a724f313f8
In the search loop of the binary search function, we are doing a division
by 2 of the sum of the high and low slots. Because the slots are integers,
the generated assembly code for it is the following on x86_64:
0x00000000000141f1 <+145>: mov %eax,%ebx
0x00000000000141f3 <+147>: shr $0x1f,%ebx
0x00000000000141f6 <+150>: add %eax,%ebx
0x00000000000141f8 <+152>: sar %ebx
It's a few more instructions than a simple right shift, because signed
integer division needs to round towards zero. However we know that slots
can never be negative (btrfs_header_nritems() returns an u32), so we
can instead use unsigned types for the low and high slots and therefore
use unsigned integer division, which results in a single instruction on
x86_64:
0x00000000000141f0 <+144>: shr %ebx
So use unsigned types for the slots and therefore unsigned division.
This is part of a small patchset comprised of the following two patches:
btrfs: eliminate extra call when doing binary search on extent buffer
btrfs: do unsigned integer division in the extent buffer binary search loop
The following fs_mark test was run on a non-debug kernel (Debian's default
kernel config) before and after applying the patchset:
$ cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
DEV=/dev/sdi
MNT=/mnt/sdi
MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd"
MKFS_OPTIONS="-O no-holes -R free-space-tree"
FILES=100000
THREADS=$(nproc --all)
FILE_SIZE=0
umount $DEV &> /dev/null
mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV
mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT
OPTS="-S 0 -L 6 -n $FILES -s $FILE_SIZE -t $THREADS -k"
for ((i = 1; i <= $THREADS; i++)); do
OPTS="$OPTS -d $MNT/d$i"
done
fs_mark $OPTS
umount $MNT
Results before applying patchset:
FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
2 1200000 0 174472.0 11549868
4 2400000 0 253503.0 11694618
4 3600000 0 257833.1 11611508
6 4800000 0 247089.5 11665983
6 6000000 0 211296.1 12121244
10 7200000 0 187330.6 12548565
Results after applying patchset:
FSUse% Count Size Files/sec App Overhead
2 1200000 0 207556.0 11393252
4 2400000 0 266751.1 11347909
4 3600000 0 274397.5 11270058
6 4800000 0 259608.4 11442250
6 6000000 0 238895.8 11635921
8 7200000 0 211942.2 11873825
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.