* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
split invalidate_inodes()
fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
fsnotify: use dget_parent
smbfs: use dget_parent
exportfs: use dget_parent
fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
fs: clean up dentry lru modification
fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
fs: simplify __d_free
fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
new helper: ihold()
...
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efe
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.
We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.
Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Split up inode_add_to_list/__inode_add_to_list. Locking for the two
lists will be split soon so these helpers really don't buy us much
anymore.
The __ prefixes for the sb list helpers will go away soon, but until
inode_lock is gone we'll need them to distinguish between the locked
and unlocked variants.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
__block_write_begin and block_prepare_write are identical except for slightly
different calling conventions. Convert all callers to the __block_write_begin
calling conventions and drop block_prepare_write.
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: (36 commits)
xfs: semaphore cleanup
xfs: Extend project quotas to support 32bit project ids
xfs: remove xfs_buf wrappers
xfs: remove xfs_cred.h
xfs: remove xfs_globals.h
xfs: remove xfs_version.h
xfs: remove xfs_refcache.h
xfs: fix the xfs_trans_committed
xfs: remove unused t_callback field in struct xfs_trans
xfs: fix bogus m_maxagi check in xfs_iget
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch for per-cpu counters
xfs: do not use xfs_mod_incore_sb for per-cpu counters
xfs: remove XFS_MOUNT_NO_PERCPU_SB
xfs: pack xfs_buf structure more tightly
xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree
xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AG
xfs: batch inode reclaim lookup
xfs: implement batched inode lookups for AG walking
xfs: split out inode walk inode grabbing
xfs: split inode AG walking into separate code for reclaim
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: remove in_workqueue_context()
workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous
memory_hotplug: drop spurious calls to flush_scheduled_work()
shpchp: update workqueue usage
pciehp: update workqueue usage
isdn/eicon: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from diva_os_remove_soft_isr()
workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag
workqueue: fix HIGHPRI handling in keep_working()
workqueue: add queue_work and activate_work trace points
workqueue: prepare for more tracepoints
workqueue: implement flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
workqueue: factor out start_flush_work()
workqueue: cleanup flush/cancel functions
workqueue: implement alloc_ordered_workqueue()
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/main.c as per Tejun
Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead.
(Ported to current XFS code by <aelder@sgi.com>.)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This patch adds support for 32bit project quota identifiers.
On disk format is backward compatible with 16bit projid numbers. projid
on disk is now kept in two 16bit values - di_projid_lo (which holds the
same position as old 16bit projid value) and new di_projid_hi (takes
existing padding) and converts from/to 32bit value on the fly.
xfs_admin (for existing fs), mkfs.xfs (for new fs) needs to be used
to enable PROJID32BIT support.
Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Stop having two different names for many buffer functions and use
the more descriptive xfs_buf_* names directly.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
We're not actually passing around credentials inside XFS for a while
now, so remove all xfs_cred.h with it's cred_t typedef and all
instances of it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This header only provides one extern that isn't actually declared
anywhere, and shadowed by a macro.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
It used to have a place when it contained an automatically generated
CVS version, but these days it's entirely superflous.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Use the correct prototype for xfs_trans_committed instead of casting it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
These days inode64 should only control which AGs we allocate new
inodes from, while we still try to support reading all existing
inodes. To make this actually work the check ontop of xfs_iget
needs to be relaxed to allow inodes in all allocation groups instead
of just those that we allow allocating inodes from. Note that we
can't simply remove the check - it prevents us from accessing
invalid data when fed invalid inode numbers from NFS or bulkstat.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Update the per-cpu counters manually in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb
and remove support for per-cpu counters from xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch
to simplify it. And added benefit is that we don't have to take
m_sb_lock for transactions that only modify per-cpu counters.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Export xfs_icsb_modify_counters and always use it for modifying
the per-cpu counters. Remove support for per-cpu counters from
xfs_mod_incore_sb to simplify it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Fail the mount if we can't allocate memory for the per-CPU counters.
This is consistent with how we handle everything else in the mount
path and makes the superblock counter modification a lot simpler.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
pahole reports the struct xfs_buf has quite a few holes in it, so
packing the structure better will reduce the size of it by 16 bytes.
Also, move all the fields used in cache lookups into the first
cacheline.
Before on x86_64:
/* size: 320, cachelines: 5 */
/* sum members: 298, holes: 6, sum holes: 22 */
After on x86_64:
/* size: 304, cachelines: 5 */
/* padding: 6 */
/* last cacheline: 48 bytes */
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The buffer cache hash is showing typical hash scalability problems.
In large scale testing the number of cached items growing far larger
than the hash can efficiently handle. Hence we need to move to a
self-scaling cache indexing mechanism.
I have selected rbtrees for indexing becuse they can have O(log n)
search scalability, and insert and remove cost is not excessive,
even on large trees. Hence we should be able to cache large numbers
of buffers without incurring the excessive cache miss search
penalties that the hash is imposing on us.
To ensure we still have parallel access to the cache, we need
multiple trees. Rather than hashing the buffers by disk address to
select a tree, it seems more sensible to separate trees by typical
access patterns. Most operations use buffers from within a single AG
at a time, so rather than searching lots of different lists,
separate the buffer indexes out into per-AG rbtrees. This means that
searches during metadata operation have a much higher chance of
hitting cache resident nodes, and that updates of the tree are less
likely to disturb trees being accessed on other CPUs doing
independent operations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Memory reclaim via shrinkers has a terrible habit of having N+M
concurrent shrinker executions (N = num CPUs, M = num kswapds) all
trying to shrink the same cache. When the cache they are all working
on is protected by a single spinlock, massive contention an
slowdowns occur.
Wrap the per-ag inode caches with a reclaim mutex to serialise
reclaim access to the AG. This will block concurrent reclaim in each
AG but still allow reclaim to scan multiple AGs concurrently. Allow
shrinkers to move on to the next AG if it can't get the lock, and if
we can't get any AG, then start blocking on locks.
To prevent reclaimers from continually scanning the same inodes in
each AG, add a cursor that tracks where the last reclaim got up to
and start from that point on the next reclaim. This should avoid
only ever scanning a small number of inodes at the satart of each AG
and not making progress. If we have a non-shrinker based reclaim
pass, ignore the cursor and reset it to zero once we are done.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Batch and optimise the per-ag inode lookup for reclaim to minimise
scanning overhead. This involves gang lookups on the radix trees to
get multiple inodes during each tree walk, and tighter validation of
what inodes can be reclaimed without blocking befor we take any
locks.
This is based on ideas suggested in a proof-of-concept patch
posted by Nick Piggin.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
With the reclaim code separated from the generic walking code, it is
simple to implement batched lookups for the generic walk code.
Separate out the inode validation from the execute operations and
modify the tree lookups to get a batch of inodes at a time.
Reclaim operations will be optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When doing read side inode cache walks, the code to validate and
grab an inode is common to all callers. Split it out of the execute
callbacks in preparation for batching lookups. Similarly, split out
the inode reference dropping from the execute callbacks into the
main lookup look to be symmetric with the grab.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The reclaim walk requires different locking and has a slightly
different walk algorithm, so separate it out so that it can be
optimised separately.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
For RT and external log devices, we never use hashed buffers on them
now. Remove the buftarg hash tables that are set up for them.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we are checking we can access the last block of each device, we
do not need to use cached buffers as they will be tossed away
immediately. Use uncached buffers for size checks so that all IO
prior to full in-memory structure initialisation does not use the
buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Filesystem level managed buffers are buffers that have their
lifecycle controlled by the filesystem layer, not the buffer cache.
We currently cache these buffers, which makes cleanup and cache
walking somewhat troublesome. Convert the fs managed buffers to
uncached buffers obtained by via xfs_buf_get_uncached(), and remove
the XBF_FS_MANAGED special cases from the buffer cache.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Each buffer contains both a buftarg pointer and a mount pointer. If
we add a mount pointer into the buftarg, we can avoid needing the
b_mount field in every buffer and grab it from the buftarg when
needed instead. This shrinks the xfs_buf by 8 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To avoid the need to use cached buffers for single-shot or buffers
cached at the filesystem level, introduce a new buffer read
primitive that bypasses the cache an reads directly from disk.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is
uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact
that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the
upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent
with this disctinction.
While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe
against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing
a flags parameter to be passed.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles
to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order.
The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time
in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list
to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush.
We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in
the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback
without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the
log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending
disk address offset order so will be very efficient.
Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit
or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the
inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or
unlogged metadata changes.
However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this -
there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the
timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a
new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes,
and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When we start taking a reference to the per-ag for every cached
buffer in the system, kernel lockstat profiling on an 8-way create
workload shows the mp->m_perag_lock has higher acquisition rates
than the inode lock and has significantly more contention. That is,
it becomes the highest contended lock in the system.
The perag lookup is trivial to convert to lock-less RCU lookups
because perag structures never go away. Hence the only thing we need
to protect against is tree structure changes during a grow. This can
be done simply by replacing the locking in xfs_perag_get() with RCU
read locking. This removes the mp->m_perag_lock completely from this
path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When we start taking references per cached buffer to the the perag
it is cached on, it will blow the current debug maximum reference
count assert out of the water. The assert has never caught a bug,
and we have tracing to track changes if there ever is a problem,
so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
When commiting a transaction, we do a lock CIL state lock round trip
on every single log vector we insert into the CIL. This is resulting
in the lock being as hot as the inode and dcache locks on 8-way
create workloads. Rework the insertion loops to bring the number
of lock round trips to one per transaction for log vectors, and one
more do the busy extents.
Also change the allocation of the log vector buffer not to zero it
as we copy over the entire allocated buffer anyway.
This patch also includes a structural cleanup to the CIL item
insertion provided by Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Ionut Gabriel Popescu <poyo_vl@yahoo.com> submitted a simple change
to eliminate some "may be used uninitialized" warnings when building
XFS. The reported condition seems to be something that GCC did not
used to recognize or report. The warnings were produced by:
gcc version 4.5.0 20100604
[gcc-4_5-branch revision 160292] (SUSE Linux)
Signed-off-by: Ionut Gabriel Popescu <poyo_vl@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
The implementation os ->kill_root only differ by either simply
zeroing out the now unused buffer in the btree cursor in the inode
allocation btree or using xfs_btree_setbuf in the allocation btree.
Initially both of them used xfs_btree_setbuf, but the use in the
ialloc btree was removed early on because it interacted badly with
xfs_trans_binval.
In addition to zeroing out the buffer in the cursor xfs_btree_setbuf
updates the bc_ra array in the btree cursor, and calls
xfs_trans_brelse on the buffer previous occupying the slot.
The bc_ra update should be done for the alloc btree updated too,
although the lack of it does not cause serious problems. The
xfs_trans_brelse call on the other hand is effectively a no-op in
the end - it keeps decrementing the bli_recur refcount until it hits
zero, and then just skips out because the buffer will always be
dirty at this point. So removing it for the allocation btree is
just fine.
So unify the code and move it to xfs_btree.c. While we're at it
also replace the call to xfs_btree_setbuf with a NULL bp argument in
xfs_btree_del_cursor with a direct call to xfs_trans_brelse given
that the cursor is beeing freed just after this and the state
updates are superflous. After this xfs_btree_setbuf is only used
with a non-NULL bp argument and can thus be simplified.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
In xfs_qm_dqflush we know that q_blkno must be initialized already from a
previous xfs_qm_dqread. So instead of calling xfs_qm_dqtobp we can
simply read the quota buffer directly. This also saves us from a duplicate
xfs_qm_dqcheck call check and allows xfs_qm_dqtobp to be simplified now
that it is always called for a newly initialized inode. In addition to
that properly unwind all locks in xfs_qm_dqflush when xfs_qm_dqcheck
fails.
This mirrors a similar cleanup in the inode lookup done earlier.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
There is no need to have the users and group/project quota locked at the
same time. Get rid of xfs_qm_dqget_noattach and just do a xfs_qm_dqget
inside xfs_qm_quotacheck_dqadjust for the quota we are operating on
right now. The new version of xfs_qm_quotacheck_dqadjust holds the
inode lock over it's operations, which is not a problem as it simply
increments counters and there is no concern about log contention
during mount time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
XFS_IOC_ZERO_RANGE is the equivalent of an atomic XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP/
XFS_IOC_RESVSP call pair. It enabled ranges of written data to be
turned into zeroes without requiring IO or having to free and
reallocate the extents in the range given as would occur if we had
to punch and then preallocate them separately. This enables
applications to zero parts of files very quickly without changing
the layout of the files in any way.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
While XFS passes ranges to operate on from the core code, the
functions being called ignore the either the entire range or the end
of the range. This is historical because when the function were
written linux didn't have the necessary range operations. Update the
functions to use the correct operations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark
WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.
This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead
of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward
progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim
workqueues can be made highpri.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When marking an inode reclaimable, a per-AG counter is increased, the
inode is tagged reclaimable in its per-AG tree, and, when this is the
first reclaimable inode in the AG, the AG entry in the per-mount tree
is also tagged.
When an inode is finally reclaimed, however, it is only deleted from
the per-AG tree. Neither the counter is decreased, nor is the parent
tree's AG entry untagged properly.
Since the tags in the per-mount tree are not cleared, the inode
shrinker iterates over all AGs that have had reclaimable inodes at one
point in time.
The counters on the other hand signal an increasing amount of slab
objects to reclaim. Since "70e60ce xfs: convert inode shrinker to
per-filesystem context" this is not a real issue anymore because the
shrinker bails out after one iteration.
But the problem was observable on a machine running v2.6.34, where the
reclaimable work increased and each process going into direct reclaim
eventually got stuck on the xfs inode shrinking path, trying to scan
several million objects.
Fix this by properly unwinding the reclaimable-state tracking of an
inode when it is reclaimed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
I have been seeing occasional pauses in transaction throughput up to
30s long under heavy parallel workloads. The only notable thing was
that the xfsaild was trying to be active during the pauses, but
making no progress. It was running exactly 20 times a second (on the
50ms no-progress backoff), and the number of pushbuf events was
constant across this time as well. IOWs, the xfsaild appeared to be
stuck on buffers that it could not push out.
Further investigation indicated that it was trying to push out inode
buffers that were pinned and/or locked. The xfsbufd was also getting
woken at the same frequency (by the xfsaild, no doubt) to push out
delayed write buffers. The xfsbufd was not making any progress
because all the buffers in the delwri queue were pinned. This scan-
and-make-no-progress dance went one in the trace for some seconds,
before the xfssyncd came along an issued a log force, and then
things started going again.
However, I noticed something strange about the log force - there
were way too many IO's issued. 516 log buffers were written, to be
exact. That added up to 129MB of log IO, which got me very
interested because it's almost exactly 25% of the size of the log.
He delayed logging code is suppose to aggregate the minimum of 25%
of the log or 8MB worth of changes before flushing. That's what
really puzzled me - why did a log force write 129MB instead of only
8MB?
Essentially what has happened is that no CIL pushes had occurred
since the previous tail push which cleared out 25% of the log space.
That caused all the new transactions to block because there wasn't
log space for them, but they kick the xfsaild to push the tail.
However, the xfsaild was not making progress because there were
buffers it could not lock and flush, and the xfsbufd could not flush
them because they were pinned. As a result, both the xfsaild and the
xfsbufd could not move the tail of the log forward without the CIL
first committing.
The cause of the problem was that the background CIL push, which
should happen when 8MB of aggregated changes have been committed, is
being held off by the concurrent transaction commit load. The
background push does a down_write_trylock() which will fail if there
is a concurrent transaction commit holding the push lock in read
mode. With 8 CPUs all doing transactions as fast as they can, there
was enough concurrent transaction commits to hold off the background
push until tail-pushing could no longer free log space, and the halt
would occur.
It should be noted that there is no reason why it would halt at 25%
of log space used by a single CIL checkpoint. This bug could
definitely violate the "no transaction should be larger than half
the log" requirement and hence result in corruption if the system
crashed under heavy load. This sort of bug is exactly the reason why
delayed logging was tagged as experimental....
The fix is to start blocking background pushes once the threshold
has been exceeded. Rework the threshold calculations to keep the
amount of log space a CIL checkpoint can use to below that of the
AIL push threshold to avoid the problem completely.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
caller. To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
state machine ahead. So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout. For
blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
The workqueue implementation in 2.6.36-rcX has changed, resulting
in the workqueues no longer having dedicated threads for work
processing. This has caused severe livelocks under heavy parallel
create workloads because the log IO completions have been getting
held up behind metadata IO completions. Hence log commits would
stall, memory allocation would stall because pages could not be
cleaned, and lock contention on the AIL during inode IO completion
processing was being seen to slow everything down even further.
By making the log Io completion workqueue a high priority workqueue,
they are queued ahead of all data/metadata IO completions and
processed before the data/metadata completions. Hence the log never
gets stalled, and operations needed to clean memory can continue as
quickly as possible. This avoids the livelock conditions and allos
the system to keep running under heavy load as per normal.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
