xfs: initialise attr fork on inode create

When we allocate a new inode, we often need to add an attribute to
the inode as part of the create. This can happen as a result of
needing to add default ACLs or security labels before the inode is
made visible to userspace.

This is highly inefficient right now. We do the create transaction
to allocate the inode, then we do an "add attr fork" transaction to
modify the just created empty inode to set the inode fork offset to
allow attributes to be stored, then we go and do the attribute
creation.

This means 3 transactions instead of 1 to allocate an inode, and
this greatly increases the load on the CIL commit code, resulting in
excessive contention on the CIL spin locks and performance
degradation:

 18.99%  [kernel]                [k] __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
  3.57%  [kernel]                [k] do_raw_spin_lock
  2.51%  [kernel]                [k] __raw_callee_save___pv_queued_spin_unlock
  2.48%  [kernel]                [k] memcpy
  2.34%  [kernel]                [k] xfs_log_commit_cil

The typical profile resulting from running fsmark on a selinux enabled
filesytem is adds this overhead to the create path:

  - 15.30% xfs_init_security
     - 15.23% security_inode_init_security
	- 13.05% xfs_initxattrs
	   - 12.94% xfs_attr_set
	      - 6.75% xfs_bmap_add_attrfork
		 - 5.51% xfs_trans_commit
		    - 5.48% __xfs_trans_commit
		       - 5.35% xfs_log_commit_cil
			  - 3.86% _raw_spin_lock
			     - do_raw_spin_lock
				  __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
		 - 0.70% xfs_trans_alloc
		      0.52% xfs_trans_reserve
	      - 5.41% xfs_attr_set_args
		 - 5.39% xfs_attr_set_shortform.constprop.0
		    - 4.46% xfs_trans_commit
		       - 4.46% __xfs_trans_commit
			  - 4.33% xfs_log_commit_cil
			     - 2.74% _raw_spin_lock
				- do_raw_spin_lock
				     __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
			       0.60% xfs_inode_item_format
		      0.90% xfs_attr_try_sf_addname
	- 1.99% selinux_inode_init_security
	   - 1.02% security_sid_to_context_force
	      - 1.00% security_sid_to_context_core
		 - 0.92% sidtab_entry_to_string
		    - 0.90% sidtab_sid2str_get
			 0.59% sidtab_sid2str_put.part.0
	   - 0.82% selinux_determine_inode_label
	      - 0.77% security_transition_sid
		   0.70% security_compute_sid.part.0

And fsmark creation rate performance drops by ~25%. The key point to
note here is that half the additional overhead comes from adding the
attribute fork to the newly created inode. That's crazy, considering
we can do this same thing at inode create time with a couple of
lines of code and no extra overhead.

So, if we know we are going to add an attribute immediately after
creating the inode, let's just initialise the attribute fork inside
the create transaction and chop that whole chunk of code out of
the create fast path. This completely removes the performance
drop caused by enabling SELinux, and the profile looks like:

     - 8.99% xfs_init_security
         - 9.00% security_inode_init_security
            - 6.43% xfs_initxattrs
               - 6.37% xfs_attr_set
                  - 5.45% xfs_attr_set_args
                     - 5.42% xfs_attr_set_shortform.constprop.0
                        - 4.51% xfs_trans_commit
                           - 4.54% __xfs_trans_commit
                              - 4.59% xfs_log_commit_cil
                                 - 2.67% _raw_spin_lock
                                    - 3.28% do_raw_spin_lock
                                         3.08% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
                                   0.66% xfs_inode_item_format
                        - 0.90% xfs_attr_try_sf_addname
                  - 0.60% xfs_trans_alloc
            - 2.35% selinux_inode_init_security
               - 1.25% security_sid_to_context_force
                  - 1.21% security_sid_to_context_core
                     - 1.19% sidtab_entry_to_string
                        - 1.20% sidtab_sid2str_get
                           - 0.86% sidtab_sid2str_put.part.0
                              - 0.62% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
                                 - 0.77% do_raw_spin_lock
                                      __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
               - 0.84% selinux_determine_inode_label
                  - 0.83% security_transition_sid
                       0.86% security_compute_sid.part.0

Which indicates the XFS overhead of creating the selinux xattr has
been halved. This doesn't fix the CIL lock contention problem, just
means it's not a limiting factor for this workload. Lock contention
in the security subsystems is going to be an issue soon, though...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
[djwong: fix compilation error when CONFIG_SECURITY=n]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index c2c26f8f4a81..13f4cd2e1f4f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ int		xfs_lookup(struct xfs_inode *dp, struct xfs_name *name,
 			   struct xfs_inode **ipp, struct xfs_name *ci_name);
 int		xfs_create(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 			   struct xfs_inode *dp, struct xfs_name *name,
-			   umode_t mode, dev_t rdev, struct xfs_inode **ipp);
+			   umode_t mode, dev_t rdev, bool need_xattr,
+			   struct xfs_inode **ipp);
 int		xfs_create_tmpfile(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 			   struct xfs_inode *dp, umode_t mode,
 			   struct xfs_inode **ipp);
@@ -421,7 +422,8 @@ xfs_extlen_t	xfs_get_cowextsz_hint(struct xfs_inode *ip);
 int		xfs_dir_ialloc(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
 			       struct xfs_trans **tpp, struct xfs_inode *dp,
 			       umode_t mode, xfs_nlink_t nlink, dev_t dev,
-			       prid_t prid, struct xfs_inode **ipp);
+			       prid_t prid, bool need_xattr,
+			       struct xfs_inode **ipp);
 
 static inline int
 xfs_itruncate_extents(