xfs: only run xfs_error_test if error injection is active
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:15:31 +0000 (15:15 +1100)
committerAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:40:20 +0000 (07:40 -0600)
Recent tests writing lots of small files showed the flusher thread
being CPU bound and taking a long time to do allocations on a debug
kernel. perf showed this as the prime reason:

             samples  pcnt function                    DSO
             _______ _____ ___________________________ _________________

           224648.00 36.8% xfs_error_test              [kernel.kallsyms]
            86045.00 14.1% xfs_btree_check_sblock      [kernel.kallsyms]
            39778.00  6.5% prandom32                   [kernel.kallsyms]
            37436.00  6.1% xfs_btree_increment         [kernel.kallsyms]
            29278.00  4.8% xfs_btree_get_rec           [kernel.kallsyms]
            27717.00  4.5% random32                    [kernel.kallsyms]

Walking btree blocks during allocation checking them requires each
block (a cache hit, so no I/O) call xfs_error_test(), which then
does a random32() call as the first operation.  IOWs, ~50% of the
CPU is being consumed just testing whether we need to inject an
error, even though error injection is not active.

Kill this overhead when error injection is not active by adding a
global counter of active error traps and only calling into
xfs_error_test when fault injection is active.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
fs/xfs/xfs_error.c
fs/xfs/xfs_error.h

index ed99902676615e166a8e08371bf79c3a33d98021..c78cc6a3d87c0bb061092564c9f27c52d48519fa 100644 (file)
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ xfs_error_trap(int e)
 int    xfs_etest[XFS_NUM_INJECT_ERROR];
 int64_t        xfs_etest_fsid[XFS_NUM_INJECT_ERROR];
 char * xfs_etest_fsname[XFS_NUM_INJECT_ERROR];
+int    xfs_error_test_active;
 
 int
 xfs_error_test(int error_tag, int *fsidp, char *expression,
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ xfs_errortag_add(int error_tag, xfs_mount_t *mp)
                        len = strlen(mp->m_fsname);
                        xfs_etest_fsname[i] = kmem_alloc(len + 1, KM_SLEEP);
                        strcpy(xfs_etest_fsname[i], mp->m_fsname);
+                       xfs_error_test_active++;
                        return 0;
                }
        }
@@ -137,6 +139,7 @@ xfs_errortag_clearall(xfs_mount_t *mp, int loud)
                        xfs_etest_fsid[i] = 0LL;
                        kmem_free(xfs_etest_fsname[i]);
                        xfs_etest_fsname[i] = NULL;
+                       xfs_error_test_active--;
                }
        }
 
index c2c1a072bb82493bc210c50c9f6980633f8c9732..f338847f80b8d36c5c017214ec9538dab795459b 100644 (file)
@@ -127,13 +127,14 @@ extern void xfs_corruption_error(const char *tag, int level,
 #define        XFS_RANDOM_BMAPIFORMAT                          XFS_RANDOM_DEFAULT
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
+extern int xfs_error_test_active;
 extern int xfs_error_test(int, int *, char *, int, char *, unsigned long);
 
 #define        XFS_NUM_INJECT_ERROR                            10
 #define XFS_TEST_ERROR(expr, mp, tag, rf)              \
-       ((expr) || \
+       ((expr) || (xfs_error_test_active && \
         xfs_error_test((tag), (mp)->m_fixedfsid, "expr", __LINE__, __FILE__, \
-                       (rf)))
+                       (rf))))
 
 extern int xfs_errortag_add(int error_tag, xfs_mount_t *mp);
 extern int xfs_errortag_clearall(xfs_mount_t *mp, int loud);