From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] xfs: deferred inode inactivation
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:21:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210317152125.GA384335@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210316154729.GI22100@magnolia>
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:47:29AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:27:10AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Still digesting this. What trips me off a bit is the huge amount of
> > duplication vs the inode reclaim mechanism. Did you look into sharing
> > more code there and if yes what speaks against that?
>
> TBH I didn't look /too/ hard because once upon a time[1] Dave was aiming
> to replace the inode reclaim tagging and iteration with an lru list walk
> so I decided not to entangle the two.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20191009032124.10541-23-david@fromorbit.com/
Well, it isn't just the radix tree tagging, but mostly the
infrastructure in iget that seems duplicates a lot of very delicate
code.
For the actual inactivation run: why don't we queue up the inodes
for deactivation directly that, that use the work_struct in the
inode to directly queue up the inode to the workqueue and let the
workqueue manage the details? That also means we can piggy back on
flush_work and flush_workqueue to force one or more entries out.
Again I'm not saying I know this is better, but this is something that
comes to my mind when reading the code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 3:05 [PATCHSET v3 00/11] xfs: deferred inode inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:05 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: prevent metadata files from being inactivated Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-22 23:13 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-11 3:05 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: refactor the predicate part of xfs_free_eofblocks Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18 4:33 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-19 1:48 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:05 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: don't reclaim dquots with incore reservations Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-15 18:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-22 23:31 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-23 0:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-23 1:48 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: decide if inode needs inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-15 18:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 19:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: rename the blockgc workqueue Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-15 18:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: deferred inode inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-16 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-16 15:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-17 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-03-17 15:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-22 23:46 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-22 23:37 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-23 0:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-23 1:44 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-23 4:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-23 5:19 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-24 2:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-24 4:57 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-25 4:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-24 17:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-25 4:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: expose sysfs knob to control inode inactivation delay Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: force inode inactivation and retry fs writes when there isn't space Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-15 18:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 19:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: force inode garbage collection before fallocate when space is low Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: parallelize inode inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-15 18:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-15 19:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-23 22:21 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-24 3:52 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-11 3:06 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: create a polled function to force " Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-23 22:31 ` Dave Chinner
2021-03-24 3:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
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