OpenZFS 7004 - dmu_tx_hold_zap() does dnode_hold() 7x on same object

Using a benchmark which has 32 threads creating 2 million files in the
same directory, on a machine with 16 CPU cores, I observed poor
performance. I noticed that dmu_tx_hold_zap() was using about 30% of
all CPU, and doing dnode_hold() 7 times on the same object (the ZAP
object that is being held).

dmu_tx_hold_zap() keeps a hold on the dnode_t the entire time it is
running, in dmu_tx_hold_t:txh_dnode, so it would be nice to use the
dnode_t that we already have in hand, rather than repeatedly calling
dnode_hold(). To do this, we need to pass the dnode_t down through
all the intermediate calls that dmu_tx_hold_zap() makes, making these
routines take the dnode_t* rather than an objset_t* and a uint64_t
object number. In particular, the following routines will need to have
analogous *_by_dnode() variants created:

dmu_buf_hold_noread()
dmu_buf_hold()
zap_lookup()
zap_lookup_norm()
zap_count_write()
zap_lockdir()
zap_count_write()

This can improve performance on the benchmark described above by 100%,
from 30,000 file creations per second to 60,000. (This improvement is on
top of that provided by working around the object allocation issue. Peak
performance of ~90,000 creations per second was observed with 8 CPUs;
adding CPUs past that decreased performance due to lock contention.) The
CPU used by dmu_tx_hold_zap() was reduced by 88%, from 340 CPU-seconds
to 40 CPU-seconds.

Sponsored by: Intel Corp.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>

OpenZFS-issue: https://www.illumos.org/issues/7004
OpenZFS-commit: https://github.com/openzfs/openzfs/pull/109
Closes #4641
Closes #4972

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/sys/dmu.h b/include/sys/dmu.h
index 98da92890..a8ed2868f 100644
--- a/include/sys/dmu.h
+++ b/include/sys/dmu.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2005, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2014 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2016 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright 2011 Nexenta Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2012, Joyent, Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright 2014 HybridCluster. All rights reserved.
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct sa_handle;
 typedef struct objset objset_t;
 typedef struct dmu_tx dmu_tx_t;
 typedef struct dsl_dir dsl_dir_t;
+typedef struct dnode dnode_t;
 
 typedef enum dmu_object_byteswap {
 	DMU_BSWAP_UINT8,
@@ -420,7 +421,7 @@ dmu_write_embedded(objset_t *os, uint64_t object, uint64_t offset,
 #define	WP_DMU_SYNC	0x2
 #define	WP_SPILL	0x4
 
-void dmu_write_policy(objset_t *os, struct dnode *dn, int level, int wp,
+void dmu_write_policy(objset_t *os, dnode_t *dn, int level, int wp,
     struct zio_prop *zp);
 /*
  * The bonus data is accessed more or less like a regular buffer.
@@ -446,7 +447,7 @@ int dmu_rm_spill(objset_t *, uint64_t, dmu_tx_t *);
  */
 
 int dmu_spill_hold_by_bonus(dmu_buf_t *bonus, void *tag, dmu_buf_t **dbp);
-int dmu_spill_hold_by_dnode(struct dnode *dn, uint32_t flags,
+int dmu_spill_hold_by_dnode(dnode_t *dn, uint32_t flags,
     void *tag, dmu_buf_t **dbp);
 int dmu_spill_hold_existing(dmu_buf_t *bonus, void *tag, dmu_buf_t **dbp);
 
@@ -466,6 +467,8 @@ int dmu_spill_hold_existing(dmu_buf_t *bonus, void *tag, dmu_buf_t **dbp);
  */
 int dmu_buf_hold(objset_t *os, uint64_t object, uint64_t offset,
     void *tag, dmu_buf_t **, int flags);
+int dmu_buf_hold_by_dnode(dnode_t *dn, uint64_t offset,
+    void *tag, dmu_buf_t **dbp, int flags);
 
 /*
  * Add a reference to a dmu buffer that has already been held via
@@ -620,6 +623,8 @@ void *dmu_buf_remove_user(dmu_buf_t *db, dmu_buf_user_t *user);
 void *dmu_buf_get_user(dmu_buf_t *db);
 
 objset_t *dmu_buf_get_objset(dmu_buf_t *db);
+dnode_t *dmu_buf_dnode_enter(dmu_buf_t *db);
+void dmu_buf_dnode_exit(dmu_buf_t *db);
 
 /* Block until any in-progress dmu buf user evictions complete. */
 void dmu_buf_user_evict_wait(void);
@@ -799,7 +804,7 @@ extern const dmu_object_byteswap_info_t dmu_ot_byteswap[DMU_BSWAP_NUMFUNCS];
 int dmu_object_info(objset_t *os, uint64_t object, dmu_object_info_t *doi);
 void __dmu_object_info_from_dnode(struct dnode *dn, dmu_object_info_t *doi);
 /* Like dmu_object_info, but faster if you have a held dnode in hand. */
-void dmu_object_info_from_dnode(struct dnode *dn, dmu_object_info_t *doi);
+void dmu_object_info_from_dnode(dnode_t *dn, dmu_object_info_t *doi);
 /* Like dmu_object_info, but faster if you have a held dbuf in hand. */
 void dmu_object_info_from_db(dmu_buf_t *db, dmu_object_info_t *doi);
 /*