This patch:
- Moves `include/linux/zstd.h` -> `include/linux/zstd_lib.h`
- Updates modified zstd headers to yearless copyright
- Adds a new API in `include/linux/zstd.h` that is functionally
equivalent to the in-use subset of the current API. Functions are
renamed to avoid symbol collisions with zstd, to make it clear it is
not the upstream zstd API, and to follow the kernel style guide.
- Updates all callers to use the new API.
There are no functional changes in this patch. Since there are no
functional change, I felt it was okay to update all the callers in a
single patch. Once the API is approved, the callers are mechanically
changed.
This patch is preparing for the 3rd patch in this series, which updates
zstd to version 1.4.10. Since the upstream zstd API is no longer exposed
to callers, the update can happen transparently.
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Tested By: Paul Jones <paul@pauljones.id.au>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM/Clang v13.0.0 on x86-64
Tested-by: Jean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@sysnux.pf>
This reverts commit bbaf9715f3.
The kmaps in compression code are still needed and cause crashes on
32bit machines (ARM, x86). Reproducible eg. by running fstest btrfs/004
with enabled LZO or ZSTD compression.
Example stacktrace with ZSTD on a 32bit ARM machine:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
pgd = c4159ed3
[00000000] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 210 Comm: kworker/u2:3 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc79+ #12
Hardware name: Allwinner sun4i/sun5i Families
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
PC is at mmiocpy+0x48/0x330
LR is at ZSTD_compressStream_generic+0x15c/0x28c
(mmiocpy) from [<c0629648>] (ZSTD_compressStream_generic+0x15c/0x28c)
(ZSTD_compressStream_generic) from [<c06297dc>] (ZSTD_compressStream+0x64/0xa0)
(ZSTD_compressStream) from [<c049444c>] (zstd_compress_pages+0x170/0x488)
(zstd_compress_pages) from [<c0496798>] (btrfs_compress_pages+0x124/0x12c)
(btrfs_compress_pages) from [<c043c068>] (compress_file_range+0x3c0/0x834)
(compress_file_range) from [<c043c4ec>] (async_cow_start+0x10/0x28)
(async_cow_start) from [<c0475c3c>] (btrfs_work_helper+0x100/0x230)
(btrfs_work_helper) from [<c014ef68>] (process_one_work+0x1b4/0x418)
(process_one_work) from [<c014f210>] (worker_thread+0x44/0x524)
(worker_thread) from [<c0156aa4>] (kthread+0x180/0x1b0)
(kthread) from [<c0100150>]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAJCQCtT+OuemovPO7GZk8Y8=qtOObr0XTDp8jh4OHD6y84AFxw@mail.gmail.com/
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214839
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There are several bugs inside the function btrfs_decompress_buf2page()
- @start_byte doesn't take bvec.bv_offset into consideration
Thus it can't handle case where the target range is not page aligned.
- Too many helper variables
There are tons of helper variables, @buf_offset, @current_buf_start,
@start_byte, @prev_start_byte, @working_bytes, @bytes.
This hurts anyone who wants to read the function.
- No obvious main cursor for the iteartion
A new problem caused by previous problem.
- Comments for parameter list makes no sense
Like @buf_start is the offset to @buf, or offset inside the full
decompressed extent? (Spoiler alert, the later case)
And @total_out acts more like @buf_start + @size_of_buf.
The worst is @disk_start.
The real meaning of it is the file offset of the full decompressed
extent.
This patch will rework the whole function by:
- Add a proper comment with ASCII art to explain the parameter list
- Rework parameter list
The old @buf_start is renamed to @decompressed, to show how many bytes
are already decompressed inside the full decompressed extent.
The old @total_out is replaced by @buf_len, which is the decompressed
data size.
For old @disk_start and @bio, just pass @compressed_bio in.
- Use single main cursor
The main cursor will be @cur_file_offset, to show what's the current
file offset.
Other helper variables will be declared inside the main loop, and only
minimal amount of helper variables:
* offset_inside_decompressed_buf: The only real helper
* copy_start_file_offset: File offset we start memcpy
* bvec_file_offset: File offset of current bvec
Even with all these extensive comments, the final function is still
smaller than the original function, which is definitely a win.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
As we don't use highmem pages anymore, drop the kmap/kunmap. The kmap is
simply page_address and kunmap is a no-op.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The highmem flag is used for allocating pages for compression and for
raid56 pages. The high memory makes sense on 32bit systems but is not
without problems. On 64bit system's it's just another layer of wrappers.
The time the pages are allocated for compression or raid56 is relatively
short (about a transaction commit), so the pages are not blocked
indefinitely. As the number of pages depends on the amount of data being
written/read, there's a theoretical problem. A fast device on a 32bit
system could use most of the low memory pool, while with the highmem
allocation that would not happen. This was possibly the original idea
long time ago, but nowadays we optimize for 64bit systems.
This patch removes all usage of the __GFP_HIGHMEM flag for page
allocation, the kmap/kunmap are still in place and will be removed in
followup patches. Remaining is masking out the bit in
alloc_extent_state and __lookup_free_space_inode, that can safely stay.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There are many places where kmap/memset/kunmap patterns occur.
Use the newly lifted memzero_page() to eliminate direct uses of kmap and
leverage the new core functions use of kmap_local_page().
The development of this patch was aided by the following coccinelle
script:
// <smpl>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
// Find kmap/memset/kunmap pattern and replace with memset*page calls
//
// NOTE: Offsets and other expressions may be more complex than what the script
// will automatically generate. Therefore a catchall rule is provided to find
// the pattern which then must be evaluated by hand.
//
// Confidence: Low
// Copyright: (C) 2021 Intel Corporation
// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
// Comments:
// Options:
//
// Then the memset pattern
//
@ memset_rule1 @
expression page, V, L, Off;
identifier ptr;
type VP;
@@
(
-VP ptr = kmap(page);
|
-ptr = kmap(page);
|
-VP ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
|
-ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
)
<+...
(
-memset(ptr, 0, L);
+memzero_page(page, 0, L);
|
-memset(ptr + Off, 0, L);
+memzero_page(page, Off, L);
|
-memset(ptr, V, L);
+memset_page(page, V, 0, L);
|
-memset(ptr + Off, V, L);
+memset_page(page, V, Off, L);
)
...+>
(
-kunmap(page);
|
-kunmap_atomic(ptr);
)
// Remove any pointers left unused
@
depends on memset_rule1
@
identifier memset_rule1.ptr;
type VP, VP1;
@@
-VP ptr;
... when != ptr;
? VP1 ptr;
//
// Catch all
//
@ memset_rule2 @
expression page;
identifier ptr;
expression GenTo, GenSize, GenValue;
type VP;
@@
(
-VP ptr = kmap(page);
|
-ptr = kmap(page);
|
-VP ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
|
-ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
)
<+...
(
//
// Some call sites have complex expressions within the memset/memcpy
// The follow are catch alls which need to be evaluated by hand.
//
-memset(GenTo, 0, GenSize);
+memzero_pageExtra(page, GenTo, GenSize);
|
-memset(GenTo, GenValue, GenSize);
+memset_pageExtra(page, GenValue, GenTo, GenSize);
)
...+>
(
-kunmap(page);
|
-kunmap_atomic(ptr);
)
// Remove any pointers left unused
@
depends on memset_rule2
@
identifier memset_rule2.ptr;
type VP, VP1;
@@
-VP ptr;
... when != ptr;
? VP1 ptr;
// </smpl>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210309212137.2610186-4-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are many places where the pattern kmap/memcpy/kunmap occurs.
This pattern was lifted to the core common functions
memcpy_[to|from]_page().
Use these new functions to reduce the code, eliminate direct uses of
kmap, and leverage the new core functions use of kmap_local_page().
Also, there is 1 place where a kmap/memcpy is followed by an
optional memset. Here we leave the kmap open coded to avoid remapping
the page but use kmap_local_page() directly.
Development of this patch was aided by the coccinelle script:
// <smpl>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
// Find kmap/memcpy/kunmap pattern and replace with memcpy*page calls
//
// NOTE: Offsets and other expressions may be more complex than what the script
// will automatically generate. Therefore a catchall rule is provided to find
// the pattern which then must be evaluated by hand.
//
// Confidence: Low
// Copyright: (C) 2021 Intel Corporation
// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
// Comments:
// Options:
//
// simple memcpy version
//
@ memcpy_rule1 @
expression page, T, F, B, Off;
identifier ptr;
type VP;
@@
(
-VP ptr = kmap(page);
|
-ptr = kmap(page);
|
-VP ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
|
-ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
)
<+...
(
-memcpy(ptr + Off, F, B);
+memcpy_to_page(page, Off, F, B);
|
-memcpy(ptr, F, B);
+memcpy_to_page(page, 0, F, B);
|
-memcpy(T, ptr + Off, B);
+memcpy_from_page(T, page, Off, B);
|
-memcpy(T, ptr, B);
+memcpy_from_page(T, page, 0, B);
)
...+>
(
-kunmap(page);
|
-kunmap_atomic(ptr);
)
// Remove any pointers left unused
@
depends on memcpy_rule1
@
identifier memcpy_rule1.ptr;
type VP, VP1;
@@
-VP ptr;
... when != ptr;
? VP1 ptr;
//
// Some callers kmap without a temp pointer
//
@ memcpy_rule2 @
expression page, T, Off, F, B;
@@
<+...
(
-memcpy(kmap(page) + Off, F, B);
+memcpy_to_page(page, Off, F, B);
|
-memcpy(kmap(page), F, B);
+memcpy_to_page(page, 0, F, B);
|
-memcpy(T, kmap(page) + Off, B);
+memcpy_from_page(T, page, Off, B);
|
-memcpy(T, kmap(page), B);
+memcpy_from_page(T, page, 0, B);
)
...+>
-kunmap(page);
// No need for the ptr variable removal
//
// Catch all
//
@ memcpy_rule3 @
expression page;
expression GenTo, GenFrom, GenSize;
identifier ptr;
type VP;
@@
(
-VP ptr = kmap(page);
|
-ptr = kmap(page);
|
-VP ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
|
-ptr = kmap_atomic(page);
)
<+...
(
//
// Some call sites have complex expressions within the memcpy
// match a catch all to be evaluated by hand.
//
-memcpy(GenTo, GenFrom, GenSize);
+memcpy_to_pageExtra(page, GenTo, GenFrom, GenSize);
+memcpy_from_pageExtra(GenTo, page, GenFrom, GenSize);
)
...+>
(
-kunmap(page);
|
-kunmap_atomic(ptr);
)
// Remove any pointers left unused
@
depends on memcpy_rule3
@
identifier memcpy_rule3.ptr;
type VP, VP1;
@@
-VP ptr;
... when != ptr;
? VP1 ptr;
// <smpl>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Replace indirect calls to free_workspace by switch and calls to the
specific callbacks. This is mainly to get rid of the indirection due to
spectre vulnerability mitigations.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Replace indirect calls to alloc_workspace by switch and calls to the
specific callbacks. This is mainly to get rid of the indirection due to
spectre vulnerability mitigations.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Similar to get_workspace, majority of the callbacks is trivial, we don't
gain anything by the indirection, so replace them by a switch function.
Trivial callback implementations use the helper.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Majority of the callbacks is trivial, we don't gain anything by the
indirection, so replace them by a switch function.
ZLIB needs to adjust level in the callback and ZSTD workspace management
is complex, the rest is call to the helper.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The indirect calls will be replaced by a switch in compression.c.
(Switch is faster than indirect calls with when Spectre mitigations are
enabled).
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Replace loop calling to all algos with a list of direct calls to the
cleanup manager callback. When that becomes trivial it is replaced by
direct call to the helper.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Replace loop calling to all algos with a list of direct calls to the
init manager callback. When that becomes trivial it is replaced by
direct call to the helper.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
There's a lot of indirection when the generic code calls into
algo-specific callbacks to reach the private workspace manager structure
and back to the generic code.
To simplify that, export the workspace manager for heuristic, LZO and
ZLIB, while ZSTD is going to use it's own manager.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The indirect calls bring some overhead due to spectre vulnerability
mitigations. The number of cases is small and below the threshold
(10-20) where indirect call would be better.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Export compress_pages, decompress_bio and decompress callbacks for all
compression algos. The indirect calls will be replaced by a switch.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The file ctree.h serves as a header for everything and has become quite
bloated. Split some helpers that are generic and create a new file that
should be the catch-all for code that's not btrfs-specific.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The set_level callbacks do not do anything special and can be replaced
by a helper that uses the levels defined in the tables.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The maximum and default levels do not change and can be defined
directly. The set_level callback was a temporary solution and will be
removed.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
While calling functions inside zstd, we don't need to use the
indirection provided by the workspace_manager. Forward declarations are
added to maintain the function order of btrfs_compress_op.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The timer function, zstd_reclaim_timer_fn(), reschedules itself under
certain conditions. When cleaning up, take the lock and remove all
workspaces. This prevents the timer from rearming itself. Lastly, switch
to del_timer_sync() to ensure that the timer function can't trigger as
we're unloading.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Zstd compression requires different amounts of memory for each level of
compression. The prior patches implemented indirection to allow for each
compression type to manage their workspaces independently. This patch
uses this indirection to implement compression level support for zstd.
To manage the additional memory require, each compression level has its
own queue of workspaces. A global LRU is used to help with reclaim.
Reclaim is done via a timer which provides a mechanism to decrease
memory utilization by keeping only workspaces around that are sized
appropriately. Forward progress is guaranteed by a preallocated max
workspace hidden from the LRU.
When getting a workspace, it uses a bitmap to identify the levels that
are populated and scans up. If it finds a workspace that is greater than
it, it uses it, but does not update the last_used time and the
corresponding place in the LRU. If we hit memory pressure, we sleep on
the max level workspace. We continue to rescan in case we can use a
smaller workspace, but eventually should be able to obtain the max level
workspace or allocate one again should memory pressure subside.
The memory requirement for decompression is the same as level 1, and
therefore can use any of available workspace.
The number of workspaces is bound by an upper limit of the workqueue's
limit which currently is 2 (percpu limit). The reclaim timer is used to
free inactive/improperly sized workspaces and is set to 307s to avoid
colliding with transaction commit (every 30s).
Repeating the experiment from v2 [1], the Silesia corpus was copied to a
btrfs filesystem 10 times and then read back after dropping the caches.
The btrfs filesystem was on an SSD.
Level Ratio Compression (MB/s) Decompression (MB/s) Memory (KB)
1 2.658 438.47 910.51 780
2 2.744 364.86 886.55 1004
3 2.801 336.33 828.41 1260
4 2.858 286.71 886.55 1260
5 2.916 212.77 556.84 1388
6 2.363 119.82 990.85 1516
7 3.000 154.06 849.30 1516
8 3.011 159.54 875.03 1772
9 3.025 100.51 940.15 1772
10 3.033 118.97 616.26 1772
11 3.036 94.19 802.11 1772
12 3.037 73.45 931.49 1772
13 3.041 55.17 835.26 2284
14 3.087 44.70 716.78 2547
15 3.126 37.30 878.84 2547
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20181031181108.289340-1-terrelln@fb.com/
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
It is possible based on the level configurations that a higher level
workspace uses less memory than a lower level workspace. In order to
reuse workspaces, this must be made a monotonic relationship. This
precomputes the required memory for each level and enforces the
monotonicity between level and memory required. This is also done
in upstream zstd in [1].
[1] a68b76afef
Cc: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Zstd currently only supports the default level of compression. This
patch switches to using the level passed in for btrfs zstd
configuration.
Zstd workspaces now keep track of the requested level as this can differ
from the size of the workspace.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Currently, the only user of set_level() is zlib which sets an internal
workspace parameter. As level is now plumbed into get_workspace(), this
can be handled there rather than separately.
This repurposes set_level() to bound the level passed in so it can be
used when setting the mounts compression level and as well as verifying
the level before getting a workspace. The other benefit is this divides
the meaning of compress(0) and get_workspace(0). The former means we
want to use the default compression level of the compression type. The
latter means we can use any workspace available.
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Zlib compression supports multiple levels, but doesn't require changing
in how a workspace itself is created and managed. Zstd introduces a
different memory requirement such that higher levels of compression
require more memory.
This requires changes in how the alloc()/get() methods work for zstd.
This pach plumbs compression level through the interface as a parameter
in preparation for zstd compression levels. This gives the compression
types opportunity to create/manage based on the compression level.
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
The previous patch added generic helpers for get_workspace() and
put_workspace(). Now, we can migrate ownership of the workspace_manager
to be in the compression type code as the compression code itself
doesn't care beyond being able to get a workspace. The init/cleanup and
get/put methods are abstracted so each compression algorithm can decide
how they want to manage their workspaces.
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Remove GPL boilerplate text (long, short, one-line) and keep the rest,
ie. personal, company or original source copyright statements. Add the
SPDX header.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
* ZSTD_inBuffer in_buf
* ZSTD_outBuffer out_buf
are used in all functions to pass the compression parameters and the
local variables consume some space. We can move them to the workspace
and reduce the stack consumption:
zstd.c:zstd_decompress -24 (136 -> 112)
zstd.c:zstd_decompress_bio -24 (144 -> 120)
zstd.c:zstd_compress_pages -24 (264 -> 240)
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Preliminary support for setting compression level for zlib, the
following works:
$ mount -o compess=zlib # default
$ mount -o compess=zlib0 # same
$ mount -o compess=zlib9 # level 9, slower sync, less data
$ mount -o compess=zlib1 # level 1, faster sync, more data
$ mount -o remount,compress=zlib3 # level set by remount
The compress-force works the same as compress'. The level is visible in
the same format in /proc/mounts. Level set via file property does not
work yet.
Required patch: "btrfs: prepare for extensions in compression options"
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Add zstd compression and decompression support to BtrFS. zstd at its
fastest level compresses almost as well as zlib, while offering much
faster compression and decompression, approaching lzo speeds.
I benchmarked btrfs with zstd compression against no compression, lzo
compression, and zlib compression. I benchmarked two scenarios. Copying
a set of files to btrfs, and then reading the files. Copying a tarball
to btrfs, extracting it to btrfs, and then reading the extracted files.
After every operation, I call `sync` and include the sync time.
Between every pair of operations I unmount and remount the filesystem
to avoid caching. The benchmark files can be found in the upstream
zstd source repository under
`contrib/linux-kernel/{btrfs-benchmark.sh,btrfs-extract-benchmark.sh}`
[1] [2].
I ran the benchmarks on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM with 2 cores and 4 GiB of RAM.
The VM is running on a MacBook Pro with a 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7 processor,
16 GB of RAM, and a SSD.
The first compression benchmark is copying 10 copies of the unzipped
Silesia corpus [3] into a BtrFS filesystem mounted with
`-o compress-force=Method`. The decompression benchmark times how long
it takes to `tar` all 10 copies into `/dev/null`. The compression ratio is
measured by comparing the output of `df` and `du`. See the benchmark file
[1] for details. I benchmarked multiple zstd compression levels, although
the patch uses zstd level 1.
| Method | Ratio | Compression MB/s | Decompression speed |
|---------|-------|------------------|---------------------|
| None | 0.99 | 504 | 686 |
| lzo | 1.66 | 398 | 442 |
| zlib | 2.58 | 65 | 241 |
| zstd 1 | 2.57 | 260 | 383 |
| zstd 3 | 2.71 | 174 | 408 |
| zstd 6 | 2.87 | 70 | 398 |
| zstd 9 | 2.92 | 43 | 406 |
| zstd 12 | 2.93 | 21 | 408 |
| zstd 15 | 3.01 | 11 | 354 |
The next benchmark first copies `linux-4.11.6.tar` [4] to btrfs. Then it
measures the compression ratio, extracts the tar, and deletes the tar.
Then it measures the compression ratio again, and `tar`s the extracted
files into `/dev/null`. See the benchmark file [2] for details.
| Method | Tar Ratio | Extract Ratio | Copy (s) | Extract (s)| Read (s) |
|--------|-----------|---------------|----------|------------|----------|
| None | 0.97 | 0.78 | 0.981 | 5.501 | 8.807 |
| lzo | 2.06 | 1.38 | 1.631 | 8.458 | 8.585 |
| zlib | 3.40 | 1.86 | 7.750 | 21.544 | 11.744 |
| zstd 1 | 3.57 | 1.85 | 2.579 | 11.479 | 9.389 |
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/btrfs-benchmark.sh
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/linux-kernel/btrfs-extract-benchmark.sh
[3] http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
[4] https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-4.11.6.tar.xz
zstd source repository: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Nick Terrell