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Introduction +2. Motivation +3. The Design +4. Git Development Tree +5. Usage Example + + +1. Introduction + + The feature adds experimental support for tracking data temperature +information in VFS layer. Essentially, this means maintaining some key +stats(like number of reads/writes, last read/write time, frequency of +reads/writes), then distilling those numbers down to a single +"temperature" value that reflects what data is "hot," and using that +temperature to move data to SSDs. + + The long-term goal of the feature is to allow some FSs, +e.g. Btrfs to intelligently utilize SSDs in a heterogenous volume. +Incidentally, this project has been motivated by +the Project Ideas page on the Btrfs wiki. + + Of course, users are warned not to run this code outside of development +environments. These patches are EXPERIMENTAL, and as such they might eat +your data and/or memory. That said, the code should be relatively safe +when the hottrack mount option are disabled. + +2. Motivation + + The overall goal of enabling hot data relocation to SSD has been +motivated by the Project Ideas page on the Btrfs wiki at +. +It will divide into two steps. VFS provide hot data tracking function +while specific FS will provide hot data relocation function. +So as the first step of this goal, it is hoped that the patchset +for hot data tracking will eventually mature into VFS. + + This is essentially the traditional cache argument: SSD is fast and +expensive; HDD is cheap but slow. ZFS, for example, can already take +advantage of SSD caching. Btrfs should also be able to take advantage of +hybrid storage without many broad, sweeping changes to existing code. + + +3. The Design + +These include the following parts: + + * Hooks in existing vfs functions to track data access frequency + + * New radix-trees for tracking access frequency of inodes and sub-file +ranges + The relationship between super_block and radix-tree is as below: +hot_info.hot_inode_tree + Each FS instance can find hot tracking info s_hotinfo. +In this hot_info, it store a lot of hot tracking info such as hot_inode_tree, +inode and range list, etc. + + * A list for indexing data by its temperature + + * A debugfs interface for dumping data from the radix-trees + + * A background kthread for updating inode heat info + + * Mount options for enabling temperature tracking(-o hot_track, +default mean disabled) + * An ioctl to retrieve the frequency information collected for a certain +file + * Ioctls to enable/disable frequency tracking per inode. + +Let us see their relationship as below: + + * hot_info.hot_inode_tree indexes hot_inode_items, one per inode + + * hot_inode_item contains access frequency data for that inode + + * hot_inode_item holds a heat list node to index the access +frequency data for that inode + + * hot_inode_item.hot_range_tree indexes hot_range_items for that inode + + * hot_range_item contains access frequency data for that range + + * hot_range_item holds a heat list node to index the access +frequency data for that range + + * hot_info.heat_inode_map indexes per-inode heat list nodes + + * hot_info.heat_range_map indexes per-range heat list nodes + + How about some ascii art? :) Just looking at the hot inode item case +(the range item case is the same pattern, though), we have: + +heat_inode_map hot_inode_tree + | | + | V + | +-------hot_comm_item--------+ + | | frequency data | ++---+ | list_head | +| V ^ | V +| ...<--hot_comm_item-->... | | ...<--hot_comm_item-->... +| frequency data | | frequency data ++-------->list_head----------+ +--------->list_head--->..... + hot_range_tree hot_range_tree + | + heat_range_map V + | +-------hot_comm_item--------+ + | | frequency data | + +---+ | list_head | + | V ^ | V + | ...<--hot_comm_item-->... | | ...<--hot_comm_item-->... + | frequency data | | frequency data + +-------->list_head----------+ +--------->list_head--->..... + +4. Git Development Tree + + The feature is still on development and review, so if you're interested, +you can pull from the git repository at the following location: + https://github.com/wuzhy/kernel.git hot_tracking + git://github.com/wuzhy/kernel.git hot_tracking + + +5. Usage Example + +To use hot tracking, you should mount like this: + +$ mount -o hot_track /dev/sdb /mnt +[ 1505.894078] device label test devid 1 transid 29 /dev/sdb +[ 1505.952977] btrfs: disk space caching is enabled +[ 1506.069678] vfs: turning on hot data tracking + +Mount debugfs at first: + +$ mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug +$ ls -l /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/ +total 0 +drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 8 04:40 sdb +$ ls -l /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/sdb +total 0 +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 8 04:40 inode_data +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 8 04:40 range_data + +View information about hot tracking from debugfs: + +$ echo "hot tracking test" > /mnt/file +$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/sdb/inode_data +inode #279, reads 0, writes 1, avg read time 18446744073709551615, +avg write time 5251566408153596, temp 109 +$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/sdb/range_data +inode #279, range start 0 (range len 1048576) reads 0, writes 1, +avg read time 18446744073709551615, avg write time 1128690176623144209, temp 64 + +$ echo "hot data tracking test" >> /mnt/file +$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/sdb/inode_data +inode #279, reads 0, writes 2, avg read time 18446744073709551615, +avg write time 4923343766042451, temp 109 +$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/hot_track/sdb/range_data +inode #279, range start 0 (range len 1048576) reads 0, writes 2, +avg read time 18446744073709551615, avg write time 1058147040842596150, temp 64 +