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authorTimofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>2017-09-28 17:33:41 +0300
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2017-11-01 20:45:36 +0100
commit858177d38d4681dad6efc015b99e4c786a34aca5 (patch)
tree9867f207eadb3114bae7e39d4140604d0787e4ae /fs/btrfs/compression.c
parenta288e92cacdc4729ad8f83d018fb0f3f5ded6c37 (diff)
downloadlinux-858177d38d4681dad6efc015b99e4c786a34aca5.tar.bz2
Btrfs: heuristic: add byte core set calculation
Calculate byte core set for data sample: - sort buckets' numbers in decreasing order - count how many values cover 90% of the sample If the core set size is low (<=25%), data are easily compressible. If the core set size is high (>=80%), data are not compressible. Signed-off-by: Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> [ update comments ] Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs/compression.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/compression.c65
1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
index e949f078a81b..c551d8a979f4 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+#include <linux/sort.h>
#include "ctree.h"
#include "disk-io.h"
#include "transaction.h"
@@ -1222,6 +1223,59 @@ int btrfs_decompress_buf2page(const char *buf, unsigned long buf_start,
return 1;
}
+/* Compare buckets by size, ascending */
+static int bucket_comp_rev(const void *lv, const void *rv)
+{
+ const struct bucket_item *l = (const struct bucket_item *)lv;
+ const struct bucket_item *r = (const struct bucket_item *)rv;
+
+ return r->count - l->count;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Size of the core byte set - how many bytes cover 90% of the sample
+ *
+ * There are several types of structured binary data that use nearly all byte
+ * values. The distribution can be uniform and counts in all buckets will be
+ * nearly the same (eg. encrypted data). Unlikely to be compressible.
+ *
+ * Other possibility is normal (Gaussian) distribution, where the data could
+ * be potentially compressible, but we have to take a few more steps to decide
+ * how much.
+ *
+ * @BYTE_CORE_SET_LOW - main part of byte values repeated frequently,
+ * compression algo can easy fix that
+ * @BYTE_CORE_SET_HIGH - data have uniform distribution and with high
+ * probability is not compressible
+ */
+#define BYTE_CORE_SET_LOW (64)
+#define BYTE_CORE_SET_HIGH (200)
+
+static int byte_core_set_size(struct heuristic_ws *ws)
+{
+ u32 i;
+ u32 coreset_sum = 0;
+ const u32 core_set_threshold = ws->sample_size * 90 / 100;
+ struct bucket_item *bucket = ws->bucket;
+
+ /* Sort in reverse order */
+ sort(bucket, BUCKET_SIZE, sizeof(*bucket), &bucket_comp_rev, NULL);
+
+ for (i = 0; i < BYTE_CORE_SET_LOW; i++)
+ coreset_sum += bucket[i].count;
+
+ if (coreset_sum > core_set_threshold)
+ return i;
+
+ for (; i < BYTE_CORE_SET_HIGH && bucket[i].count > 0; i++) {
+ coreset_sum += bucket[i].count;
+ if (coreset_sum > core_set_threshold)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return i;
+}
+
/*
* Count byte values in buckets.
* This heuristic can detect textual data (configs, xml, json, html, etc).
@@ -1366,6 +1420,17 @@ int btrfs_compress_heuristic(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end)
goto out;
}
+ i = byte_core_set_size(ws);
+ if (i <= BYTE_CORE_SET_LOW) {
+ ret = 3;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ if (i >= BYTE_CORE_SET_HIGH) {
+ ret = 0;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
out:
__free_workspace(0, ws_list, true);
return ret;