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* [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock
@ 2012-02-23 22:30 Tejun Heo
  2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] mempool: factor out mempool_fill() Tejun Heo
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 56+ messages in thread
From: Tejun Heo @ 2012-02-23 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: axboe, vgoyal, akpm, hughd
  Cc: avi, nate, cl, linux-kernel, dpshah, ctalbott, rni

Hello, guys.

This patchset is combination of the patchset "block, mempool, percpu:
implement percpu mempool and fix blkcg percpu alloc deadlock" [1] and
patches to remove blkg->stats_lock.

* percpu mempool and percpu stat allocation

Andrew, Hugh, other than the fourth patch updated for the current
blkcg branch, all the mempool changes are the same as before.  I tried
several different approaches to remove the percpu stats but failed to
do so without introducing something even sillier, so unless we're
gonna break userland visible stats, we need some form of NOIO percpu
allocation mechanism.

I don't think implementing private allocation queue in blkcg proper is
a good option.  Doing it from percpu counter has the advantage of not
losing any count while percpu allocation is in progress but it feels
weird like a spoon which can be used as a screw driver.  So, it still
seems to me that utilizing mempool code is the least of all evils.

The plan is to isolate these percpu stats into blk-throttle and
implement soft failure for stat allocation failure, so simple
buffering with opportunistic refilling should do.

If people agree with this, I think it would be best to route these
changes through block/core along with other blkcg updates.  If
somebody still disagrees, scream.

* removal of blkg->stats_lock

After the recent plug merge updates, all non-percpu stats are updated
under queue_lock, so use u64_stats_sync instead of spinlock.

 0001-mempool-factor-out-mempool_fill.patch
 0002-mempool-separate-out-__mempool_create.patch
 0003-mempool-percpu-implement-percpu-mempool.patch
 0004-block-fix-deadlock-through-percpu-allocation-in-blk-.patch
 0005-blkcg-don-t-use-percpu-for-merged-stats.patch
 0006-blkcg-simplify-stat-reset.patch
 0007-blkcg-restructure-blkio_get_stat.patch
 0008-blkcg-remove-blkio_group-stats_lock.patch

0001-0003 implement percpu mempool.

0004 make blk-cgroup use it to fix the GFP_KERNEL allocation from IO
path bug.

0005-0008 replace blkg->stats_lock with u64_stats_sync.

This patchset is on top of

  block/for-linus 621032ad6e "block: exit_io_context() should call eleva..."
+ [2] blkcg: accumulated blkcg updates

and available in the following git branch.

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git blkcg-stats

Thanks.

 block/blk-cgroup.c      |  399 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
 block/blk-cgroup.h      |   29 ++-
 include/linux/mempool.h |   80 +++++++++
 mm/mempool.c            |  208 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 462 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)

--
tejun

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1232735
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1256355

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2012-02-23 22:30 [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] mempool: factor out mempool_fill() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] mempool: separate out __mempool_create() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] mempool, percpu: implement percpu mempool Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: fix deadlock through percpu allocation in blk-cgroup Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] blkcg: don't use percpu for merged stats Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] blkcg: simplify stat reset Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] blkcg: restructure blkio_get_stat() Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] blkcg: remove blkio_group->stats_lock Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 22:43 ` [PATCHSET] mempool, percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 23:01   ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:12     ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-23 23:22       ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-23 23:24         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-24 14:20       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:44         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27  3:11           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-27  9:11             ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 19:43               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 17:36                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 22:13                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-06 21:09                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:20                       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-06 21:34                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-06 21:55                           ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 14:55                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 17:05                               ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:13                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 19:22                                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 19:42                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-07 22:56                                       ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:08                                         ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 23:15                                           ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-07 23:05                               ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-08 17:57                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:08                                   ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:11                                     ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 18:22                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 18:27                                         ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-15 16:48                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-15 16:59                                             ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-20 11:50                                               ` Jens Axboe
2012-03-08 20:16                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:33                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-08 20:35                                         ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-08 19:06                                   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-25  3:44       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-25 21:46         ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-25 22:21           ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 14:25             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-27 14:40               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:45                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-02-27 18:22       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-02-29 19:03         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-03-05 17:20           ` Tejun Heo
2012-03-05 18:03             ` Vivek Goyal

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