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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/28] xfs: Throttle commits on delayed background CIL push
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:48:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104224818.GM4153244@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191101214040.GX4614@dread.disaster.area>

On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 08:40:40AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 08:04:26AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:45:52AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > In certain situations the background CIL push can be indefinitely
> > > delayed. While we have workarounds from the obvious cases now, it
> > > doesn't solve the underlying issue. This issue is that there is no
> > > upper limit on the CIL where we will either force or wait for
> > > a background push to start, hence allowing the CIL to grow without
> > > bound until it consumes all log space.
> > > 
> > > To fix this, add a new wait queue to the CIL which allows background
> > > pushes to wait for the CIL context to be switched out. This happens
> > > when the push starts, so it will allow us to block incoming
> > > transaction commit completion until the push has started. This will
> > > only affect processes that are running modifications, and only when
> > > the CIL threshold has been significantly overrun.
> > > 
> > > This has no apparent impact on performance, and doesn't even trigger
> > > until over 45 million inodes had been created in a 16-way fsmark
> > > test on a 2GB log. That was limiting at 64MB of log space used, so
> > > the active CIL size is only about 3% of the total log in that case.
> > > The concurrent removal of those files did not trigger the background
> > > sleep at all.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > I don't recall posting an R-b tag for this one...
> 
> Argh, sorry. I must have screwed up transcribing them from the
> mailing list.
> 
> > That said, I think my only outstanding feedback (side discussion aside)
> > was the code factoring in xlog_cil_push_background().
> 
> I'll go back and look at that, 'cause clearly I was looking at the
> wrong patch when I screwed up the rvb tag...

I'll keep an eye on the list for a revised series.

--D

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ 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 [this message]
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
2019-11-02 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
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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