* new refcount in struct net, controlling actual freeing of the memory
* new method in kobj_ns_type_operations (->drop_ns())
* ->current_ns() semantics change - it's supposed to be followed by
corresponding ->drop_ns(). For struct net in case of CONFIG_NET_NS it bumps
the new refcount; net_drop_ns() decrements it and calls net_free() if the
last reference has been dropped. Method renamed to ->grab_current_ns().
* old net_free() callers call net_drop_ns() instead.
* sysfs_exit_ns() is gone, along with a large part of callchain
leading to it; now that the references stored in ->ns[...] stay valid we
do not need to hunt them down and replace them with NULL. That fixes
problems in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_readdir(), along with getting rid
of sb->s_instances abuse.
Note that struct net *shutdown* logics has not changed - net_cleanup()
is called exactly when it used to be called. The only thing postponed by
having a sysfs instance refering to that struct net is actual freeing of
memory occupied by struct net.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* set ->s_fs_info in set() callback passed to sget()
* allocate the thing and set it up enough for afs_test_super() before
making it visible
* have it freed in ->kill_sb() (current tree simply leaks it)
* have ->put_super() leave ->s_fs_info->volume alone; it's too early for
dropping it; do that from ->kill_sb() after having called kill_anon_super().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* allocate ubifs_info in ->mount(), fill it enough for sb_test() and
set ->s_fs_info to it in set() callback passed to sget().
* do *not* free it in ->put_super(); do that in ->kill_sb() after we'd
done kill_anon_super().
* don't free it in ubifs_fill_super() either - deactivate_locked_super()
done by caller when ubifs_fill_super() returns an error will take care
of that sucker.
* get rid of kludge with passing ubi to ubifs_fill_super() in ->s_fs_info;
we only need it in alloc_ubifs_info(), so ubifs_fill_super() will need
only ubifs_info. Which it will find in ->s_fs_info just fine, no need to
reassign anything...
As the result, sb_test() becomes safe to apply to all superblocks that
can be found by sget() (and a kludge with temporary use of ->s_fs_info
to store a pointer to very different structure goes away).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
Btrfs: use join_transaction in btrfs_evict_inode()
Btrfs - use %pU to print fsid
Btrfs: fix extent state leak on failed nodatasum reads
btrfs: fix unlocked access of delalloc_inodes
Btrfs: avoid stack bloat in btrfs_ioctl_fs_info()
btrfs: remove 64bit alignment padding to allow extent_buffer to fit into one fewer cacheline
Btrfs: clear current->journal_info on async transaction commit
Btrfs: make sure to recheck for bitmaps in clusters
btrfs: remove unneeded includes from scrub.c
btrfs: reinitialize scrub workers
btrfs: scrub: errors in tree enumeration
Btrfs: don't map extent buffer if path->skip_locking is set
Btrfs: unlock the trans lock properly
Btrfs: don't map extent buffer if path->skip_locking is set
Btrfs: fix duplicate checking logic
Btrfs: fix the allocator loop logic
Btrfs: fix bitmap regression
Btrfs: don't commit the transaction if we dont have enough pinned bytes
Btrfs: noinline the cluster searching functions
Btrfs: cache bitmaps when searching for a cluster
The WARN_ON() in start_transaction() was triggered while balancing.
The cause is btrfs_relocate_chunk() started a transaction and
then called iput() on the inode that stores free space cache,
and iput() called btrfs_start_transaction() again.
Reported-by: Tsutomu Itoh <t-itoh@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Checkpoint generation interval of nilfs goes wrong after user has
changed the interval parameter with nilfs-tune tool.
segctord starting. Construction interval = 5 seconds,
CP frequency < 30 seconds
segctord starting. Construction interval = 0 seconds,
CP frequency < 30 seconds
This turned out to be caused by a trivial bug in initialization code
of log writer. This will fix it.
Reported-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
nilfs_btree_delete function does not terminate part of virtual block
addresses when shrinking the last remaining child node into the root
node. The missing address termination causes that dead btree node
blocks persist and chip away free disk space.
This fixes the leak bug on the btree node deletion.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
nilfs_btree_delete function wrongly terminates virtual block address
of the btree node held by its parent at index 0. When concatenating
the index-0 node with its right sibling node, nilfs_btree_delete
terminates the block address of index-0 node instead of the right
sibling node which should be deleted.
This bug not only wears disk space in the long run, but also causes
file system corruption. This will fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Get rid of FIXME comment. Uuids from dmesg are now the same as uuids
given by btrfs-progs.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
When encountering an EIO while reading from a nodatasum extent, we
insert an error record into the inode's failure tree.
btrfs_readpage_end_io_hook returns early for nodatasum inodes. We'd
better clear the failure tree in that case, otherwise the kernel
complains about
BUG extent_state: Objects remaining on kmem_cache_close()
on rmmod.
Signed-off-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
list_splice_init will make delalloc_inodes empty, but without a spinlock
around, this may produce corrupted list head, accessed in many placess,
The race window is very tight and nobody seems to have hit it so far.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
The size of struct btrfs_ioctl_fs_info_args is as big as 1KB, so
don't declare the variable on stack.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Reorder extent_buffer to remove 8 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds. This shrinks its size to 128 bytes allowing it to fit into one
fewer cache lines and allows more objects per slab in its kmem_cache.
slabinfo extent_buffer reports :-
before:-
Sizes (bytes) Slabs
----------------------------------
Object : 136 Total : 123
SlabObj: 136 Full : 121
SlabSiz: 4096 Partial: 0
Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 2
Align : 8 Objects: 30
after :-
Object : 128 Total : 4
SlabObj: 128 Full : 2
SlabSiz: 4096 Partial: 0
Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 2
Align : 8 Objects: 32
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Normally current->jouranl_info is cleared by commit_transaction. For an
async snap or subvol creation, though, it runs in a work queue. Clear
it in btrfs_commit_transaction_async() to avoid leaking a non-NULL
journal_info when we return to userspace. When the actual commit runs in
the other thread it won't care that it's current->journal_info is already
NULL.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Tested-by: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Josef recently changed the free extent cache to look in
the block group cluster for any bitmaps before trying to
add a new bitmap for the same offset. This avoids BUG_ON()s due
covering duplicate ranges.
But it didn't go quite far enough. A given free range might span
between one or more bitmaps or free space entries. The code has
looping to cover this, but it doesn't check for clustered bitmaps
every time.
This shuffles our gotos to check for a bitmap in the cluster
for every new bitmap entry we try to add.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Scrub starts the workers each time a scrub starts and stops them after it
finished. This patch adds an initialization for the workers before each
start, otherwise the workers behave strangely.
Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
due to the semantics of btrfs_search_slot the path can point to an
invalid slot when ret > 0. This condition went unnoticed, which in
turn could have led to an incomplete scrubbing.
Signed-off-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Arne's scrub stuff exposed a problem with mapping the extent buffer in
reada_for_search. He searches the commit root with multiple threads and with
skip_locking set, so we can race and overwrite node->map_token since node isn't
locked. So fix this so that we only map the extent buffer if we don't already
have a map_token and skip_locking isn't set. Without this patch scrub would
panic almost immediately, with the patch it doesn't panic anymore. Thanks,
Reported-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function. This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.
With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.
Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In btrfs_wait_for_commit if we came upon a transaction that had committed we
just exited, but that's bad since we are holding the trans_lock. So break
instead so that the lock is dropped. Thanks,
Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Arne's scrub stuff exposed a problem with mapping the extent buffer in
reada_for_search. He searches the commit root with multiple threads and with
skip_locking set, so we can race and overwrite node->map_token since node isn't
locked. So fix this so that we only map the extent buffer if we don't already
have a map_token and skip_locking isn't set. Without this patch scrub would
panic almost immediately, with the patch it doesn't panic anymore. Thanks,
Reported-by: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: trivial: add space in fsc error message
cifs: silence printk when establishing first session on socket
CIFS ACL support needs CONFIG_KEYS, so depend on it
possible memory corruption in cifs_parse_mount_options()
cifs: make CIFS depend on CRYPTO_ECB
cifs: fix the kernel release version in the default security warning message
When merging my code into the integration test the second check for duplicate
entries got screwed up. This patch fixes it by dropping ret2 and just using ret
for the return value, and checking if we got an error before adding the bitmap
to the local list. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
I was testing with empty_cluster = 0 to try and reproduce a problem and kept
hitting early enospc panics. This was because our loop logic was a little
confused. So this is what I did
1) Make the loop variable the ultimate decider on wether we should loop again
isntead of checking to see if we had an uncached bg, empty size or empty
cluster.
2) Increment loop before checking to see what we are on to make the loop
definitions make more sense.
3) If we are on the chunk alloc loop don't set empty_size/empty_cluster to 0
unless we didn't actually allocate a chunk. If we did allocate a chunk we
should be able to easily setup a new cluster so clearing
empty_size/empty_cluster makes us less efficient.
This kept me from hitting panics while trying to reproduce the other problem.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
In cleaning up the clustering code I accidently introduced a regression by
adding bitmap entries to the cluster rb tree. The problem is if we've maxed out
the number of bitmaps we can have for the block group we can only add free space
to the bitmaps, but since the bitmap is on the cluster we can't find it and we
try to create another one. This would result in a panic because the total
bitmaps was bigger than the max bitmaps that were allowed. This patch fixes
this by checking to see if we have a cluster, and then looking at the cluster rb
tree to see if it has a bitmap entry and if it does and that space belongs to
that bitmap, go ahead and add it to that bitmap.
I could hit this panic every time with an fs_mark test within a couple of
minutes. With this patch I no longer hit the panic and fs_mark goes to
completion. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
I noticed when running an enospc test that we would get stuck committing the
transaction in check_data_space even though we truly didn't have enough space.
So check to see if bytes_pinned is bigger than num_bytes, if it's not don't
commit the transaction. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
When profiling the find cluster code it's hard to tell where we are spending our
time because the bitmap and non-bitmap functions get inlined by the compiler, so
make that not happen. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
If we are looking for a cluster in a particularly sparse or fragmented block
group, we will do a lot of looping through the free space tree looking for
various things, and if we need to look at bitmaps we will endup doing the whole
dance twice. So instead add the bitmap entries to a temporary list so if we
have to do the bitmap search we can just look through the list of entries we've
found quickly instead of having to loop through the entire tree again. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
If we request a lock and then abort (e.g., ^C), we need to send a matching
unlock request to the MDS to unwind our lock attempt to avoid indefinitely
blocking other clients.
Reported-by: Brian Chrisman <brchrisman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Getting ENOENT is equivalent to reading 0 bytes. Make that correction
before setting up the hit_stripe and was_short flags.
Fixes the following case:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fs_depot/dd3 bs=1 seek=1048576 count=0
dd if=/mnt/fs_depot/dd3 of=/root/ddout1 skip=8 bs=500 count=2 iflag=direct
Reported-by: Henry C Chang <henry.cy.chang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
If we get a short read from the OSD because the object is small, we need to
zero the remainder of the buffer. For O_DIRECT reads, the attempted range
is not trimmed to i_size by the VFS, so we were actually looping
indefinitely.
Fix by trimming by i_size, and the unconditionally zeroing the trailing
range.
Reported-by: Jeff Wu <cpwu@tnsoft.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
We should use ihold whenever we already have a stable inode ref, even
when we aren't holding i_lock. This avoids adding new and unnecessary
locking dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
* 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
vfs: make unlink() and rmdir() return ENOENT in preference to EROFS
lmLogOpen() broken failure exit
usb: remove bad dput after dentry_unhash
more conservative S_NOSEC handling
Note that it adds a little overheads to account the moved/enqueued
inodes from b_dirty to b_io. The "moved" accounting may be later used to
limit the number of inodes that can be moved in one shot, in order to
keep spinlock hold time under control.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
It is valuable to know how the dirty inodes are iterated and their IO size.
"writeback_single_inode: bdi 8:0: ino=134246746 state=I_DIRTY_SYNC|I_SYNC age=414 index=0 to_write=1024 wrote=0"
- "state" reflects inode->i_state at the end of writeback_single_inode()
- "index" reflects mapping->writeback_index after the ->writepages() call
- "to_write" is the wbc->nr_to_write at entrance of writeback_single_inode()
- "wrote" is the number of pages actually written
v2: add trace event writeback_single_inode_requeue as proposed by Dave.
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Remove two unused struct writeback_control fields:
.encountered_congestion (completely unused)
.nonblocking (never set, checked/showed in XFS,NFS/btrfs)
The .for_background check in nfs_write_inode() is also removed btw,
as .for_background implies WB_SYNC_NONE.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
When wbc.more_io was first introduced, it indicates whether there are
at least one superblock whose s_more_io contains more IO work. Now with
the per-bdi writeback, it can be replaced with a simple b_more_io test.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
This removes writeback_control.wb_start and does more straightforward
sync livelock prevention by setting .older_than_this to prevent extra
inodes from being enqueued in the first place.
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Code refactor for more logical code layout.
No behavior change.
- remove the mis-named __writeback_inodes_sb()
- wb_writeback()/writeback_inodes_wb() will decide when to queue_io()
before calling __writeback_inodes_wb()
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Split the global inode_wb_list_lock into a per-bdi_writeback list_lock,
as it's currently the most contended lock in the system for metadata
heavy workloads. It won't help for single-filesystem workloads for
which we'll need the I/O-less balance_dirty_pages, but at least we
can dedicate a cpu to spinning on each bdi now for larger systems.
Based on earlier patches from Nick Piggin and Dave Chinner.
It reduces lock contentions to 1/4 in this test case:
10 HDD JBOD, 100 dd on each disk, XFS, 6GB ram
lock_stat version 0.3
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vanilla 2.6.39-rc3:
inode_wb_list_lock: 42590 44433 0.12 147.74 144127.35 252274 886792 0.08 121.34 917211.23
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
inode_wb_list_lock 34 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
inode_wb_list_lock 12893 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 10702 [<ffffffff8115afef>] writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x20a
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
inode_wb_list_lock 19 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
inode_wb_list_lock 5550 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 8511 [<ffffffff8115b4ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157
2.6.39-rc3 + patch:
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock: 11383 11657 0.14 151.69 40429.51 90825 527918 0.11 145.90 556843.37
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 10 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1493 [<ffffffff8115b1ed>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3d/0x150
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3652 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1412 [<ffffffff8115a38e>] writeback_single_inode+0x17f/0x223
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3 [<ffffffff8110b5af>] bdi_lock_two+0x46/0x4b
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 6 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2061 [<ffffffff8115af97>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2629 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f
hughd@google.com: fix recursive lock when bdi_lock_two() is called with new the same as old
akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup bdev_inode_switch_bdi() comment
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
There is no point to carry different refill policies between for_kupdate
and other type of works. Use a consistent "refill b_io iff empty" policy
which can guarantee fairness in an easy to understand way.
A b_io refill will setup a _fixed_ work set with all currently eligible
inodes and start a new round of walk through b_io. The "fixed" work set
means no new inodes will be added to the work set during the walk.
Only when a complete walk over b_io is done, new inodes that are
eligible at the time will be enqueued and the walk be started over.
This procedure provides fairness among the inodes because it guarantees
each inode to be synced once and only once at each round. So all inodes
will be free from starvations.
This change relies on wb_writeback() to keep retrying as long as we made
some progress on cleaning some pages and/or inodes. Without that ability,
the old logic on background works relies on aggressively queuing all
eligible inodes into b_io at every time. But that's not a guarantee.
The below test script completes a slightly faster now:
2.6.39-rc3 2.6.39-rc3-dyn-expire+
------------------------------------------------
all elapsed 256.043 252.367
stddev 24.381 12.530
tar elapsed 30.097 28.808
dd elapsed 13.214 11.782
#!/bin/zsh
cp /c/linux-2.6.38.3.tar.bz2 /dev/shm/
umount /dev/sda7
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda7
mount /dev/sda7 /fs
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
tic=$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d' ' -f2)
cd /fs
time tar jxf /dev/shm/linux-2.6.38.3.tar.bz2 &
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/fs/zero bs=1M count=1000 &
wait
sync
tac=$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d' ' -f2)
echo elapsed: $((tac - tic))
It maintains roughly the same small vs. large file writeout shares, and
offers large files better chances to be written in nice 4M chunks.
Analyzes from Dave Chinner in great details:
Let's say we have lots of inodes with 100 dirty pages being created,
and one large writeback going on. We expire 8 new inodes for every
1024 pages we write back.
With the old code, we do:
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l)
8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 8s)
writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (8s, 1l)
8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (8s, 1l, 8s)
writeback 8 small inodes 800 pages
1 large inode 224 pages -> b_more_io
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (8s, 1l)
8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (8s, 1l, 8s)
.....
Your new code:
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l)
8 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 8s)
writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io
(b_io == 8s)
writeback 8 small inodes 800 pages
b_io empty: (1800 pages written)
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l)
14 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 14s)
writeback large inode 1024 pages -> b_more_io
(b_io == 14s)
writeback 10 small inodes 1000 pages
1 small inode 24 pages -> b_more_io (1l, 1s(24))
writeback 5 small inodes 500 pages
b_io empty: (2548 pages written)
b_more_io (large inode) -> b_io (1l, 1s(24))
20 newly expired inodes -> b_io (1l, 1s(24), 20s)
......
Rough progression of pages written at b_io refill:
Old code:
total large file % of writeback
1024 224 21.9% (fixed)
New code:
total large file % of writeback
1800 1024 ~55%
2550 1024 ~40%
3050 1024 ~33%
3500 1024 ~29%
3950 1024 ~26%
4250 1024 ~24%
4500 1024 ~22.7%
4700 1024 ~21.7%
4800 1024 ~21.3%
4800 1024 ~21.3%
(pretty much steady state from here)
Ok, so the steady state is reached with a similar percentage of
writeback to the large file as the existing code. Ok, that's good,
but providing some evidence that is doesn't change the shared of
writeback to the large should be in the commit message ;)
The other advantage to this is that we always write 1024 page chunks
to the large file, rather than smaller "whatever remains" chunks.
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Dynamically compute the dirty expire timestamp at queue_io() time.
writeback_control.older_than_this used to be determined at entrance to
the kupdate writeback work. This _static_ timestamp may go stale if the
kupdate work runs on and on. The flusher may then stuck with some old
busy inodes, never considering newly expired inodes thereafter.
This has two possible problems:
- It is unfair for a large dirty inode to delay (for a long time) the
writeback of small dirty inodes.
- As time goes by, the large and busy dirty inode may contain only
_freshly_ dirtied pages. Ignoring newly expired dirty inodes risks
delaying the expired dirty pages to the end of LRU lists, triggering
the evil pageout(). Nevertheless this patch merely addresses part
of the problem.
v2: keep policy changes inside wb_writeback() and keep the
wbc.older_than_this visibility as suggested by Dave.
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
