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Btrfs: add readahead for send_write

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Btrfs send reads data from disk and then writes to a stream via pipe or
a file via flush.

Currently we're going to read each page a time, so every page results
in a disk read, which is not friendly to disks, esp. HDD.  Given that,
the performance can be gained by adding readahead for those pages.

Here is a quick test:
$ btrfs subvolume create send
$ xfs_io -f -c "pwrite 0 1G" send/foobar
$ btrfs subvolume snap -r send ro
$ time "btrfs send ro -f /dev/null"

           w/o             w
real    1m37.527s       0m9.097s
user    0m0.122s        0m0.086s
sys     0m53.191s       0m12.857s

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
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Liu Bo 2014-03-05 10:07:35 +08:00 committed by Josef Bacik
parent a4d96d6254
commit 2131bcd38b
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fs/btrfs/send.c
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@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ struct send_ctx {
struct list_head name_cache_list;
int name_cache_size;
struct file_ra_state ra;
char *read_buf;
/*
@ -4170,6 +4172,13 @@ static ssize_t fill_read_buf(struct send_ctx *sctx, u64 offset, u32 len)
goto out;
last_index = (offset + len - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
/* initial readahead */
memset(&sctx->ra, 0, sizeof(struct file_ra_state));
file_ra_state_init(&sctx->ra, inode->i_mapping);
btrfs_force_ra(inode->i_mapping, &sctx->ra, NULL, index,
last_index - index + 1);
while (index <= last_index) {
unsigned cur_len = min_t(unsigned, len,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - pg_offset);