Re: Ocfs2 performance bugs of doom

From: Daniel Phillips
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 20:26:00 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Daniel Phillips <phillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
assert_spin_locked(&dlm->spinlock);
+ bucket = dlm->lockres_hash + full_name_hash(name, len) % DLM_HASH_BUCKETS;

- hash = full_name_hash(name, len);

err, you might want to calculate that hash outside the spinlock.

Yah.

Maybe have a lock per bucket, too.

So the lock memory is as much as the hash table? ;-)

A 1MB hashtable is verging on comical. How may data are there in total?

Even with the 256K entry hash table, __dlm_lookup_lockres is still the
top systime gobbler:

-------------
real 31.01
user 25.29
sys 3.09
-------------

CPU: P4 / Xeon, speed 2793.37 MHz (estimated)
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 240000
samples % image name app name symbol name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17071831 71.2700 libbz2.so.1.0.2 libbz2.so.1.0.2 (no symbols)
17071831 100.000 libbz2.so.1.0.2 libbz2.so.1.0.2 (no symbols) [self]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2638066 11.0132 vmlinux vmlinux __dlm_lookup_lockres
2638066 100.000 vmlinux vmlinux __dlm_lookup_lockres [self]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
332683 1.3889 oprofiled oprofiled (no symbols)
332683 100.000 oprofiled oprofiled (no symbols) [self]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
254736 1.0634 vmlinux vmlinux ocfs2_local_alloc_count_bits
254736 100.000 vmlinux vmlinux ocfs2_local_alloc_count_bits [self]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
176794 0.7381 tar tar (no symbols)
176794 100.000 tar tar (no symbols) [self]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note, this is uniprocessor, single node on a local disk. Something
pretty badly broken all right. Tomorrow I will take a look at the hash
distribution and see what's up.

I guess there are about 250k symbols in the table before purging
finally kicks in, which happens 5th or 6th time I untar a kernel tree.
So, 20,000 names times 5-6 times the three locks per inode Mark
mentioned. I'll actually measure that tomorrow instead of inferring
it.

I think this table is per-ocfs2-mount, and really really, a meg is
nothing if it makes CPU cycles go away. That's .05% of the memory
on this box, which is a small box where clusters are concerned. But
there is also some gratuitous cpu suck still happening in there that
needs investigating. I would not be surprised at all to learn that
full_name_hash is a terrible hash function.

Regards,

Daniel
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/