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, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/sys/dnode.h b/include/sys/dnode.h
index 3f560a7fe..50e339915 100644
--- a/include/sys/dnode.h
+++ b/include/sys/dnode.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2005, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright (c) 2012, 2014 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, 2016 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2014 Spectra Logic Corporation, All rights reserved.
  */
 
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ typedef struct dnode_phys {
 #define	DN_SPILL_BLKPTR(dnp)	(blkptr_t *)((char *)(dnp) + \
 	(((dnp)->dn_extra_slots + 1) << DNODE_SHIFT) - (1 << SPA_BLKPTRSHIFT))
 
-typedef struct dnode {
+struct dnode {
 	/*
 	 * Protects the structure of the dnode, including the number of levels
 	 * of indirection (dn_nlevels), dn_maxblkid, and dn_next_*
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ typedef struct dnode {
 
 	/* holds prefetch structure */
 	struct zfetch	dn_zfetch;
-} dnode_t;
+};
 
 /*
  * Adds a level of indirection between the dbuf and the dnode to avoid