xfs: type verification is expensive
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:52:05 +0000 (09:52 -0700)
committerDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:47:51 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
commitec08c14ba28ce073b3f63c8edbee0f3c38e1b6a1
treed561191b8fcff1f25ebe1ed301af065775c624ad
parent929f8b0deb8365122826135b36ddae55b12b4852
xfs: type verification is expensive

From a concurrent rm -rf workload:

  41.04%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir3_leaf_check_int
   9.85%  [kernel]  [k] __xfs_dir3_data_check
   5.60%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_verify_ino
   5.32%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_agino_range
   4.21%  [kernel]  [k] memcpy
   3.06%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_errortag_test
   2.57%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir_ino_validate
   1.66%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir2_data_get_ftype
   1.17%  [kernel]  [k] do_raw_spin_lock
   1.11%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_verify_dir_ino
   0.84%  [kernel]  [k] __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock
   0.83%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_buf_find
   0.64%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_log_commit_cil

THere's an awful lot of overhead in just range checking inode
numbers in that, but each inode number check is not a lot of code.
The total is a bit over 14.5% of the CPU time is spent validating
inode numbers.

The problem is that they deeply nested global scope functions so the
overhead here is all in function call marshalling.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2077       0       0    2077     81d fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_types.o.orig
   2197       0       0    2197     895 fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_types.o

There's a small increase in binary size by inlining all the local
nested calls in the verifier functions, but the same workload now
profiles as:

  40.69%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir3_leaf_check_int
  10.52%  [kernel]  [k] __xfs_dir3_data_check
   6.68%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_verify_dir_ino
   4.22%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_errortag_test
   4.15%  [kernel]  [k] memcpy
   3.53%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir_ino_validate
   1.87%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_dir2_data_get_ftype
   1.37%  [kernel]  [k] do_raw_spin_lock
   0.98%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_buf_find
   0.94%  [kernel]  [k] __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] xfs_log_commit_cil

Now we only spend just over 10% of the time validing inode numbers
for the same workload. Hence a few "inline" keyworks is good enough
to reduce the validation overhead by 30%...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_types.c