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do_blockdev_direct_IO() increments and decrements the inode
->i_dio_count for each IO operation. It does this to protect against
truncate of a file. Block devices don't need this sort of protection.

For a capable multiqueue setup, this atomic int is the only shared
state between applications accessing the device for O_DIRECT, and it
presents a scaling wall for that. In my testing, as much as 30% of
system time is spent incrementing and decrementing this value. A mixed
read/write workload improved from ~2.5M IOPS to ~9.6M IOPS, with
better latencies too. Before:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   33],  5.00th=[   34], 10.00th=[   34], 20.00th=[   34],
 | 30.00th=[   34], 40.00th=[   34], 50.00th=[   35], 60.00th=[   35],
 | 70.00th=[   35], 80.00th=[   35], 90.00th=[   37], 95.00th=[   80],
 | 99.00th=[   98], 99.50th=[  151], 99.90th=[  155], 99.95th=[  155],
 | 99.99th=[  165]

After:

clat percentiles (usec):
 |  1.00th=[   95],  5.00th=[  108], 10.00th=[  129], 20.00th=[  149],
 | 30.00th=[  155], 40.00th=[  161], 50.00th=[  167], 60.00th=[  171],
 | 70.00th=[  177], 80.00th=[  185], 90.00th=[  201], 95.00th=[  270],
 | 99.00th=[  390], 99.50th=[  398], 99.90th=[  418], 99.95th=[  422],
 | 99.99th=[  438]

In other setups, Robert Elliott reported seeing good performance
improvements:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/3/557

The more applications accessing the device, the worse it gets.

Add a new direct-io flags, DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT, which tells
do_blockdev_direct_IO() that it need not worry about incrementing
or decrementing the inode i_dio_count for this caller.

Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Cc: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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axboe authored and Al Viro committed Apr 24, 2015
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion fs/block_dev.c
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Expand Up @@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, loff_t offset)
struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;

return __blockdev_direct_IO(iocb, inode, I_BDEV(inode), iter, offset,
blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL, 0);
blkdev_get_block, NULL, NULL,
DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT);
}

int __sync_blockdev(struct block_device *bdev, int wait)
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions fs/btrfs/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -8129,7 +8129,7 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
if (check_direct_IO(BTRFS_I(inode)->root, iocb, iter, offset))
return 0;

atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);
smp_mb__after_atomic();

/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -8169,7 +8169,7 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
current->journal_info = &outstanding_extents;
} else if (test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_READDIO_NEED_LOCK,
&BTRFS_I(inode)->runtime_flags)) {
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
flags = DIO_LOCKING | DIO_SKIP_HOLES;
wakeup = false;
}
Expand All @@ -8188,7 +8188,7 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
}
out:
if (wakeup)
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
if (relock)
mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/dax.c
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Expand Up @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
}

/* Protects against truncate */
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);

retval = dax_io(inode, iter, pos, end, get_block, &bh);

Expand All @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ ssize_t dax_do_io(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
if ((retval > 0) && end_io)
end_io(iocb, pos, retval, bh.b_private);

inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
out:
return retval;
}
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions fs/direct-io.c
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Expand Up @@ -253,7 +253,9 @@ static ssize_t dio_complete(struct dio *dio, loff_t offset, ssize_t ret,
if (dio->end_io && dio->result)
dio->end_io(dio->iocb, offset, transferred, dio->private);

inode_dio_done(dio->inode);
if (!(dio->flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT))
inode_dio_end(dio->inode);

if (is_async) {
if (dio->rw & WRITE) {
int err;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1195,7 +1197,8 @@ do_blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct inode *inode,
/*
* Will be decremented at I/O completion time.
*/
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
if (!(dio->flags & DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT))
inode_dio_begin(inode);

retval = 0;
sdio.blkbits = blkbits;
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions fs/ext4/indirect.c
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Expand Up @@ -682,11 +682,11 @@ ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
* via ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio(). Check inode's state
* while holding extra i_dio_count ref.
*/
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);
smp_mb();
if (unlikely(ext4_test_inode_state(inode,
EXT4_STATE_DIOREAD_LOCK))) {
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
goto locked;
}
if (IS_DAX(inode))
Expand All @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
inode->i_sb->s_bdev, iter,
offset, ext4_get_block, NULL,
NULL, 0);
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
} else {
locked:
if (IS_DAX(inode))
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/ext4/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,
* overwrite DIO as i_dio_count needs to be incremented under i_mutex.
*/
if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);

/* If we do a overwrite dio, i_mutex locking can be released */
overwrite = *((int *)iocb->private);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3079,7 +3079,7 @@ static ssize_t ext4_ext_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter,

retake_lock:
if (iov_iter_rw(iter) == WRITE)
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
/* take i_mutex locking again if we do a ovewrite dio */
if (overwrite) {
up_read(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
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14 changes: 0 additions & 14 deletions fs/inode.c
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Expand Up @@ -1945,20 +1945,6 @@ void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_wait);

/*
* inode_dio_done - signal finish of a direct I/O requests
* @inode: inode the direct I/O happens on
*
* This is called once we've finished processing a direct I/O request,
* and is used to wake up callers waiting for direct I/O to be quiesced.
*/
void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&inode->i_dio_count))
wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_done);

/*
* inode_set_flags - atomically set some inode flags
*
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10 changes: 5 additions & 5 deletions fs/nfs/direct.c
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Expand Up @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static void nfs_direct_complete(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq, bool write)
if (write)
nfs_zap_mapping(inode, inode->i_mapping);

inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);

if (dreq->iocb) {
long res = (long) dreq->error;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
&nfs_direct_read_completion_ops);
get_dreq(dreq);
desc.pg_dreq = dreq;
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);

while (iov_iter_count(iter)) {
struct page **pagevec;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* generic layer handle the completion.
*/
if (requested_bytes == 0) {
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
nfs_direct_req_release(dreq);
return result < 0 ? result : -EIO;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
&nfs_direct_write_completion_ops);
desc.pg_dreq = dreq;
get_dreq(dreq);
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
inode_dio_begin(inode);

NFS_I(inode)->write_io += iov_iter_count(iter);
while (iov_iter_count(iter)) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq,
* generic layer handle the completion.
*/
if (requested_bytes == 0) {
inode_dio_done(inode);
inode_dio_end(inode);
nfs_direct_req_release(dreq);
return result < 0 ? result : -EIO;
}
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29 changes: 28 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/fs.h
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Expand Up @@ -2635,6 +2635,9 @@ enum {

/* filesystem can handle aio writes beyond i_size */
DIO_ASYNC_EXTEND = 0x04,

/* inode/fs/bdev does not need truncate protection */
DIO_SKIP_DIO_COUNT = 0x08,
};

void dio_end_io(struct bio *bio, int error);
Expand All @@ -2657,7 +2660,31 @@ static inline ssize_t blockdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb,
#endif

void inode_dio_wait(struct inode *inode);
void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode);

/*
* inode_dio_begin - signal start of a direct I/O requests
* @inode: inode the direct I/O happens on
*
* This is called once we've finished processing a direct I/O request,
* and is used to wake up callers waiting for direct I/O to be quiesced.
*/
static inline void inode_dio_begin(struct inode *inode)
{
atomic_inc(&inode->i_dio_count);
}

/*
* inode_dio_end - signal finish of a direct I/O requests
* @inode: inode the direct I/O happens on
*
* This is called once we've finished processing a direct I/O request,
* and is used to wake up callers waiting for direct I/O to be quiesced.
*/
static inline void inode_dio_end(struct inode *inode)
{
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&inode->i_dio_count))
wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP);
}

extern void inode_set_flags(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags,
unsigned int mask);
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