| [PATCH 0/4] fuse: optimize scatter-gather direct IO [message #47195] |
Fri, 20 July 2012 11:50  |
Maxim Patlasov
Messages: 45
Registered: July 2012
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Hi,
Existing fuse implementation processes scatter-gather direct IO in suboptimal
way: fuse_direct_IO passes iovec[] to fuse_loop_dio and the latter calls
fuse_direct_read/write for each iovec from iovec[] array. Thus we have as many
submitted fuse-requests as the number of elements in iovec[] array. This is
pure waste of resources and affects performance negatively especially for the
case of many small chunks (e.g. page-size) packed in one iovec[] array.
The patch-set amends situation in a natural way: let's simply pack as
many iovec[] segments to every fuse-request as possible.
To estimate performance improvement I used slightly modified fusexmp over
tmpfs (clearing O_DIRECT bit from fi->flags in xmp_open). The test opened
a file with O_DIRECT, then called readv/writev in a loop. An iovec[] for
readv/writev consisted of 32 segments of 4K each. The throughput on some
commodity (rather feeble) server was (in MB/sec):
original / patched
writev: ~107 / ~480
readv: ~114 / ~569
We're exploring possiblity to use fuse for our own distributed storage
implementation and big iovec[] arrays of many page-size chunks is typical
use-case for device virtualization thread performing i/o on behalf of
virtual-machine it serves.
Thanks,
Maxim
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Maxim Patlasov (4):
fuse: add basic support of iovec[] to fuse_req
fuse: re-work fuse_get_user_pages() to operate on iovec[]
fuse: re-work fuse_direct_io() to operate on iovec[]
fuse: re-work fuse_direct_IO()
fs/fuse/dev.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++-
fs/fuse/file.c | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 12 ++++
3 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
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