[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox{, -backup} v3 0/9] parallelize chunk reads in verification

Nicolas Frey n.frey at proxmox.com
Mon Nov 10 09:44:08 CET 2025


This patch series aims to expand on Dominik's series [0] written for
pbs 3, parallelizing chunk reads in `VerifyWorker` using a seperate
thread pool from the verification.

The number of threads was previously hard-coded, but is now
configurable via the API and GUI with new properties called
`{read,verify}-threads`, similarly to tape backups.

The number of threads should also be configurable through tuning
options or datastore config (as discussed by Chris & Thomas on list),
which can be added in a follow up patch series.

In my local tests I measured the following speed difference:
verified a single snapshot with ~32 GiB (4x the RAM size) with 4
cores (just changing the read threads)

1 thread:    ~440MiB/s
2 threads:   ~780MiB/s
4 threads:   ~1140MiB/s

[0] https://lore.proxmox.com/pbs-devel/20250707132706.2854973-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com/#t

Changes since v2:
* split move to parallel handler into 2 seperate commits
* add constructor to `IndexVerifyState` and clean up nits

Changes since v1, thanks to Chris:
* define dedicated schema for {worker,read,verify}-threads
* rebase proxmox-backup
* introduce new state struct `IndexVerifyState` to reduce the amount
  of Arc clones and overall better bundling
* adjust update endpoint and UI to the new properties

proxmox:

Nicolas Frey (3):
  pbs-api-types: add schema for {worker,read,verify}-threads
  pbs-api-types: jobs: add {read,verify}-threads to
    VerificationJobConfig
  pbs-api-types: use worker-threads schema for TapeBackupJobSetup

 pbs-api-types/src/datastore.rs | 14 ++++++++++++++
 pbs-api-types/src/jobs.rs      | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


proxmox-backup:

Nicolas Frey (6):
  api: verify: move chunk loading into parallel handler
  api: verify: bundle parameters into new struct
  api: verify: determine the number of threads to use with
    {read,verify}-threads
  api: verify: correct typo in comment
  api: verify: add {read,verify}-threads to update endpoint
  ui: verify: add option to set number of threads for job

 src/api2/admin/datastore.rs    |  18 +++-
 src/api2/backup/environment.rs |   2 +-
 src/api2/config/verify.rs      |  16 ++++
 src/backup/verify.rs           | 164 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 src/server/verify_job.rs       |   7 +-
 www/window/VerifyAll.js        |  18 ++++
 www/window/VerifyJobEdit.js    |  24 +++++
 7 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)


Summary over all repositories:
  9 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)

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