Merge patch series "netfs: Read performance improvements and "single-blob" support"

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> says:

This set of patches is primarily about two things: improving read
performance and supporting monolithic single-blob objects that have to be
read/written as such (e.g. AFS directory contents).  The implementation of
the two parts is interwoven as each makes the other possible.

READ PERFORMANCE
================

The read performance improvements are intended to speed up some loss of
performance detected in cifs and to a lesser extend in afs.  The problem is
that we queue too many work items during the collection of read results:
each individual subrequest is collected by its own work item, and then they
have to interact with each other when a series of subrequests don't exactly
align with the pattern of folios that are being read by the overall
request.

Whilst the processing of the pages covered by individual subrequests as
they complete potentially allows folios to be woken in parallel and with
minimum delay, it can shuffle wakeups for sequential reads out of order -
and that is the most common I/O pattern.

The final assessment and cleanup of an operation is then held up until the
last I/O completes - and for a synchronous sequential operation, this means
the bouncing around of work items just adds latency.

Two changes have been made to make this work:

 (1) All collection is now done in a single "work item" that works
     progressively through the subrequests as they complete (and also
     dispatches retries as necessary).

 (2) For readahead and AIO, this work item be done on a workqueue and can
     run in parallel with the ultimate consumer of the data; for
     synchronous direct or unbuffered reads, the collection is run in the
     application thread and not offloaded.

Functions such as smb2_readv_callback() then just tell netfslib that the
subrequest has terminated; netfslib does a minimal bit of processing on the
spot - stat counting and tracing mostly - and then queues/wakes up the
worker.  This simplifies the logic as the collector just walks sequentially
through the subrequests as they complete and walks through the folios, if
buffered, unlocking them as it goes.  It also keeps to a minimum the amount
of latency injected into the filesystem's low-level I/O handling

The way netfs supports filesystems using the deprecated PG_private_2 flag
is changed: folios are flagged and added to a write request as they
complete and that takes care of scheduling the writes to the cache.  The
originating read request can then just unlock the pages whatever happens.

SINGLE-BLOB OBJECT SUPPORT
==========================

Single-blob objects are files for which the content of the file must be
read from or written to the server in a single operation because reading
them in parts may yield inconsistent results.  AFS directories are an
example of this as there exists the possibility that the contents are
generated on the fly and would differ between reads or might change due to
third party interference.

Such objects will be written to and retrieved from the cache if one is
present, though we allow/may need to propose multiple subrequests to do so.
The important part is that read from/write to the *server* is monolithic.

Single blob reading is, for the moment, fully synchronous and does result
collection in the application thread and, also for the moment, the API is
supplied the buffer in the form of a folio_queue chain rather than using
the pagecache.

AFS CHANGES
===========

This series makes a number of changes to the kafs filesystem, primarily in
the area of directory handling:

 (1) AFS's FetchData RPC reply processing is made partially asynchronous
     which allows the netfs_io_request's outstanding operation counter to
     be removed as part of reducing the collection to a single work item.

 (2) Directory and symlink reading are plumbed through netfslib using the
     single-blob object API and are now cacheable with fscache.  This also
     allows the afs_read struct to be eliminated and netfs_io_subrequest to
     be used directly instead.

 (3) Directory and symlink content are now stored in a folio_queue buffer
     rather than in the pagecache.  This means we don't require the RCU
     read lock and xarray iteration to access it, and folios won't randomly
     disappear under us because the VM wants them back.

     There are some downsides to this, though: the storage folios are no
     longer known to the VM, drop_caches can't flush them, the folios are
     not migrateable.  The inode must also be marked dirty manually to get
     the data written to the cache in the background.

 (4) The vnode operation lock is changed from a mutex struct to a private
     lock implementation.  The problem is that the lock now needs to be
     dropped in a separate thread and mutexes don't permit that.

 (5) When a new directory or symlink is created, we now initialise it
     locally and mark it valid rather than downloading it (we know what
     it's likely to look like).

 (6) We now use the in-directory hashtable to reduce the number of entries
     we need to scan when doing a lookup.  The edit routines have to
     maintain the hash chains.

 (7) Cancellation (e.g. by signal) of an async call after the rxrpc_call
     has been set up is now offloaded to the worker thread as there will be
     a notification from rxrpc upon completion.  This avoids a double
     cleanup.

SUPPORTING CHANGES
==================

To support the above some other changes are also made:

 (1) A "rolling buffer" implementation is created to abstract out the two
     separate folio_queue chaining implementations I had (one for read and
     one for write).

 (2) Functions are provided to create/extend a buffer in a folio_queue
     chain and tear it down again.  This is used to handle AFS directories,
     but could also be used to create bounce buffers for content crypto and
     transport crypto.

 (3) The was_async argument is dropped from netfs_read_subreq_terminated().
     Instead we wake the read collection work item by either queuing it or
     waking up the app thread.

 (4) We don't need to use BH-excluding locks when communicating between the
     issuing thread and the collection thread as neither of them now run in
     BH context.

MISCELLANY
==========

Also included are a number of new tracepoints; a split of the netfslib
write collection code to put retrying into its own file (it gets more
complicated with content encryption).

There are also some minor fixes AFS included, including fixing the AFS
directory format struct layout, reducing some directory over-invalidation
and making afs_mkdir() translate EEXIST to ENOTEMPY (which is not available
on all systems the servers support).

Finally, there's a patch to try and detect entry into the folio unlock
function with no folio_queue structs in the buffer (which isn't allowed in
the cases that can get there).  This is a debugging patch, but should be
minimal overhead.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-1-dhowells@redhat.com: (31 commits)
  netfs: Report on NULL folioq in netfs_writeback_unlock_folios()
  afs: Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive()
  afs: Locally initialise the contents of a new symlink on creation
  afs: Use the contained hashtable to search a directory
  afs: Make afs_mkdir() locally initialise a new directory's content
  netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item
  afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation
  afs: Fix cleanup of immediately failed async calls
  afs: Eliminate afs_read
  afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached
  afs: Use netfslib for directories
  afs: Make afs_init_request() get a key if not given a file
  netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs
  netfs: Add functions to build/clean a buffer in a folio_queue
  afs: Add more tracepoints to do with tracking validity
  cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace
  cachefiles: Add some subrequest tracepoints
  netfs: Remove some extraneous directory invalidations
  afs: Fix directory format encoding struct
  afs: Fix EEXIST error returned from afs_rmdir() to be ENOTEMPTY
  ...

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-1-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 221 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
index ff0e82505a0b..69727411683e 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_issue.c
@@ -94,9 +94,10 @@ struct netfs_io_request *netfs_create_write_req(struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	struct netfs_io_request *wreq;
 	struct netfs_inode *ictx;
-	bool is_buffered = (origin == NETFS_WRITEBACK ||
-			    origin == NETFS_WRITETHROUGH ||
-			    origin == NETFS_PGPRIV2_COPY_TO_CACHE);
+	bool is_cacheable = (origin == NETFS_WRITEBACK ||
+			     origin == NETFS_WRITEBACK_SINGLE ||
+			     origin == NETFS_WRITETHROUGH ||
+			     origin == NETFS_PGPRIV2_COPY_TO_CACHE);
 
 	wreq = netfs_alloc_request(mapping, file, start, 0, origin);
 	if (IS_ERR(wreq))
@@ -105,8 +106,10 @@ struct netfs_io_request *netfs_create_write_req(struct address_space *mapping,
 	_enter("R=%x", wreq->debug_id);
 
 	ictx = netfs_inode(wreq->inode);
-	if (is_buffered && netfs_is_cache_enabled(ictx))
+	if (is_cacheable && netfs_is_cache_enabled(ictx))
 		fscache_begin_write_operation(&wreq->cache_resources, netfs_i_cookie(ictx));
+	if (rolling_buffer_init(&wreq->buffer, wreq->debug_id, ITER_SOURCE) < 0)
+		goto nomem;
 
 	wreq->cleaned_to = wreq->start;
 
@@ -129,6 +132,10 @@ struct netfs_io_request *netfs_create_write_req(struct address_space *mapping,
 	}
 
 	return wreq;
+nomem:
+	wreq->error = -ENOMEM;
+	netfs_put_request(wreq, false, netfs_rreq_trace_put_failed);
+	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -153,16 +160,15 @@ static void netfs_prepare_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 				loff_t start)
 {
 	struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq;
-	struct iov_iter *wreq_iter = &wreq->io_iter;
+	struct iov_iter *wreq_iter = &wreq->buffer.iter;
 
 	/* Make sure we don't point the iterator at a used-up folio_queue
 	 * struct being used as a placeholder to prevent the queue from
 	 * collapsing.  In such a case, extend the queue.
 	 */
 	if (iov_iter_is_folioq(wreq_iter) &&
-	    wreq_iter->folioq_slot >= folioq_nr_slots(wreq_iter->folioq)) {
-		netfs_buffer_make_space(wreq);
-	}
+	    wreq_iter->folioq_slot >= folioq_nr_slots(wreq_iter->folioq))
+		rolling_buffer_make_space(&wreq->buffer);
 
 	subreq = netfs_alloc_subrequest(wreq);
 	subreq->source		= stream->source;
@@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ static void netfs_prepare_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 	 * the list.  The collector only goes nextwards and uses the lock to
 	 * remove entries off of the front.
 	 */
-	spin_lock_bh(&wreq->lock);
+	spin_lock(&wreq->lock);
 	list_add_tail(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests);
 	if (list_is_first(&subreq->rreq_link, &stream->subrequests)) {
 		stream->front = subreq;
@@ -209,7 +215,7 @@ static void netfs_prepare_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 		}
 	}
 
-	spin_unlock_bh(&wreq->lock);
+	spin_unlock(&wreq->lock);
 
 	stream->construct = subreq;
 }
@@ -268,9 +274,9 @@ void netfs_issue_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
  * we can avoid overrunning the credits obtained (cifs) and try to parallelise
  * content-crypto preparation with network writes.
  */
-int netfs_advance_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
-			struct netfs_io_stream *stream,
-			loff_t start, size_t len, bool to_eof)
+size_t netfs_advance_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
+			   struct netfs_io_stream *stream,
+			   loff_t start, size_t len, bool to_eof)
 {
 	struct netfs_io_subrequest *subreq = stream->construct;
 	size_t part;
@@ -327,6 +333,9 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 
 	_enter("");
 
+	if (rolling_buffer_make_space(&wreq->buffer) < 0)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	/* netfs_perform_write() may shift i_size around the page or from out
 	 * of the page to beyond it, but cannot move i_size into or through the
 	 * page since we have it locked.
@@ -431,7 +440,7 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 	}
 
 	/* Attach the folio to the rolling buffer. */
-	netfs_buffer_append_folio(wreq, folio, false);
+	rolling_buffer_append(&wreq->buffer, folio, 0);
 
 	/* Move the submission point forward to allow for write-streaming data
 	 * not starting at the front of the page.  We don't do write-streaming
@@ -444,7 +453,8 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 		stream = &wreq->io_streams[s];
 		stream->submit_off = foff;
 		stream->submit_len = flen;
-		if ((stream->source == NETFS_WRITE_TO_CACHE && streamw) ||
+		if (!stream->avail ||
+		    (stream->source == NETFS_WRITE_TO_CACHE && streamw) ||
 		    (stream->source == NETFS_UPLOAD_TO_SERVER &&
 		     fgroup == NETFS_FOLIO_COPY_TO_CACHE)) {
 			stream->submit_off = UINT_MAX;
@@ -478,7 +488,7 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 
 		/* Advance the iterator(s). */
 		if (stream->submit_off > iter_off) {
-			iov_iter_advance(&wreq->io_iter, stream->submit_off - iter_off);
+			rolling_buffer_advance(&wreq->buffer, stream->submit_off - iter_off);
 			iter_off = stream->submit_off;
 		}
 
@@ -496,7 +506,7 @@ static int netfs_write_folio(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 	}
 
 	if (fsize > iter_off)
-		iov_iter_advance(&wreq->io_iter, fsize - iter_off);
+		rolling_buffer_advance(&wreq->buffer, fsize - iter_off);
 	atomic64_set(&wreq->issued_to, fpos + fsize);
 
 	if (!debug)
@@ -635,7 +645,7 @@ int netfs_advance_writethrough(struct netfs_io_request *wreq, struct writeback_c
 			       struct folio **writethrough_cache)
 {
 	_enter("R=%x ic=%zu ws=%u cp=%zu tp=%u",
-	       wreq->debug_id, wreq->iter.count, wreq->wsize, copied, to_page_end);
+	       wreq->debug_id, wreq->buffer.iter.count, wreq->wsize, copied, to_page_end);
 
 	if (!*writethrough_cache) {
 		if (folio_test_dirty(folio))
@@ -710,10 +720,10 @@ int netfs_unbuffered_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq, bool may_wait, size_t
 		part = netfs_advance_write(wreq, upload, start, len, false);
 		start += part;
 		len -= part;
-		iov_iter_advance(&wreq->io_iter, part);
+		rolling_buffer_advance(&wreq->buffer, part);
 		if (test_bit(NETFS_RREQ_PAUSE, &wreq->flags)) {
 			trace_netfs_rreq(wreq, netfs_rreq_trace_wait_pause);
-			wait_on_bit(&wreq->flags, NETFS_RREQ_PAUSE, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			wait_event(wreq->waitq, !test_bit(NETFS_RREQ_PAUSE, &wreq->flags));
 		}
 		if (test_bit(NETFS_RREQ_FAILED, &wreq->flags))
 			break;
@@ -723,3 +733,194 @@ int netfs_unbuffered_write(struct netfs_io_request *wreq, bool may_wait, size_t
 	_leave(" = %d", error);
 	return error;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Write some of a pending folio data back to the server and/or the cache.
+ */
+static int netfs_write_folio_single(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
+				    struct folio *folio)
+{
+	struct netfs_io_stream *upload = &wreq->io_streams[0];
+	struct netfs_io_stream *cache  = &wreq->io_streams[1];
+	struct netfs_io_stream *stream;
+	size_t iter_off = 0;
+	size_t fsize = folio_size(folio), flen;
+	loff_t fpos = folio_pos(folio);
+	bool to_eof = false;
+	bool no_debug = false;
+
+	_enter("");
+
+	flen = folio_size(folio);
+	if (flen > wreq->i_size - fpos) {
+		flen = wreq->i_size - fpos;
+		folio_zero_segment(folio, flen, fsize);
+		to_eof = true;
+	} else if (flen == wreq->i_size - fpos) {
+		to_eof = true;
+	}
+
+	_debug("folio %zx/%zx", flen, fsize);
+
+	if (!upload->avail && !cache->avail) {
+		trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_cancel_store);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (!upload->construct)
+		trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_store);
+	else
+		trace_netfs_folio(folio, netfs_folio_trace_store_plus);
+
+	/* Attach the folio to the rolling buffer. */
+	folio_get(folio);
+	rolling_buffer_append(&wreq->buffer, folio, NETFS_ROLLBUF_PUT_MARK);
+
+	/* Move the submission point forward to allow for write-streaming data
+	 * not starting at the front of the page.  We don't do write-streaming
+	 * with the cache as the cache requires DIO alignment.
+	 *
+	 * Also skip uploading for data that's been read and just needs copying
+	 * to the cache.
+	 */
+	for (int s = 0; s < NR_IO_STREAMS; s++) {
+		stream = &wreq->io_streams[s];
+		stream->submit_off = 0;
+		stream->submit_len = flen;
+		if (!stream->avail) {
+			stream->submit_off = UINT_MAX;
+			stream->submit_len = 0;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* Attach the folio to one or more subrequests.  For a big folio, we
+	 * could end up with thousands of subrequests if the wsize is small -
+	 * but we might need to wait during the creation of subrequests for
+	 * network resources (eg. SMB credits).
+	 */
+	for (;;) {
+		ssize_t part;
+		size_t lowest_off = ULONG_MAX;
+		int choose_s = -1;
+
+		/* Always add to the lowest-submitted stream first. */
+		for (int s = 0; s < NR_IO_STREAMS; s++) {
+			stream = &wreq->io_streams[s];
+			if (stream->submit_len > 0 &&
+			    stream->submit_off < lowest_off) {
+				lowest_off = stream->submit_off;
+				choose_s = s;
+			}
+		}
+
+		if (choose_s < 0)
+			break;
+		stream = &wreq->io_streams[choose_s];
+
+		/* Advance the iterator(s). */
+		if (stream->submit_off > iter_off) {
+			rolling_buffer_advance(&wreq->buffer, stream->submit_off - iter_off);
+			iter_off = stream->submit_off;
+		}
+
+		atomic64_set(&wreq->issued_to, fpos + stream->submit_off);
+		stream->submit_extendable_to = fsize - stream->submit_off;
+		part = netfs_advance_write(wreq, stream, fpos + stream->submit_off,
+					   stream->submit_len, to_eof);
+		stream->submit_off += part;
+		if (part > stream->submit_len)
+			stream->submit_len = 0;
+		else
+			stream->submit_len -= part;
+		if (part > 0)
+			no_debug = true;
+	}
+
+	wreq->buffer.iter.iov_offset = 0;
+	if (fsize > iter_off)
+		rolling_buffer_advance(&wreq->buffer, fsize - iter_off);
+	atomic64_set(&wreq->issued_to, fpos + fsize);
+
+	if (!no_debug)
+		kdebug("R=%x: No submit", wreq->debug_id);
+	_leave(" = 0");
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * netfs_writeback_single - Write back a monolithic payload
+ * @mapping: The mapping to write from
+ * @wbc: Hints from the VM
+ * @iter: Data to write, must be ITER_FOLIOQ.
+ *
+ * Write a monolithic, non-pagecache object back to the server and/or
+ * the cache.
+ */
+int netfs_writeback_single(struct address_space *mapping,
+			   struct writeback_control *wbc,
+			   struct iov_iter *iter)
+{
+	struct netfs_io_request *wreq;
+	struct netfs_inode *ictx = netfs_inode(mapping->host);
+	struct folio_queue *fq;
+	size_t size = iov_iter_count(iter);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!iov_iter_is_folioq(iter)))
+		return -EIO;
+
+	if (!mutex_trylock(&ictx->wb_lock)) {
+		if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) {
+			netfs_stat(&netfs_n_wb_lock_skip);
+			return 0;
+		}
+		netfs_stat(&netfs_n_wb_lock_wait);
+		mutex_lock(&ictx->wb_lock);
+	}
+
+	wreq = netfs_create_write_req(mapping, NULL, 0, NETFS_WRITEBACK_SINGLE);
+	if (IS_ERR(wreq)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(wreq);
+		goto couldnt_start;
+	}
+
+	trace_netfs_write(wreq, netfs_write_trace_writeback);
+	netfs_stat(&netfs_n_wh_writepages);
+
+	if (__test_and_set_bit(NETFS_RREQ_UPLOAD_TO_SERVER, &wreq->flags))
+		wreq->netfs_ops->begin_writeback(wreq);
+
+	for (fq = (struct folio_queue *)iter->folioq; fq; fq = fq->next) {
+		for (int slot = 0; slot < folioq_count(fq); slot++) {
+			struct folio *folio = folioq_folio(fq, slot);
+			size_t part = umin(folioq_folio_size(fq, slot), size);
+
+			_debug("wbiter %lx %llx", folio->index, atomic64_read(&wreq->issued_to));
+
+			ret = netfs_write_folio_single(wreq, folio);
+			if (ret < 0)
+				goto stop;
+			size -= part;
+			if (size <= 0)
+				goto stop;
+		}
+	}
+
+stop:
+	for (int s = 0; s < NR_IO_STREAMS; s++)
+		netfs_issue_write(wreq, &wreq->io_streams[s]);
+	smp_wmb(); /* Write lists before ALL_QUEUED. */
+	set_bit(NETFS_RREQ_ALL_QUEUED, &wreq->flags);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&ictx->wb_lock);
+
+	netfs_put_request(wreq, false, netfs_rreq_trace_put_return);
+	_leave(" = %d", ret);
+	return ret;
+
+couldnt_start:
+	mutex_unlock(&ictx->wb_lock);
+	_leave(" = %d", ret);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netfs_writeback_single);