From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752296Ab2KPRFB (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:05:01 -0500 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.232.25]:32926 "EHLO relay.sw.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752127Ab2KPRFA (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:05:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH v2 00/14] fuse: An attempt to implement a write-back cache policy To: miklos@szeredi.hu From: Maxim Patlasov Cc: dev@parallels.com, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbottomley@parallels.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xemul@openvz.org Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:04:33 +0400 Message-ID: <20121116170123.3196.93431.stgit@maximpc.sw.ru> User-Agent: StGit/0.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This is the second iteration of Pavel Emelyanov's patch-set implementing write-back policy for FUSE page cache. Initial patch-set description was the following: One of the problems with the existing FUSE implementation is that it uses the write-through cache policy which results in performance problems on certain workloads. E.g. when copying a big file into a FUSE file the cp pushes every 128k to the userspace synchronously. This becomes a problem when the userspace back-end uses networking for storing the data. A good solution of this is switching the FUSE page cache into a write-back policy. With this file data are pushed to the userspace with big chunks (depending on the dirty memory limits, but this is much more than 128k) which lets the FUSE daemons handle the size updates in a more efficient manner. The writeback feature is per-connection and is explicitly configurable at the init stage (is it worth making it CAP_SOMETHING protected?) When the writeback is turned ON: * still copy writeback pages to temporary buffer when sending a writeback request and finish the page writeback immediately * make kernel maintain the inode's i_size to avoid frequent i_size synchronization with the user space * take NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP into account when makeing balance_dirty_pages decision. This protects us from having too many dirty pages on FUSE The provided patchset survives the fsx test. Performance measurements are not yet all finished, but the mentioned copying of a huge file becomes noticeably faster even on machines with few RAM and doesn't make the system stuck (the dirty pages balancer does its work OK). Applies on top of v3.5-rc4. We are currently exploring this with our own distributed storage implementation which is heavily oriented on storing big blobs of data with extremely rare meta-data updates (virtual machines' and containers' disk images). With the existing cache policy a typical usage scenario -- copying a big VM disk into a cloud -- takes way too much time to proceed, much longer than if it was simply scp-ed over the same network. The write-back policy (as I mentioned) noticeably improves this scenario. Kirill (in Cc) can share more details about the performance and the storage concepts details if required. Changed in v2: - numerous bugfixes: - fuse_write_begin and fuse_writepages_fill and fuse_writepage_locked must wait on page writeback because page writeback can extend beyond the lifetime of the page-cache page - fuse_send_writepages can end_page_writeback on original page only after adding request to fi->writepages list; otherwise another writeback may happen inside the gap between end_page_writeback and adding to the list - fuse_direct_io must wait on page writeback; otherwise data corruption is possible due to reordering requests - fuse_flush must flush dirty memory and wait for all writeback on given inode before sending FUSE_FLUSH to userspace; otherwise FUSE_FLUSH is not reliable - fuse_file_fallocate must hold i_mutex around FUSE_FALLOCATE and i_size update; otherwise a race with a writer extending i_size is possible - fix handling errors in fuse_writepages and fuse_send_writepages - handle i_mtime intelligently if writeback cache is on (see patch #7 (update i_mtime on buffered writes) for details. - put enabling writeback cache under fusermount control; (see mount option 'allow_wbcache' introduced by patch #13 (turn writeback cache on)) - rebased on v3.7-rc5 Thanks, Maxim --- Maxim Patlasov (14): fuse: Linking file to inode helper fuse: Getting file for writeback helper fuse: Prepare to handle short reads fuse: Prepare to handle multiple pages in writeback fuse: Connection bit for enabling writeback fuse: Trust kernel i_size only fuse: Update i_mtime on buffered writes fuse: Flush files on wb close fuse: Implement writepages and write_begin/write_end callbacks fuse: fuse_writepage_locked() should wait on writeback fuse: fuse_flush() should wait on writeback fuse: Fix O_DIRECT operations vs cached writeback misorder fuse: Turn writeback cache on mm: Account for WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages fs/fuse/dir.c | 51 ++++ fs/fuse/file.c | 523 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 20 ++ fs/fuse/inode.c | 98 ++++++++ include/uapi/linux/fuse.h | 1 mm/page-writeback.c | 3 6 files changed, 638 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) -- Signature