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The 'writes_pending' counter is used to determine when the array is stable so that it can be marked in the superblock as "Clean". Consequently it needs to be updated frequently but only checked for zero occasionally. Recent changes to raid5 cause the count to be updated even more often - once per 4K rather than once per bio. This provided justification for making the updates more efficient. So we replace the atomic counter a percpu-refcount. This can be incremented and decremented cheaply most of the time, and can be switched to "atomic" mode when more precise counting is needed. As it is possible for multiple threads to want a precise count, we introduce a "sync_checker" counter to count the number of threads in "set_in_sync()", and only switch the refcount back to percpu mode when that is zero. We need to be careful about races between set_in_sync() setting ->in_sync to 1, and md_write_start() setting it to zero. md_write_start() holds the rcu_read_lock() while checking if the refcount is in percpu mode. If it is, then we know a switch to 'atomic' will not happen until after we call rcu_read_unlock(), in which case set_in_sync() will see the elevated count, and not set in_sync to 1. If it is not in percpu mode, we take the mddev->lock to ensure proper synchronization. It is no longer possible to quickly check if the count is zero, which we previously did to update a timer or to schedule the md_thread. So now we do these every time we decrement that counter, but make sure they are fast. mod_timer() already optimizes the case where the timeout value doesn't actually change. We leverage that further by always rounding off the jiffies to the timeout value. This may delay the marking of 'clean' slightly, but ensure we only perform atomic operation here when absolutely needed. md_wakeup_thread() current always calls wake_up(), even if THREAD_WAKEUP is already set. That too can be optimised to avoid calls to wake_up(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.