5.9.0-nfs-readdir+ with NFS vers=4.1 For diagnostics and verification, of course a tcpdump can be used, or even READDIR ops and time can be compared as in the reproducer, but also the included tracepoints can be used. For the tracepoints, before step #2 above use the below trace-cmd to trace the listing and see whether the problem occurs or not, evidenced by either the presence of nfs_invalidate_mapping* trace events or multiple nfs_readdir_enter calls with "cookie=0x00000000": trace-cmd start -e nfs:nfs_readdir_enter -e nfs4:nfs4_readdir -e nfs:nfs_readdir_exit -e nfs:nfs_invalidate_mapping_* Dave Wysochanski (11): NFSv4: Improve nfs4_readdir tracepoint by adding additional fields NFS: Replace dfprintk statements with trace events in nfs_readdir NFS: Move nfs_readdir_descriptor_t into internal header NFS: Add tracepoints for functions involving nfs_readdir_descriptor_t NFS: Add tracepoints for opendir, closedir, fsync_dir and llseek_dir NFS: Add tracepoints for nfs_readdir_xdr_filler enter and exit NFS: Add tracepoint to entry and exit of nfs_do_filldir NFS: Replace LOOKUPCACHE dfprintk statements with tracepoints NFS: Improve performance of listing directories being modified NFS: Add page_index to nfs_readdir enter and exit tracepoints NFS: Bring back nfs_dir_mapping_need_revalidate() in nfs_readdir() fs/nfs/dir.c | 101 +++++++++--------- fs/nfs/internal.h | 18 ++++ fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/nfs4trace.h | 44 +++++++- fs/nfs/nfstrace.h | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 1 + 7 files changed, 394 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)