From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-f48.google.com (mail-qg0-f48.google.com [209.85.192.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F066B829CE for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 17:15:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qgez61 with SMTP id z61so16259717qge.1 for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 14:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qg0-x22a.google.com (mail-qg0-x22a.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22a]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i30si3684143qkh.105.2015.05.22.14.15.22 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 22 May 2015 14:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by qgez61 with SMTP id z61so16259580qge.1 for ; Fri, 22 May 2015 14:15:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Tejun Heo Subject: [PATCH 34/51] writeback: don't issue wb_writeback_work if clean Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 17:13:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1432329245-5844-35-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <1432329245-5844-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1432329245-5844-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, hch@infradead.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, lizefan@huawei.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@suse.cz, clm@fb.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com, david@fromorbit.com, gthelen@google.com, khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru, Tejun Heo There are several places in fs/fs-writeback.c which queues wb_writeback_work without checking whether the target wb (bdi_writeback) has dirty inodes or not. The only thing wb_writeback_work does is writing back the dirty inodes for the target wb and queueing a work item for a clean wb is essentially noop. There are some side effects such as bandwidth stats being updated and triggering tracepoints but these don't affect the operation in any meaningful way. This patch makes all writeback_inodes_sb_nr() and sync_inodes_sb() skip wb_queue_work() if the target bdi is clean. Also, it moves dirtiness check from wakeup_flusher_threads() to __wb_start_writeback() so that all its callers benefit from the check. While the overhead incurred by scheduling a noop work isn't currently significant, the overhead may be higher with cgroup writeback support as we may end up issuing noop work items to a lot of clean wb's. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Jan Kara --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index c98d392..921a9e4 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ static void __wb_start_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, long nr_pages, { struct wb_writeback_work *work; + if (!wb_has_dirty_io(wb)) + return; + /* * This is WB_SYNC_NONE writeback, so if allocation fails just * wakeup the thread for old dirty data writeback @@ -1215,11 +1218,8 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason) nr_pages = get_nr_dirty_pages(); rcu_read_lock(); - list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) { - if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi)) - continue; + list_for_each_entry_rcu(bdi, &bdi_list, bdi_list) __wb_start_writeback(&bdi->wb, nr_pages, false, reason); - } rcu_read_unlock(); } @@ -1512,11 +1512,12 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, .nr_pages = nr, .reason = reason, }; + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = sb->s_bdi; - if (sb->s_bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info) + if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi) || bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info) return; WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); - wb_queue_work(&sb->s_bdi->wb, &work); + wb_queue_work(&bdi->wb, &work); wait_for_completion(&done); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(writeback_inodes_sb_nr); @@ -1594,13 +1595,14 @@ void sync_inodes_sb(struct super_block *sb) .reason = WB_REASON_SYNC, .for_sync = 1, }; + struct backing_dev_info *bdi = sb->s_bdi; /* Nothing to do? */ - if (sb->s_bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info) + if (!bdi_has_dirty_io(bdi) || bdi == &noop_backing_dev_info) return; WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); - wb_queue_work(&sb->s_bdi->wb, &work); + wb_queue_work(&bdi->wb, &work); wait_for_completion(&done); wait_sb_inodes(sb); -- 2.4.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org