From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/26] xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 14:21:01 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191009032124.10541-4-david@fromorbit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009032124.10541-1-david@fromorbit.com>
From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Running metadata intensive workloads, I've been seeing the AIL
pushing getting stuck on pinned buffers and triggering log forces.
The log force is taking a long time to run because the log IO is
getting throttled by wbt_wait() - the block layer writeback
throttle. It's being throttled because there is a huge amount of
metadata writeback going on which is filling the request queue.
IOWs, we have a priority inversion problem here.
Mark the log IO bios with REQ_IDLE so they don't get throttled
by the block layer writeback throttle. When we are forcing the CIL,
we are likely to need to to tens of log IOs, and they are issued as
fast as they can be build and IO completed. Hence REQ_IDLE is
appropriate - it's an indication that more IO will follow shortly.
And because we also set REQ_SYNC, the writeback throttle will no
treat log IO the same way it treats direct IO writes - it will not
throttle them at all. Hence we solve the priority inversion problem
caused by the writeback throttle being unable to distinguish between
high priority log IO and background metadata writeback.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index 6f99d6eae6a4..cf098e19967e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -1751,7 +1751,15 @@ xlog_write_iclog(
iclog->ic_bio.bi_iter.bi_sector = log->l_logBBstart + bno;
iclog->ic_bio.bi_end_io = xlog_bio_end_io;
iclog->ic_bio.bi_private = iclog;
- iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_META | REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA;
+
+ /*
+ * We use REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE here to tell the block layer the are more
+ * IOs coming immediately after this one. This prevents the block layer
+ * writeback throttle from throttling log writes behind background
+ * metadata writeback and causing priority inversions.
+ */
+ iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_META | REQ_SYNC |
+ REQ_IDLE | REQ_FUA;
if (need_flush)
iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf |= REQ_PREFLUSH;
--
2.23.0.rc1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-09 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 3:20 [PATCH V2 00/26] mm, xfs: non-blocking inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:20 ` [PATCH 01/26] xfs: Lower CIL flush limit for large logs Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 12:39 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-30 17:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 02/26] xfs: Throttle commits on delayed background CIL push Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 12:38 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2019-10-11 9:35 ` [PATCH 03/26] xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 12:39 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-30 17:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 04/26] xfs: Improve metadata buffer reclaim accountability Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 12:39 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-11 12:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 23:13 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-12 12:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-13 3:14 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-14 13:05 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-30 17:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-30 21:43 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 3:06 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 20:50 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-31 21:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-31 21:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-03 21:26 ` Dave Chinner
2019-11-04 23:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 05/26] xfs: correctly acount for reclaimable slabs Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 12:39 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-30 17:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 06/26] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 12:40 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-11 23:15 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 07/26] xfs: tail updates only need to occur when LSN changes Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 12:40 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 08/26] mm: directed shrinker work deferral Dave Chinner
2019-10-14 8:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-14 13:06 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-18 7:59 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 09/26] shrinkers: use defer_work for GFP_NOFS sensitive shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 10/26] mm: factor shrinker work calculations Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 11/26] shrinker: defer work only to kswapd Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 12/26] shrinker: clean up variable types and tracepoints Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 13/26] mm: reclaim_state records pages reclaimed, not slabs Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 14/26] mm: back off direct reclaim on excessive shrinker deferral Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 16:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-10-11 23:20 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 15/26] mm: kswapd backoff for shrinkers Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 16/26] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 15:29 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-11 23:27 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-12 12:08 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 17/26] xfs: don't block kswapd in inode reclaim Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 15:29 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 18/26] xfs: reduce kswapd blocking on inode locking Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 19/26] xfs: kill background reclaim work Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 20/26] xfs: use AIL pushing for inode reclaim IO Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 17:38 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 21/26] xfs: remove mode from xfs_reclaim_inodes() Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-14 13:07 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 22/26] xfs: track reclaimable inodes using a LRU list Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-14 13:07 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 23/26] xfs: reclaim inodes from the LRU Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 10:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-30 23:25 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 24/26] xfs: remove unusued old inode reclaim code Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 25/26] xfs: rework unreferenced inode lookups Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 12:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-11 23:38 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-14 13:07 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-17 1:24 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-17 7:57 ` Brian Foster
2019-10-18 20:29 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-09 3:21 ` [PATCH 26/26] xfs: use xfs_ail_push_all_sync in xfs_reclaim_inodes Dave Chinner
2019-10-11 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-09 7:06 ` [PATCH V2 00/26] mm, xfs: non-blocking inode reclaim Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-11 19:03 ` Josef Bacik
2019-10-11 23:48 ` Dave Chinner
2019-10-12 0:19 ` Josef Bacik
2019-10-12 0:48 ` Dave Chinner
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