tree f5247abca044ef89ce7fe5a2a887e5edfb4cd68f
parent b32d45824aa7e07a0c3257a16e3a2a691b11b39a
author Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com> 1658482703 +0000
committer Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> 1659635440 -0400

dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature

Using tasklets for disk verification can reduce IO latency. When there
are accelerated hash instructions it is often better to compute the
hash immediately using a tasklet rather than deferring verification to
a work-queue. This reduces time spent waiting to schedule work-queue
jobs, but requires spending slightly more time in interrupt context.

If the dm-bufio cache does not have the required hashes we fallback to
the work-queue implementation. FEC is only possible using work-queue
because code to support the FEC feature may sleep.

The following shows a speed comparison of random reads on a dm-verity
device. The dm-verity device uses a 1G ramdisk for data and a 1G
ramdisk for hashes. One test was run using tasklets and one test was
run using the existing work-queue solution. Both tests were run when
the dm-bufio cache was hot. The tasklet implementation performs
significantly better since there is no time spent waiting for
work-queue jobs to be scheduled.

   READ: bw=181MiB/s (190MB/s), 181MiB/s-181MiB/s (190MB/s-190MB/s),
   io=512MiB (537MB), run=2827-2827msec
   READ: bw=23.6MiB/s (24.8MB/s), 23.6MiB/s-23.6MiB/s (24.8MB/s-24.8MB/s),
   io=512MiB (537MB), run=21688-21688msec

Signed-off-by: Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>