btrfs: increase direct io read size limit to 256 sectors

Btrfs currently limits direct I/O reads to a single sector, which goes
back to commit c329861da406 ("Btrfs: don't allocate a separate csums
array for direct reads") from Josef.  That commit changes the direct I/O
code to ".. use the private part of the io_tree for our csums.", but ten
years later that isn't how checksums for direct reads work, instead they
use a csums allocation on a per-btrfs_dio_private basis (which have their
own performance problem for small I/O, but that will be addressed later).

There is no fundamental limit in btrfs itself to limit the I/O size
except for the size of the checksum array that scales linearly with
the number of sectors in an I/O.  Pick a somewhat arbitrary limit of
256 limits, which matches what the buffered reads typically see as
the upper limit as the limit for direct I/O as well.

This significantly improves direct read performance.  For example a fio
run doing 1 MiB aio reads with a queue depth of 1 roughly triples the
throughput:

Baseline:

READ: bw=65.3MiB/s (68.5MB/s), 65.3MiB/s-65.3MiB/s (68.5MB/s-68.5MB/s), io=19.1GiB (20.6GB), run=300013-300013msec

With this patch:

READ: bw=196MiB/s (206MB/s), 196MiB/s-196MiB/s (206MB/s-206MB/s), io=57.5GiB (61.7GB), run=300006-300006msc

Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index d535ed39c391..03771f09a9a2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -7578,8 +7578,12 @@ static int btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t start,
 	const u64 data_alloc_len = length;
 	bool unlock_extents = false;
 
+	/*
+	 * Cap the size of reads to that usually seen in buffered I/O as we need
+	 * to allocate a contiguous array for the checksums.
+	 */
 	if (!write)
-		len = min_t(u64, len, fs_info->sectorsize);
+		len = min_t(u64, len, fs_info->sectorsize * BTRFS_MAX_BIO_SECTORS);
 
 	lockstart = start;
 	lockend = start + len - 1;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
index b61508723d5d..9537d82bb7a2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
@@ -355,6 +355,13 @@ struct btrfs_fs_devices {
 				/ sizeof(struct btrfs_stripe) + 1)
 
 /*
+ * Maximum number of sectors for a single bio to limit the size of the
+ * checksum array.  This matches the number of bio_vecs per bio and thus the
+ * I/O size for buffered I/O.
+ */
+#define BTRFS_MAX_BIO_SECTORS				(256)
+
+/*
  * Additional info to pass along bio.
  *
  * Mostly for btrfs specific features like csum and mirror_num.