Remove the definition of the macro XFS_BUF_BFLAGS and its usage.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For improving insight into IO completion behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
On xfs exports, nfsd is incorrectly returning ENOENT instead of
ESTALE on attempts to use a filehandle of a deleted file (spotted
with pynfs test PUTFH3). The ENOENT was coming from xfs_iget.
(It's tempting to wonder whether we should just map all xfs_iget
errors to ESTALE, but I don't believe so--xfs_iget can also return
ENOMEM at least, which we wouldn't want mapped to ESTALE.)
While we're at it, the other return of ENOENT in xfs_nfs_get_inode()
also looks wrong.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the second parameter to xfs_sb_count() since all callers of
the function set them.
Also, fix the header comment regarding it being called periodically.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove various bits left over from the old kdb-only btree tracing code, but
leave the actual trace point stubs in place to ease adding new event based
btree tracing.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Replace the typeless b_fspriv2 and the ugly macros around it with a properly
typed transaction pointer. As a fallout the log buffer state debug checks
are also removed. We could have kept them using casts, but as they do
not have a real purpose we can as well just remove them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Start the periodic sync workers only after we have finished xfs_mountfs
and thus fully set up the filesystem structures. Without this we can
call into xfs_qm_sync before the quotainfo strucute is set up if the
mount takes unusually long, and probably hit other incomplete states
as well.
Also clean up the xfs_fs_fill_super error path by using consistent
label names, and removing an impossible to reach case.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Remove the unused and misnamed _XBF_RUN_QUEUES flag, rename XBF_LOG_BUFFER
to the more fitting XBF_SYNCIO, and split XBF_ORDERED into XBF_FUA and
XBF_FLUSH to allow more fine grained control over the bio flags. Also
cleanup processing of the flags in _xfs_buf_ioapply to make more sense,
and renumber the sparse flag number space to group flags by purpose.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
All other xfs_buf_get/read-like helpers return the buffer locked, make sure
xfs_buf_get_uncached isn't different for no reason. Half of the callers
already lock it directly after, and the others probably should also keep
it locked if only for consistency and beeing able to use xfs_buf_rele,
but I'll leave that for later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Rename xfs_buf_cond_lock and reverse it's return value to fit most other
trylock operations in the Kernel and XFS (with the exception of down_trylock,
after which xfs_buf_cond_lock was modelled), and replace xfs_buf_lock_val
with an xfs_buf_islocked for use in asserts, or and opencoded variant in
tracing. remove the XFS_BUF_* wrappers for all the locking helpers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Switch the shortform directory code over to use the generic
get_unaligned_beXX helpers instead of reinventing them. As a result
kill off xfs_arch.h and move the setting of XFS_NATIVE_HOST into
xfs_linux.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
The following script from Wu Fengguang shows very bad behaviour in XFS
when aggressively dirtying data during a sync on XFS, with sync times
up to almost 10 times as long as ext4.
A large part of the issue is that XFS writes data out itself two times
in the ->sync_fs method, overriding the livelock protection in the core
writeback code, and another issue is the lock-less xfs_ioend_wait call,
which doesn't prevent new ioend from being queue up while waiting for
the count to reach zero.
This patch removes the XFS-internal sync calls and relies on the VFS
to do it's work just like all other filesystems do. Note that the
i_iocount wait which is rather suboptimal is simply removed here.
We already do it in ->write_inode, which keeps the current supoptimal
behaviour. We'll eventually need to remove that as well, but that's
material for a separate commit.
------------------------------ snip ------------------------------
#!/bin/sh
umount /dev/sda7
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda7
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda7
# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda7
mount /dev/sda7 /fs
echo $((50<<20)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes
pid=
for i in `seq 10`
do
dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/zero-$i bs=1M count=1000 &
pid="$pid $!"
done
sleep 1
tic=$(date +'%s')
sync
tac=$(date +'%s')
echo
echo sync time: $((tac-tic))
egrep '(Dirty|Writeback|NFS_Unstable)' /proc/meminfo
pidof dd > /dev/null && { kill -9 $pid; echo sync NOT livelocked; }
------------------------------ snip ------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Split the guts of xfs_itruncate_finish that loop over the existing extents
and calls xfs_bunmapi on them into a new helper, xfs_itruncate_externs.
Make xfs_attr_inactive call it directly instead of xfs_itruncate_finish,
which allows to simplify the latter a lot, by only letting it deal with
the data fork. As a result xfs_itruncate_finish is renamed to
xfs_itruncate_data to make its use case more obvious.
Also remove the sync parameter from xfs_itruncate_data, which has been
unessecary since the introduction of the busy extent list in 2002, and
completely dead code since 2003 when the XFS_BMAPI_ASYNC parameter was
made a no-op.
I can't actually see why the xfs_attr_inactive needs to set the transaction
sync, but let's keep this patch simple and without changes in behaviour.
Also avoid passing a useless argument to xfs_isize_check, and make it
private to xfs_inode.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
xfs_itruncate_start is a rather length wrapper that evaluates to a call
to xfs_ioend_wait and xfs_tosspages, and only has two callers.
Instead of using the complicated checks left over from IRIX where we
can to truncate the pagecache just call xfs_tosspages
(aka truncate_inode_pages) directly as we want to get rid of all data
after i_size, and truncate_inode_pages handles incorrect alignments
and too large offsets just fine.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Get rid of the special case where we use unlogged timestamp updates for
a truncate to the current inode size, and just call xfs_setattr_nonsize
for it to treat it like a utimes calls.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Split up xfs_setattr into two functions, one for the complex truncate
handling, and one for the trivial attribute updates. Also move both
new routines to xfs_iops.c as they are fairly Linux-specific.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
The non-blockig behaviour in xfs_vm_writepage currently is conditional on
having both the WB_SYNC_NONE sync_mode and the nonblocking flag set.
The latter used to be used by both pdflush, kswapd and a few other places
in older kernels, but has been fading out starting with the introduction
of the per-bdi flusher threads.
Enable the non-blocking behaviour for all WB_SYNC_NONE calls to get back
the behaviour we want.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Now that we reject direct reclaim in addition to always using GFP_NOFS
allocation there's no chance we'll ever end up in ->writepage with
PF_FSTRANS set. Add a WARN_ON if we hit this case, and stop checking
if we'd actually need to start a transaction.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
There's no reason not to support cache flushing on external log devices.
The only thing this really requires is flushing the data device first
both in fsync and log commits. A side effect is that we also have to
remove the barrier write test during mount, which has been superflous
since the new FLUSH+FUA code anyway. Also use the chance to flush the
RT subvolume write cache before the fsync commit, which is required
for correct semantics.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
->mknod() should return negative on errors and PTR_ERR() gives
already negative value...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Tell the filesystem if we just updated timestamp (I_DIRTY_SYNC) or
anything else, so that the filesystem can track internally if it
needs to push out a transaction for fdatasync or not.
This is just the prototype change with no user for it yet. I plan
to push large XFS changes for the next merge window, and getting
this trivial infrastructure in this window would help a lot to avoid
tree interdependencies.
Also remove incorrect comments that ->dirty_inode can't block. That
has been changed a long time ago, and many implementations rely on it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: correctly decrement the extent buffer index in xfs_bmap_del_extent
xfs: check for valid indices in xfs_iext_get_ext and xfs_iext_idx_to_irec
xfs: fix up asserts in xfs_iflush_fork
xfs: do not do pointer arithmetic on extent records
xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bunmapi
xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmapi
xfs: do not use unchecked extent indices in xfs_bmap_add_extent_*
xfs: remove if_lastex
xfs: remove the unused XFS_BMAPI_RSVBLOCKS flag
xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks
xfs: add online discard support
Change each shrinker's API by consolidating the existing parameters into
shrink_control struct. This will simplify any further features added w/o
touching each file of shrinker.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix up new shrinker API]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xfs warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update gfs2]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we have reliably tracking of deleted extents in a
transaction we can easily implement "online" discard support
which calls blkdev_issue_discard once a transaction commits.
The actual discard is a two stage operation as we first have
to mark the busy extent as not available for reuse before we
can start the actual discard. Note that we don't bother
supporting discard for the non-delaylog mode.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we free a vmapped buffer, we need to ensure the vmap address
and length we free is the same as when it was allocated. In various
places in the log code we change the memory the buffer is pointing
to before issuing IO, but we never reset the buffer to point back to
it's original memory (or no memory, if that is the case for the
buffer).
As a result, when we free the buffer it points to memory that is
owned by something else and attempts to unmap and free it. Because
the range does not match any known mapped range, it can trigger
BUG_ON() traps in the vmap code, and potentially corrupt the vmap
area tracking.
Fix this by always resetting these buffers to their original state
before freeing them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When the underlying inode buffer is locked and xfs_sync_inode_attr()
is doing a non-blocking flush, xfs_iflush() can return EAGAIN. When
this happens, clear the error rather than returning it to
xfs_inode_ag_walk(), as returning EAGAIN will result in the AG walk
delaying for a short while and trying again. This can result in
background walks getting stuck on the one AG until inode buffer is
unlocked by some other means.
This behaviour was noticed when analysing event traces followed by
code inspection and verification of the fix via further traces.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The workqueue initialisation function is called twice when
initialising the XFS subsystem. Remove the second initialisation
call.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_alert_tag() can be defined using xfs_alert(), and thereby avoid
using xfs_printk() altogether. This is the only remaining use of
xfs_printk(), so changing it this way means xfs_printk() can simply
be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can
simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be
eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can simply be eliminated.can
simply be eliminated.
Also add format checking to the non-debug inline function xfs_debug.
Miscellaneous function prototype argument alignment.
(Updated to delete the definition of xfs_printk(), which is
no longer used or needed.)
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
On a 32 bit highmem PowerPC machine, the XFS inode cache was growing
without bound and exhausting low memory causing the OOM killer to be
triggered. After some effort, the problem was reproduced on a 32 bit
x86 highmem machine.
The problem is that the per-ag inode reclaim index cursor was not
getting reset to the start of the AG if the radix tree tag lookup
found no more reclaimable inodes. Hence every further reclaim
attempt started at the same index beyond where any reclaimable
inodes lay, and no further background reclaim ever occurred from the
AG.
Without background inode reclaim the VM driven cache shrinker
simply cannot keep up with cache growth, and OOM is the result.
While the change that exposed the problem was the conversion of the
inode reclaim to use work queues for background reclaim, it was not
the cause of the bug. The bug was introduced when the cursor code
was added, just waiting for some weird configuration to strike....
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE uses struct xfs_flock64, and thus requires argument
translation for 32-bit binaries on x86. Add the required
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE_32 defined and add it to the list of commands that
require xfs_flock64 translation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_fsblock_t may be a 32-bit type on if XFS_BIG_BLKNOS is not set,
make sure to cast a value of this type to an unsigned long long
before using the ll printk qualifier.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Instead of finding the per-ag and then taking and releasing the pagb_lock
for every single busy extent completed sort the list of busy extents and
only switch betweens AGs where nessecary. This becomes especially important
with the online discard support which will hit this lock more often.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
always is kept uptodate. This is done by replacing the busy list searches
with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
in case of a reuse. This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
blocks.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Every time we reallocate a busy extent, we cause a synchronous log force
to occur to ensure the freeing transaction is on disk before we continue
and use the newly allocated extent. This is extremely sub-optimal as we
have to mark every transaction with blocks that get reused as synchronous.
Instead of searching the busy extent list after deciding on the extent to
allocate, check each candidate extent during the allocation decisions as
to whether they are in the busy list. If they are in the busy list, we
trim the busy range out of the extent we have found and determine if that
trimmed range is still OK for allocation. In many cases, this check can
be incorporated into the allocation extent alignment code which already
does trimming of the found extent before determining if it is a valid
candidate for allocation.
Based on earlier patches from Dave Chinner.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Commit 957935dc ("xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings" broke the logic in
__xfs_printk(). Instead of only printing one of two possible output
strings based on whether the fs has a name or not, it outputs both.
Fix it to only output one message again.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
xfs: use proper interfaces for on-stack plugging
xfs: fix xfs_debug warnings
xfs: fix variable set but not used warnings
xfs: convert log tail checking to a warning
xfs: catch bad block numbers freeing extents.
xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync
xfs: clean up code layout in xfs_trans_ail.c
xfs: convert the xfsaild threads to a workqueue
xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work
xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue
xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue
xfs: fix extent format buffer allocation size
xfs: fix unreferenced var error in xfs_buf.c
Also, applied patch from Tony Luck that fixes ia64:
xfs_destroy_workqueues() should not be tagged with__exit
in the branch before merging.
ia64 throws away .exit sections for the built-in CONFIG case, so routines
that are used in other circumstances should not be tagged as __exit.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add proper blk_start_plug/blk_finish_plug pairs for the two places where
we issue buffer I/O, and remove the blk_flush_plug in xfs_buf_lock and
xfs_buf_iowait, given that context switches already flush the per-process
plugging lists.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For a CONFIG_XFS_DEBUG=n build gcc complains about statements with no
effect in xfs_debug:
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c: In function 'xfs_qm_scall_trunc_qfiles':
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c:291:3: warning: statement with no effect
The reason for that is that the various new xfs message functions have a
return value which is never used, and in case of the non-debug build
xfs_debug the macro evaluates to a plain 0 which produces the above
warnings. This can be fixed by turning xfs_debug into an inline function
instead of a macro, but in addition to that I've also changed all the
message helpers to return void as we never use their return values.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
GCC 4.6 now warnings about variables set but not used. Fix the trivially
fixable warnings of this sort.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we are short on memory, we want to expedite the cleaning of
dirty objects. Hence when we run short on memory, we need to kick
the AIL flushing into action to clean as many dirty objects as
quickly as possible. To implement this, sample the lsn of the log
item at the head of the AIL and use that as the push target for the
AIL flush.
Further, we keep items in the AIL that are dirty that are not
tracked any other way, so we can get objects sitting in the AIL that
don't get written back until the AIL is pushed. Hence to get the
filesystem to the idle state, we might need to push the AIL to flush
out any remaining dirty objects sitting in the AIL. This requires
the same push mechanism as the reclaim push.
This patch also renames xfs_trans_ail_tail() to xfs_ail_min_lsn() to
match the new xfs_ail_max_lsn() function introduced in this patch.
Similarly for xfs_trans_ail_push -> xfs_ail_push.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Similar to the xfssyncd, the per-filesystem xfsaild threads can be
converted to a global workqueue and run periodically by delayed
works. This makes sense for the AIL pushing because it uses
variable timeouts depending on the work that needs to be done.
By removing the xfsaild, we simplify the AIL pushing code and
remove the need to spread the code to implement the threading
and pushing across multiple files.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Background inode reclaim needs to run more frequently that the XFS
syncd work is run as 30s is too long between optimal reclaim runs.
Add a new periodic work item to the xfs syncd workqueue to run a
fast, non-blocking inode reclaim scan.
Background inode reclaim is kicked by the act of marking inodes for
reclaim. When an AG is first marked as having reclaimable inodes,
the background reclaim work is kicked. It will continue to run
periodically untill it detects that there are no more reclaimable
inodes. It will be kicked again when the first inode is queued for
reclaim.
To ensure shrinker based inode reclaim throttles to the inode
cleaning and reclaim rate but still reclaim inodes efficiently, make it kick the
background inode reclaim so that when we are low on memory we are
trying to reclaim inodes as efficiently as possible. This kick shoul
d not be necessary, but it will protect against failures to kick the
background reclaim when inodes are first dirtied.
To provide the rate throttling, make the shrinker pass do
synchronous inode reclaim so that it blocks on inodes under IO. This
means that the shrinker will reclaim inodes rather than just
skipping over them, but it does not adversely affect the rate of
reclaim because most dirty inodes are already under IO due to the
background reclaim work the shrinker kicked.
These two modifications solve one of the two OOM killer invocations
Chris Mason reported recently when running a stress testing script.
The particular workload trigger for the OOM killer invocation is
where there are more threads than CPUs all unlinking files in an
extremely memory constrained environment. Unlike other solutions,
this one does not have a performance impact on performance when
memory is not constrained or the number of concurrent threads
operating is <= to the number of CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
On of the problems with the current inode flush at ENOSPC is that we
queue a flush per ENOSPC event, regardless of how many are already
queued. Thi can result in hundreds of queued flushes, most of
which simply burn CPU scanned and do no real work. This simply slows
down allocation at ENOSPC.
We really only need one active flush at a time, and we can easily
implement that via the new xfs_syncd_wq. All we need to do is queue
a flush if one is not already active, then block waiting for the
currently active flush to complete. The result is that we only ever
have a single ENOSPC inode flush active at a time and this greatly
reduces the overhead of ENOSPC processing.
On my 2p test machine, this results in tests exercising ENOSPC
conditions running significantly faster - 042 halves execution time,
083 drops from 60s to 5s, etc - while not introducing test
regressions.
This allows us to remove the old xfssyncd threads and infrastructure
as they are no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
All of the work xfssyncd does is background functionality. There is
no need for a thread per filesystem to do this work - it can al be
managed by a global workqueue now they manage concurrency
effectively.
Introduce a new gglobal xfssyncd workqueue, and convert the periodic
work to use this new functionality. To do this, use a delayed work
construct to schedule the next running of the periodic sync work
for the filesystem. When the sync work is complete, queue a new
delayed work for the next running of the sync work.
For laptop mode, we wait on completion for the sync works, so ensure
that the sync work queuing interface can flush and wait for work to
complete to enable the work queue infrastructure to replace the
current sequence number and wakeup that is used.
Because the sync work does non-trivial amounts of work, mark the
new work queue as CPU intensive.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Chandra Seetharaman
Dave Chinner
J. Bruce Fields
Christoph Hellwig
Christoph Hellwig
Al Viro
Linus Torvalds
Ying Han
Joe Perches
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