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Matthew Ahrens 2bce8049c3 OpenZFS 7004 - dmu_tx_hold_zap() does dnode_hold() 7x on same object
Using a benchmark which has 32 threads creating 2 million files in the
same directory, on a machine with 16 CPU cores, I observed poor
performance. I noticed that dmu_tx_hold_zap() was using about 30% of
all CPU, and doing dnode_hold() 7 times on the same object (the ZAP
object that is being held).

dmu_tx_hold_zap() keeps a hold on the dnode_t the entire time it is
running, in dmu_tx_hold_t:txh_dnode, so it would be nice to use the
dnode_t that we already have in hand, rather than repeatedly calling
dnode_hold(). To do this, we need to pass the dnode_t down through
all the intermediate calls that dmu_tx_hold_zap() makes, making these
routines take the dnode_t* rather than an objset_t* and a uint64_t
object number. In particular, the following routines will need to have
analogous *_by_dnode() variants created:

dmu_buf_hold_noread()
dmu_buf_hold()
zap_lookup()
zap_lookup_norm()
zap_count_write()
zap_lockdir()
zap_count_write()

This can improve performance on the benchmark described above by 100%,
from 30,000 file creations per second to 60,000. (This improvement is on
top of that provided by working around the object allocation issue. Peak
performance of ~90,000 creations per second was observed with 8 CPUs;
adding CPUs past that decreased performance due to lock contention.) The
CPU used by dmu_tx_hold_zap() was reduced by 88%, from 340 CPU-seconds
to 40 CPU-seconds.

Sponsored by: Intel Corp.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/7004
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/109
Closes #4641
Closes #4972
2016-08-19 12:48:03 -07:00
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avl Fix uninitialized variable in avl_add() 2016-07-25 14:21:34 -07:00
icp icp: mark asm files with noexec stack 2016-08-12 09:51:26 -07:00
nvpair OpenZFS 7263 - deeply nested nvlist can overflow stack 2016-08-11 15:58:03 -07:00
unicode Build user-space with different gcc optimization levels 2016-08-09 14:40:35 -07:00
zcommon Rework of fletcher_4 module 2016-08-16 14:11:55 -07:00
zfs OpenZFS 7004 - dmu_tx_hold_zap() does dnode_hold() 7x on same object 2016-08-19 12:48:03 -07:00
zpios Add large block support to zpios(1) benchmark 2015-09-22 09:13:20 -07:00
.gitignore module/.gitignore: Add *.dwo (#4580) 2016-05-02 09:07:04 -07:00
Makefile.in Illumos Crypto Port module added to enable native encryption in zfs 2016-07-20 10:43:30 -07:00