From: T Makphaibulchoke Subject: [PATCH 0/2] ext4: increase mbcache scalability Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:55:10 -0600 Message-ID: <1374108910-50444-1-git-send-email-tmac@hp.com> Cc: aswin@hp.com To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tmakph@gmail.com Return-path: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org This patch intends to improve the scalability of an ext4 filesystem by introducing higher degree of parallelism to the usages of its mb_cache and mb_cache_entries. Here are some of the benchmark results with the changes. On a 90 core machine: Here are the performance improvements in some of the aim7 workloads, --------------------------- | | % increase | --------------------------- | custom | 13.30 | --------------------------- | disk | 5.00 | --------------------------- | new_fserver | 6.73 | --------------------------- | shared | 7.12 | --------------------------- For Swingbench dss workload, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Users | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | % imprvoment | 9.14 | 9.26 | 19.9 | 5.31 | 7.79 | 0.23 |-4.39 |-4.48 |-4.36 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For SPECjbb2013, composite run, -------------------------------------------- | | max-jOPS | critical-jOPS | -------------------------------------------- | % improvement | 6.73 | 16.37 | -------------------------------------------- On an 80 core machine: Here are the improvments in some of the aim7 workloads, --------------------------- | | % increase | --------------------------- | fserver | 6.47 | --------------------------- | new_fserver | 4.62 | --------------------------- For Swingbench dss workload, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Users | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 | 800 | 900 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | % imprvoment | 4.29 | 2.28 | 3.25 | 1.45 |-0.84 | 3.11 |-0.61 | 3.80 | 2.58 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For SPECjbb2013, composite run, -------------------------------------------- | | max-jOPS | critical-jOPS | -------------------------------------------- | % improvement | 0.49 | 3.21 | -------------------------------------------- The changes have been tested with ext4 xfstests to verify that no regression has been introduced. fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 + fs/ext4/super.c | 8 ++ fs/ext4/xattr.c | 41 +++++--- fs/ext4/xattr.h | 3 + fs/mbcache.c | 432 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ include/linux/mbcache.h | 5 + 6 files changed, 385 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)