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houseme 92c8c6db75 perf(ecstore): Linux O_DIRECT shard-write path off the commit critical section (#4411)
`create_file` writes erasure shard / multipart part data through the page
cache, so the commit-point `sync_dir_files` fdatasync in `rename_data` has to
flush the whole shard's dirty pages (profiling: create_file avg 67.52ms vs
1.51ms nosync; BitrotWriter::write p95 40.86ms), and concurrent PUTs on one
device stall each other's writeback inside the rename critical section.

Add an opt-in Linux O_DIRECT streaming writer that reuses the direct-io read
infrastructure (statx DIOALIGN probe, aligned bounce buffer, supported latch,
one-time fallback log). Incoming bytes are staged into an aligned buffer;
full aligned batches and the shutdown tail are flushed on the blocking pool
(same offloading posture as the buffered writer it replaces). The
sub-alignment tail is written buffered after clearing O_DIRECT via fcntl
(MinIO's recipe). Shard bytes reach the device during the write phase, so the
unchanged commit-point `sync_dir_files` fdatasync degrades to a cheap
metadata/device FLUSH instead of flushing ~2MiB of dirty pages.

Gated by `RUSTFS_OBJECT_DIRECT_IO_WRITE_ENABLE` (default false), Linux-only,
and durability-neutral: `sync_dir_files` still fdatasyncs every shard at the
commit point, so the strict/relaxed/none durability tiers keep their exact
guarantees. Filesystems that reject O_DIRECT (tmpfs, overlayfs, 9p) latch the
path off and fall back to buffered writes; an O_DIRECT open/write EINVAL is
never surfaced as `InvalidInput` (which `to_file_error` maps to `FileNotFound`
and would masquerade as a missing shard, triggering a spurious EC rebuild).

Unit tests cover the env gate, the alignment/staging-capacity and tail-split
math, an end-to-end `create_file` round trip across sizes crossing the
alignment and multi-batch boundaries (buffered fallback on macOS / O_DIRECT on
a block device), and the writer state machine over a plain file on Linux. Real
O_DIRECT throughput on Linux NVMe (ext4/xfs) is deferred to the azure 4-node
bench per the issue's GO/NO-GO gate; the development host is macOS and cannot
exercise O_DIRECT.

Refs: rustfs/backlog#927, rustfs/backlog#936

Co-authored-by: heihutu <heihutu@gmail.com>
2026-07-08 16:39:43 +08:00
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