From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/28] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:05:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105170501.GB28493@bfoster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191031234618.15403-18-david@fromorbit.com>
On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:46:07AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> Provide an interface to push the AIL to a target LSN and wait for
> the tail of the log to move past that LSN. This is used to wait for
> all items older than a specific LSN to either be cleaned (written
> back) or relogged to a higher LSN in the AIL. The primary use for
> this is to allow IO free inode reclaim throttling.
>
> Factor the common AIL deletion code that does all the wakeups into a
> helper so we only have one copy of this somewhat tricky code to
> interface with all the wakeups necessary when the LSN of the log
> tail changes.
>
The above paragraph doesn't seem applicable to this patch. With that
fixed:
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> xfs_ail_push_sync() is temporary infrastructure to facilitate
> non-blocking, IO-less inode reclaim throttling that allows further
> structural changes to be made. Once those structural changes are
> made, the need for this function goes away and it is removed. In
> essence, it is only provided to ensure git bisects don't break while
> the changes to the reclaim algorithms are in progress.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> index 685a21cd24c0..3e1d0e1439e2 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> @@ -662,6 +662,36 @@ xfs_ail_push_all(
> xfs_ail_push(ailp, threshold_lsn);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Push the AIL to a specific lsn and wait for it to complete.
> + */
> +void
> +xfs_ail_push_sync(
> + struct xfs_ail *ailp,
> + xfs_lsn_t threshold_lsn)
> +{
> + struct xfs_log_item *lip;
> + DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> +
> + spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> + while ((lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp)) != NULL) {
> + prepare_to_wait(&ailp->ail_push, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> + if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ailp->ail_mount) ||
> + XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, lip->li_lsn) < 0)
> + break;
> + if (XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->ail_target) > 0)
> + ailp->ail_target = threshold_lsn;
> + wake_up_process(ailp->ail_task);
> + spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> + schedule();
> + spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> + }
> + spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +
> + finish_wait(&ailp->ail_push, &wait);
> +}
> +
> +
> /*
> * Push out all items in the AIL immediately and wait until the AIL is empty.
> */
> @@ -702,6 +732,7 @@ xfs_ail_update_finish(
> if (!XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
> xlog_assign_tail_lsn_locked(mp);
>
> + wake_up_all(&ailp->ail_push);
> if (list_empty(&ailp->ail_head))
> wake_up_all(&ailp->ail_empty);
> spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> @@ -858,6 +889,7 @@ xfs_trans_ail_init(
> spin_lock_init(&ailp->ail_lock);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ailp->ail_buf_list);
> init_waitqueue_head(&ailp->ail_empty);
> + init_waitqueue_head(&ailp->ail_push);
>
> ailp->ail_task = kthread_run(xfsaild, ailp, "xfsaild/%s",
> ailp->ail_mount->m_fsname);
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> index 35655eac01a6..1b6f4bbd47c0 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct xfs_ail {
> int ail_log_flush;
> struct list_head ail_buf_list;
> wait_queue_head_t ail_empty;
> + wait_queue_head_t ail_push;
> };
>
> /*
> @@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ xfs_trans_ail_remove(
> }
>
> void xfs_ail_push(struct xfs_ail *, xfs_lsn_t);
> +void xfs_ail_push_sync(struct xfs_ail *, xfs_lsn_t);
> void xfs_ail_push_all(struct xfs_ail *);
> void xfs_ail_push_all_sync(struct xfs_ail *);
> struct xfs_log_item *xfs_ail_min(struct xfs_ail *ailp);
> --
> 2.24.0.rc0
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-05 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 23:45 [PATCH 00/28] mm, xfs: non-blocking inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 01/28] xfs: Lower CIL flush limit for large logs Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 02/28] xfs: Throttle commits on delayed background CIL push Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:04 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-01 21:40 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 22:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 03/28] xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 04/28] xfs: Improve metadata buffer reclaim accountability Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-04 23:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 05/28] xfs: correctly acount for reclaimable slabs Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 06/28] xfs: factor common AIL item deletion code Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 23:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 07/28] xfs: tail updates only need to occur when LSN changes Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 23:18 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 08/28] xfs: factor inode lookup from xfs_ifree_cluster Dave Chinner
2019-11-01 12:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-04 23:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 23:45 ` [PATCH 09/28] mm: directed shrinker work deferral Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:25 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 20:49 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 17:21 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-18 0:49 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-19 15:12 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 10/28] shrinkers: use defer_work for GFP_NOFS sensitive shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 11/28] mm: factor shrinker work calculations Dave Chinner
2019-11-02 10:55 ` kbuild test robot
2019-11-04 15:29 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 20:59 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 12/28] shrinker: defer work only to kswapd Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:29 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:11 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 17:23 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 13/28] shrinker: clean up variable types and tracepoints Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 15:30 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 14/28] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 15/28] mm: back off direct reclaim on excessive shrinker deferral Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:28 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 16/28] mm: kswapd backoff for shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 19:58 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:41 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 17/28] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05 ` Brian Foster [this message]
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 18/28] xfs: don't block kswapd in inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 19/28] xfs: reduce kswapd blocking on inode locking Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 20/28] xfs: kill background reclaim work Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 21/28] xfs: use AIL pushing for inode reclaim IO Dave Chinner
2019-11-05 17:06 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 22/28] xfs: remove mode from xfs_reclaim_inodes() Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 23/28] xfs: track reclaimable inodes using a LRU list Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 24/28] xfs: reclaim inodes from the LRU Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:21 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:51 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 25/28] xfs: remove unusued old inode reclaim code Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:21 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 26/28] xfs: use xfs_ail_push_all in xfs_reclaim_inodes Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 17:22 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 21:53 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 27/28] rwsem: introduce down/up_write_non_owner Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 23:46 ` [PATCH 28/28] xfs: rework unreferenced inode lookups Dave Chinner
2019-11-06 22:18 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-14 22:16 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-15 13:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-15 17:26 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-18 1:00 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-19 15:13 ` Brian Foster
2019-11-19 21:18 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-20 12:42 ` Brian Foster
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