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Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] backup performance: block_status + async


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/23] backup performance: block_status + async
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:50:29 +0100
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On 20.01.21 11:39, Max Reitz wrote:
On 19.01.21 20:22, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
19.01.2021 21:40, Max Reitz wrote:
On 16.01.21 22:46, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
Hi Max!
I applied my series onto yours 129-fixing and found, that 129 fails for backup. And setting small max-chunk and even max-workers to 1 doesn't help! (setting
speed like in v3 still helps).

And I found, that the problem is that really, the whole backup job goes during drain, because in new architecture we do just job_yield() during the whole
background block-copy.

This leads to modifying the existing patch in the series, which does job_enter() from job_user_pause: we just need call job_enter() from job_pause() to cover
not only user pauses but also drained_begin.

So, now I don't need any additional fixing of 129.

Changes in v4:
- add a lot of Max's r-b's, thanks!

03: fix over-80 line (in comment), add r-b
09: was "[PATCH v3 10/25] job: call job_enter from job_user_pause",
     now changed to finally fix 129 iotest, drop r-b

10: squash-in additional wording on max-chunk, fix error message, keep r-b 17: drop extra include, assert job_is_cancelled() instead of check, add r-b
18: adjust commit message, add r-b
23: add comments and assertion, about the fact that test doesn't support
     paths with colon inside
     fix s/disable-copy-range/use-copy-range/

Hmmm, for me, 129 sometimes fails still, because it completes too quickly...  (The error then is that 'return[0]' does not exist in query-block-jobs’s result, because the job is already gone.)

When I insert a print(result) after the query-block-jobs, I can see that the job has always progressed really far, even if its still running. (Like, generally the offset is just one MB shy of 1G.)

I suspect the problem is that block-copy just copies too much from the start (by default); i.e., it starts 64 workers with, hm, well, 1 MB of chunk size?  Shouldn’t fill the 128 MB immediately...

Anyway, limiting the number of workers (to 1) and the chunk size (to 64k) with x-perf does ensure that the backup job’s progress is limited to 1 MB or so, which looks fine to me.

I suppose we should do that, then (in 129), before patch 17?

Yes, that sounds reasonable


(PS: I can also see a MacOS failure in iotest 256.  I suspect it’s related to this series, because 256 is a backup test (with iothreads), but I’m not sure yet.  The log is here:

https://cirrus-ci.com/task/5276331753603072
)


qemu received signal 31 ?

googling for MacOS...

  31    SIGUSR2      terminate process    User defined signal 2

coroutine-sigaltstack uses SIGUSR2 to set up new coroutines.  Perhaps it’s unrelated to backup?  Guess I’ll just run the test one more time. O:)

I ran it again, got the same error. There is no error on master, or before backup uses block_copy.

I’m trying to run a test directly on the “move to block-copy” commit, but so far Cirrus doesn’t seem to want me to do another test run right now.

(Though I’m pretty sure if there is no error before the block-copy commit, then using block-copy must be the problem. The remaining patches in my block branch are just disabling copy_range, some clean-up, the simplebench patches, the locking code error reporting change, and a new iotest.)

Max




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