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of a file in chunks that are less then the filesystem block size, if the
data is not already cached the system will perform a read-before-write.
The problem is that it does this on a block-by-block basis, breaking up the
I/Os and making clustering impossible for the writes. Programs such
as INN using cyclic file buffers suffer greatly. This problem is only going
to get worse as we use larger and larger filesystem block sizes.
The solution is to extend the sequential heuristic so UFS[2] can perform
a far larger read and readahead when dealing with this case.
(note: maximum disk write bandwidth is 27MB/sec thru filesystem)
(note: filesystem blocksize in test is 8K (1K frag))
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dat bs=1k count=2m conv=notrunc
Before: (note half of these are reads)
tty da0 da1 acd0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
0 76 14.21 598 8.30 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 7 1 92
0 76 14.09 813 11.19 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 9 5 86
0 76 14.28 821 11.45 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 8 1 91
After: (note half of these are reads)
tty da0 da1 acd0 cpu
tin tout KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s KB/t tps MB/s us ni sy in id
0 76 63.62 434 26.99 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 18 1 80
0 76 63.58 424 26.30 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 0 0 17 2 82
0 76 63.82 438 27.32 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 1 0 19 2 79
Reviewed by: mckusick
Approved by: re
X-MFC after: immediately (was heavily tested in -stable for 4 months)
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| ffs_extern.h | ||
| ffs_inode.c | ||
| ffs_snapshot.c | ||
| ffs_softdep_stub.c | ||
| ffs_softdep.c | ||
| ffs_subr.c | ||
| ffs_tables.c | ||
| ffs_vfsops.c | ||
| ffs_vnops.c | ||
| fs.h | ||
| README.snapshot | ||
| README.softupdates | ||
| softdep.h | ||
$FreeBSD$ Using Soft Updates To enable the soft updates feature in your kernel, add option SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration. Once you are running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy. This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems, e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like: tunefs -n enable /usr To permanently enable soft updates on the /usr filesystem (or at least until a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done). Soft Updates Copyright Restrictions As of June 2000 the restrictive copyright has been removed and replaced with a `Berkeley-style' copyright. The files implementing soft updates now reside in the sys/ufs/ffs directory and are compiled into the generic kernel by default. Soft Updates Status The soft updates code has been running in production on many systems for the past two years generally quite successfully. The two current sets of shortcomings are: 1) On filesystems that are chronically full, the two minute lag from the time a file is deleted until its free space shows up will result in premature filesystem full failures. This failure mode is most evident in small filesystems such as the root. For this reason, use of soft updates is not recommended on the root filesystem. 2) If your system routines runs parallel processes each of which remove many files, the kernel memory rate limiting code may not be able to slow removal operations to a level sustainable by the disk subsystem. The result is that the kernel runs out of memory and hangs. Both of these problems are being addressed, but have not yet been resolved. There are no other known problems at this time. How Soft Updates Work For more general information on soft updates, please see: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ -- Marshall Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> July 2000