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When there is a lot of data cached on cache device, the bcach internal btree can take a very long to validate during the backing device and cache device registration. In my test, it may takes 55+ minutes to check all the internal btree nodes. The problem is that the registration is invoked by udev rules and the udevd has 180 seconds timeout by default. If the btree node checking time is longer than udevd timeout, the registering process will be killed by udevd with SIGKILL. If the registering process has pending sigal, creating kthread for bcache will fail and the device registration will fail. The result is, for bcache device which cached a lot of data on cache device, the bcache device node like /dev/bcache<N> won't create always due to the very long btree checking time. A solution to avoid the udevd 180 seconds timeout is to register devices in an asynchronous way. Which is, after writing cache or backing device path into /sys/fs/bcache/register_async, the kernel code will create a kworker and move all the btree node checking (for cache device) or dirty data counting (for cached device) in the kwork context. Then the kworder is scheduled on system_wq and the registration code just returned to user space udev rule task. By this asynchronous way, the udev task for bcache rule will complete in seconds, no matter how long time spent in the kworker context, it won't be killed by udevd for a timeout. After all the checking and counting are done asynchronously in the kworker, the bcache device will eventually be created successfully. This patch does the above chagne and add a register sysfs file /sys/fs/bcache/register_async. Writing the registering device path into this sysfs file will do the asynchronous registration. The register_async interface is for very rare condition and won't be used for common users. In future I plan to make the asynchronous registration as default behavior, which depends on feedback for this patch. Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
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| alloc.c | ||
| bcache.h | ||
| bset.c | ||
| bset.h | ||
| btree.c | ||
| btree.h | ||
| closure.c | ||
| closure.h | ||
| debug.c | ||
| debug.h | ||
| extents.c | ||
| extents.h | ||
| io.c | ||
| journal.c | ||
| journal.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| movinggc.c | ||
| request.c | ||
| request.h | ||
| stats.c | ||
| stats.h | ||
| super.c | ||
| sysfs.c | ||
| sysfs.h | ||
| trace.c | ||
| util.c | ||
| util.h | ||
| writeback.c | ||
| writeback.h | ||