fuse: add max_pages to init_out
authorConstantine Shulyupin <const@MakeLinux.com>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 12:37:06 +0000 (15:37 +0300)
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Mon, 1 Oct 2018 08:07:06 +0000 (10:07 +0200)
commit5da784cce4308ae10a79e3c8c41b13fb9568e4e0
treef55416dec7532814d30c1dbd415ef11baec9fc7a
parent8a7aa286ab67d7dfac8abbefab899597b5977c9a
fuse: add max_pages to init_out

Replace FUSE_MAX_PAGES_PER_REQ with the configurable parameter max_pages to
improve performance.

Old RFC with detailed description of the problem and many fixes by Mitsuo
Hayasaka (mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com):
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/5/136

We've encountered performance degradation and fixed it on a big and complex
virtual environment.

Environment to reproduce degradation and improvement:

1. Add lag to user mode FUSE
Add nanosleep(&(struct timespec){ 0, 1000 }, NULL); to xmp_write_buf in
passthrough_fh.c

2. patch UM fuse with configurable max_pages parameter. The patch will be
provided latter.

3. run test script and perform test on tmpfs
fuse_test()
{

       cd /tmp
       mkdir -p fusemnt
       passthrough_fh -o max_pages=$1 /tmp/fusemnt
       grep fuse /proc/self/mounts
       dd conv=fdatasync oflag=dsync if=/dev/zero of=fusemnt/tmp/tmp \
count=1K bs=1M 2>&1 | grep -v records
       rm fusemnt/tmp/tmp
       killall passthrough_fh
}

Test results:

passthrough_fh /tmp/fusemnt fuse.passthrough_fh \
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0 0 0
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.73867 s, 618 MB/s

passthrough_fh /tmp/fusemnt fuse.passthrough_fh \
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,max_pages=256 0 0
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.15643 s, 928 MB/s

Obviously with bigger lag the difference between 'before' and 'after'
will be more significant.

Mitsuo Hayasaka, in 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/5/136),
observed improvement from 400-550 to 520-740.

Signed-off-by: Constantine Shulyupin <const@MakeLinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
fs/fuse/dev.c
fs/fuse/file.c
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
fs/fuse/inode.c
include/uapi/linux/fuse.h