xfs: reverse search directory freespace indexes
When a directory is growing rapidly, new blocks tend to get added at
the end of the directory. These end up at the end of the freespace
index, and when the directory gets large finding these new
freespaces gets expensive. The code does a linear search across the
frespace index from the first block in the directory to the last,
hence meaning the newly added space is the last index searched.
Instead, do a reverse order index search, starting from the last
block and index in the freespace index. This makes most lookups for
free space on rapidly growing directories O(1) instead of O(N), but
should not have any impact on random insert workloads because the
average search length is the same regardless of which end of the
array we start at.
The result is a major improvement in large directory grow rates:
create time(sec) / rate (files/s)
File count vanilla Prev commit Patched
10k 0.41 / 24.3k 0.42 / 23.8k 0.41 / 24.3k
20k 0.74 / 27.0k 0.76 / 26.3k 0.75 / 26.7k
100k 3.81 / 26.4k 3.47 / 28.8k 3.27 / 30.6k
200k 8.58 / 23.3k 7.19 / 27.8k 6.71 / 29.8k
1M 85.69 / 11.7k 48.53 / 20.6k 37.67 / 26.5k
2M 280.31 / 7.1k 130.14 / 15.3k 79.55 / 25.2k
10M 3913.26 / 2.5k 552.89 / 18.1k
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>