btrfs: avoid logging all directory changes during renames

When doing a rename of a file, if the file or its old parent directory
were logged before, we log the new name of the file and then make sure
we log the old parent directory, to ensure that after a log replay the
old name of the file is deleted and the new name added.

The logging of the old parent directory can take some time, because it
will scan all leaves modified in the current transaction, check which
directory entries were already logged, copy the ones that were not
logged before, etc. In this rename context all we need to do is make
sure that the old name of the file is deleted on log replay, so instead
of triggering a directory log operation, we can just delete the old
directory entry from the log if it's there, or in case it isn't there,
just log a range item to signal log replay that the old name must be
deleted. So change btrfs_log_new_name() to do that.

This scenario is actually not uncommon to trigger, and recently on a
5.15 kernel, an openSUSE Tumbleweed user reported package installations
and upgrades, with the zypper tool, were often taking a long time to
complete, much more than usual. With strace it could be observed that
zypper was spending over 99% of its time on rename operations, and then
with further analysis we checked that directory logging was happening
too frequently and causing high latencies for the rename operations.
Taking into account that installation/upgrade of some of these packages
needed about a few thousand file renames, the slowdown was very noticeable
for the user.

The issue was caused indirectly due to an excessive number of inode
evictions on a 5.15 kernel, about 100x more compared to a 5.13, 5.14
or a 5.16-rc8 kernel. After an inode eviction we can't tell for sure,
in an efficient way, if an inode was previously logged in the current
transaction, so we are pessimistic and assume it was, because in case
it was we need to update the logged inode. More details on that in one
of the patches in the same series (subject "btrfs: avoid inode logging
during rename and link when possible"). Either way, in case the parent
directory was logged before, we currently do more work then necessary
during a rename, and this change minimizes that amount of work.

The following script mimics part of what a package installation/upgrade
with zypper does, which is basically renaming a lot of files, in some
directory under /usr, to a name with a suffix of "-RPMDELETE":

  $ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  DEV=/dev/nvme0n1
  MNT=/mnt/nvme0n1

  NUM_FILES=10000

  mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
  mount $DEV $MNT

  mkdir $MNT/testdir

  for ((i = 1; i <= $NUM_FILES; i++)); do
      echo -n > $MNT/testdir/file_$i
  done

  sync

  # Do some change to testdir and fsync it.
  echo -n > $MNT/testdir/file_$((NUM_FILES + 1))
  xfs_io -c "fsync" $MNT/testdir

  echo "Renaming $NUM_FILES files..."
  start=$(date +%s%N)
  for ((i = 1; i <= $NUM_FILES; i++)); do
      mv $MNT/testdir/file_$i $MNT/testdir/file_$i-RPMDELETE
  done
  end=$(date +%s%N)

  dur=$(( (end - start) / 1000000 ))
  echo "Renames took $dur milliseconds"

  umount $MNT

Testing this change on box using a non-debug kernel (Debian's default
kernel config) gave the following results:

NUM_FILES=10000, before this patch: 27399 ms
NUM_FILES=10000, after this patch:   9093 ms (-66.8%)

NUM_FILES=5000, before this patch:   9241 ms
NUM_FILES=5000, after this patch:    4642 ms (-49.8%)

NUM_FILES=2000, before this patch:   2550 ms
NUM_FILES=2000, after this patch:    1788 ms (-29.9%)

NUM_FILES=1000, before this patch:   1088 ms
NUM_FILES=1000, after this patch:     905 ms (-16.9%)

Link: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1193549
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.h b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.h
index e69411f308ed..f1acb7fa944c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.h
@@ -87,6 +87,6 @@ void btrfs_record_snapshot_destroy(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 				   struct btrfs_inode *dir);
 void btrfs_log_new_name(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			struct dentry *old_dentry, struct btrfs_inode *old_dir,
-			struct dentry *parent);
+			u64 old_dir_index, struct dentry *parent);
 
 #endif