linux/fs/jffs2/background.c
Andres Salomon efab0b5d3e [JFFS2] force the jffs2 GC daemon to behave a bit better
I've noticed some pretty poor behavior on OLPC machines after bootup, when
gdm/X are starting.  The GCD monopolizes the scheduler (which in turns
means it gets to do more nand i/o), which results in processes taking much
much longer than they should to start.

As an example, on an OLPC machine going from OFW to a usable X (via
auto-login gdm) takes 2m 30s.  The majority of this time is consumed by
the switch into graphical mode.  With this patch, we cut a full 60s off of
bootup time.  After bootup, things are much snappier as well.

Note that we have seen a CRC node error with this patch that causes the machine
to fail to boot, but we've also seen that problem without this patch.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-02-14 08:59:04 +00:00

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/*
* JFFS2 -- Journalling Flash File System, Version 2.
*
* Copyright © 2001-2007 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* Created by David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
*
* For licensing information, see the file 'LICENCE' in this directory.
*
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/jffs2.h>
#include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include "nodelist.h"
static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *);
void jffs2_garbage_collect_trigger(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
{
spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
if (c->gc_task && jffs2_thread_should_wake(c))
send_sig(SIGHUP, c->gc_task, 1);
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
}
/* This must only ever be called when no GC thread is currently running */
int jffs2_start_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
{
pid_t pid;
int ret = 0;
BUG_ON(c->gc_task);
init_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
init_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
pid = kernel_thread(jffs2_garbage_collect_thread, c, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES);
if (pid < 0) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "fork failed for JFFS2 garbage collect thread: %d\n", -pid);
complete(&c->gc_thread_exit);
ret = pid;
} else {
/* Wait for it... */
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "JFFS2: Garbage collect thread is pid %d\n", pid));
wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_start);
}
return ret;
}
void jffs2_stop_garbage_collect_thread(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
{
int wait = 0;
spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
if (c->gc_task) {
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2: Killing GC task %d\n", c->gc_task->pid));
send_sig(SIGKILL, c->gc_task, 1);
wait = 1;
}
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
if (wait)
wait_for_completion(&c->gc_thread_exit);
}
static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c)
{
struct jffs2_sb_info *c = _c;
daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
allow_signal(SIGKILL);
allow_signal(SIGSTOP);
allow_signal(SIGCONT);
c->gc_task = current;
complete(&c->gc_thread_start);
set_user_nice(current, 10);
set_freezable();
for (;;) {
allow_signal(SIGHUP);
again:
spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) {
set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n"));
schedule();
} else
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
/* Problem - immediately after bootup, the GCD spends a lot
* of time in places like jffs2_kill_fragtree(); so much so
* that userspace processes (like gdm and X) are starved
* despite plenty of cond_resched()s and renicing. Yield()
* doesn't help, either (presumably because userspace and GCD
* are generally competing for a higher latency resource -
* disk).
* This forces the GCD to slow the hell down. Pulling an
* inode in with read_inode() is much preferable to having
* the GC thread get there first. */
schedule_timeout_interruptible(msecs_to_jiffies(50));
/* Put_super will send a SIGKILL and then wait on the sem.
*/
while (signal_pending(current) || freezing(current)) {
siginfo_t info;
unsigned long signr;
if (try_to_freeze())
goto again;
signr = dequeue_signal_lock(current, &current->blocked, &info);
switch(signr) {
case SIGSTOP:
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGSTOP received.\n"));
set_current_state(TASK_STOPPED);
schedule();
break;
case SIGKILL:
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGKILL received.\n"));
goto die;
case SIGHUP:
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): SIGHUP received.\n"));
break;
default:
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): signal %ld received\n", signr));
}
}
/* We don't want SIGHUP to interrupt us. STOP and KILL are OK though. */
disallow_signal(SIGHUP);
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(): pass\n"));
if (jffs2_garbage_collect_pass(c) == -ENOSPC) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "No space for garbage collection. Aborting GC thread\n");
goto die;
}
}
die:
spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
c->gc_task = NULL;
spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock);
complete_and_exit(&c->gc_thread_exit, 0);
}