From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] xfs: queue inactivation immediately when free space is tight
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 15:31:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210805053134.GW2757197@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <162812921593.2589546.139493086066282940.stgit@magnolia>
On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 07:06:55PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
>
> Now that we have made the inactivation of unlinked inodes a background
> task to increase the throughput of file deletions, we need to be a
> little more careful about how long of a delay we can tolerate.
>
> On a mostly empty filesystem, the risk of the allocator making poor
> decisions due to fragmentation of the free space on account a lengthy
> delay in background updates is minimal because there's plenty of space.
> However, if free space is tight, we want to deallocate unlinked inodes
> as quickly as possible to avoid fallocate ENOSPC and to give the
> allocator the best shot at optimal allocations for new writes.
>
> Therefore, queue the percpu worker immediately if the filesystem is more
> than 95% full. This follows the same principle that XFS becomes less
> aggressive about speculative allocations and lazy cleanup (and more
> precise about accounting) when nearing full.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-05 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-05 2:06 [PATCHSET v9 00/14] xfs: deferred inode inactivation Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 01/14] xfs: introduce CPU hotplug infrastructure Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 02/14] xfs: introduce all-mounts list for cpu hotplug notifications Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 03/14] xfs: move xfs_inactive call to xfs_inode_mark_reclaimable Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:29 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 04/14] xfs: detach dquots from inode if we don't need to inactivate it Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:30 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 05/14] xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 6:43 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 7:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 22:15 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 22:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-07 0:21 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-07 21:49 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-09 23:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 2:06 ` [PATCH 06/14] xfs: queue inactivation immediately when free space is tight Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:31 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 07/14] xfs: queue inactivation immediately when quota is nearing enforcement Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:35 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 08/14] xfs: queue inactivation immediately when free realtime extents are tight Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:36 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 09/14] xfs: inactivate inodes any time we try to free speculative preallocations Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:36 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 10/14] xfs: flush inode inactivation work when compiling usage statistics Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:38 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 11/14] xfs: don't run speculative preallocation gc when fs is frozen Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:40 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 12/14] xfs: use background worker pool when transactions can't get free space Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:42 ` Dave Chinner
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 13/14] xfs: avoid buffer deadlocks when walking fs inodes Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 2:07 ` [PATCH 14/14] xfs: throttle inode inactivation queuing on memory reclaim Darrick J. Wong
2021-08-05 5:44 ` Dave Chinner
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