btrfs: stop copying old dir items when logging a directory

btrfs: stop copying old dir items when logging a directory

When logging a directory, we go over every leaf of the subvolume tree that
was changed in the current transaction and copy all its dir index keys to
the log tree.

That includes copying dir index keys created in past transactions. This is
done mostly for simplicity, as after logging the keys we log an item that
specifies the start and end ranges of the keys we logged. That item is
then used during log replay to figure out which keys need to be deleted -
every key in that range that we find in the subvolume tree and is not in
the log tree, needs to be deleted.

Now that we log only dir index keys, and not dir item keys anymore, when
we remove dentries from a directory (due to unlink and rename operations),
we can get entire leaves that we changed only for deleting old dir index
keys, or that have few dir index keys that are new - this is due to the
fact that the offset for new index keys comes from a monotonically
increasing counter.

We can avoid logging dir index keys from past transactions, and in order
to track the deletions, only log range items (BTRFS_DIR_LOG_INDEX_KEY key
type) when we find gaps between consecutive index keys. This massively
reduces the amount of logged metadata when we have deleted directory
entries, even if it's a small percentage of the total number of entries.
The reduction comes from both less items that are logged and instead of
logging many dir index items (struct btrfs_dir_item), which have a size
of 30 bytes plus a file name, we typically log just a few range items
(struct btrfs_dir_log_item), which take only 8 bytes each.

Even if no entries were deleted from a directory and only new entries
were added, we typically still get a reduction on the amount of logged
metadata, because it's very likely the first leaf that got the new
dir index entries also has several old dir index entries.

So change the logging logic to not log dir index keys created in past
transactions and log a range item for every gap it finds between each
pair of consecutive index keys, to ensure deletions are tracked and
replayed on log replay.

This patch is part of a patchset comprised of the following patches:

 1/4 btrfs: don't log unnecessary boundary keys when logging directory
 2/4 btrfs: put initial index value of a directory in a constant
 3/4 btrfs: stop copying old dir items when logging a directory
 4/4 btrfs: stop trying to log subdirectories created in past transactions

The following test was run on a branch without this patchset and on a
branch with the first three patches applied:

  $ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  DEV=/dev/nvme0n1
  MNT=/mnt/nvme0n1

  NUM_FILES=1000000
  NUM_FILE_DELETES=10000

  MKFS_OPTIONS="-O no-holes -R free-space-tree"
  MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o ssd"

  mkfs.btrfs -f $MKFS_OPTIONS $DEV
  mount $MOUNT_OPTIONS $DEV $MNT

  mkdir $MNT/testdir
  for ((i = 1; i <= $NUM_FILES; i++)); do
      echo -n > $MNT/testdir/file_$i
  done

  sync

  del_inc=$(( $NUM_FILES / $NUM_FILE_DELETES ))
  for ((i = 1; i <= $NUM_FILES; i += $del_inc)); do
      rm -f $MNT/testdir/file_$i
  done

  start=$(date +%s%N)
  xfs_io -c "fsync" $MNT/testdir
  end=$(date +%s%N)

  dur=$(( (end - start) / 1000000 ))
  echo "dir fsync took $dur ms after deleting $NUM_FILE_DELETES files"
  echo

  umount $MNT

The test was run on a non-debug kernel (Debian's default kernel config),
and the results were the following for various values of NUM_FILES and
NUM_FILE_DELETES:

** before, NUM_FILES = 1 000 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 10 000 **

dir fsync took 585 ms after deleting 10000 files

** after, NUM_FILES = 1 000 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 10 000 **

dir fsync took 34 ms after deleting 10000 files   (-94.2%)

** before, NUM_FILES = 100 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 1 000 **

dir fsync took 50 ms after deleting 1000 files

** after, NUM_FILES = 100 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 1 000 **

dir fsync took 7 ms after deleting 1000 files    (-86.0%)

** before, NUM_FILES = 10 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 100 **

dir fsync took 9 ms after deleting 100 files

** after, NUM_FILES = 10 000, NUM_FILE_DELETES = 100 **

dir fsync took 5 ms after deleting 100 files     (-44.4%)

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>