Re: [PATCH] btrfs: add zstd compression level support

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:06:21PM -0700, Nick Terrell wrote:
> From: Jennifer Liu <jenniferliu620@xxxxxx>
> 
> Adds zstd compression level support to btrfs. Zstd requires
> different amounts of memory for each level, so the design had
> to be modified to allow set_level() to allocate memory. We
> preallocate one workspace of the maximum size to guarantee
> forward progress. This feature is expected to be useful for
> read-mostly filesystems, or when creating images.
> 
> Benchmarks run in qemu on Intel x86 with a single core.
> The benchmark measures the time to copy the Silesia corpus [0] to
> a btrfs filesystem 10 times, then read it back.
> 
> The two important things to note are:
> - The decompression speed and memory remains constant.
>   The memory required to decompress is the same as level 1.
> - The compression speed and ratio will vary based on the source.
> 
> Level	Ratio	Compression	Decompression	Compression Memory
> 1    	2.59 	153 MB/s   	112 MB/s     	0.8 MB
> 2    	2.67 	136 MB/s   	113 MB/s     	1.0 MB
> 3    	2.72 	106 MB/s   	115 MB/s     	1.3 MB
> 4    	2.78 	86  MB/s   	109 MB/s     	0.9 MB
> 5    	2.83 	69  MB/s   	109 MB/s     	1.4 MB
> 6    	2.89 	53  MB/s   	110 MB/s     	1.5 MB
> 7    	2.91 	40  MB/s   	112 MB/s     	1.4 MB
> 8    	2.92 	34  MB/s   	110 MB/s     	1.8 MB
> 9    	2.93 	27  MB/s   	109 MB/s     	1.8 MB
> 10   	2.94 	22  MB/s   	109 MB/s     	1.8 MB
> 11   	2.95 	17  MB/s   	114 MB/s     	1.8 MB
> 12   	2.95 	13  MB/s   	113 MB/s     	1.8 MB
> 13   	2.95 	10  MB/s   	111 MB/s     	2.3 MB
> 14   	2.99 	7   MB/s   	110 MB/s     	2.6 MB
> 15   	3.03 	6   MB/s   	110 MB/s     	2.6 MB
> 
> [0] http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia

Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Jennifer Liu <jenniferliu620@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/compression.c | 172 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  fs/btrfs/compression.h |  18 +++--
>  fs/btrfs/lzo.c         |   5 +-
>  fs/btrfs/super.c       |   7 +-
>  fs/btrfs/zlib.c        |  33 ++++----
>  fs/btrfs/zstd.c        |  74 ++++++++++++++----
>  6 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
> index 2955a4ea2fa8..bd8e69381dc9 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
> @@ -822,11 +822,15 @@ void __init btrfs_init_compress(void)
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Preallocate one workspace for each compression type so
> -		 * we can guarantee forward progress in the worst case
> +		 * we can guarantee forward progress in the worst case.
> +		 * Provide the maximum compression level to guarantee large
> +		 * enough workspace.
>  		 */
> -		workspace = btrfs_compress_op[i]->alloc_workspace();
> +		workspace = btrfs_compress_op[i]->alloc_workspace(
> +				btrfs_compress_op[i]->max_level);
>  		if (IS_ERR(workspace)) {
> -			pr_warn("BTRFS: cannot preallocate compression workspace, will try later\n");
> +			pr_warn("BTRFS: cannot preallocate compression "
> +				"workspace, will try later\n");

Nit: since you didn't change this line, don't rewrap it.



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