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authorDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2010-02-06 12:39:36 +1100
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>2010-02-06 12:39:36 +1100
commitc854363e80b49dd04a4de18ebc379eb8c8806674 (patch)
tree8c8d0dec26d961631a3cd8b6c402b5d1444336e5 /fs/xfs
parent777df5afdb26c71634edd60582be620ff94e87a0 (diff)
xfs: Use delayed write for inodes rather than async V2
We currently do background inode flush asynchronously, resulting in inodes being written in whatever order the background writeback issues them. Not only that, there are also blocking and non-blocking asynchronous inode flushes, depending on where the flush comes from. This patch completely removes asynchronous inode writeback. It removes all the strange writeback modes and replaces them with either a synchronous flush or a non-blocking delayed write flush. That is, inode flushes will only issue IO directly if they are synchronous, and background flushing may do nothing if the operation would block (e.g. on a pinned inode or buffer lock). Delayed write flushes will now result in the inode buffer sitting in the delwri queue of the buffer cache to be flushed by either an AIL push or by the xfsbufd timing out the buffer. This will allow accumulation of dirty inode buffers in memory and allow optimisation of inode cluster writeback at the xfsbufd level where we have much greater queue depths than the block layer elevators. We will also get adjacent inode cluster buffer IO merging for free when a later patch in the series allows sorting of the delayed write buffers before dispatch. This effectively means that any inode that is written back by background writeback will be seen as flush locked during AIL pushing, and will result in the buffers being pushed from there. This writeback path is currently non-optimal, but the next patch in the series will fix that problem. A side effect of this delayed write mechanism is that background inode reclaim will no longer directly flush inodes, nor can it wait on the flush lock. The result is that inode reclaim must leave the inode in the reclaimable state until it is clean. Hence attempts to reclaim a dirty inode in the background will simply skip the inode until it is clean and this allows other mechanisms (i.e. xfsbufd) to do more optimal writeback of the dirty buffers. As a result, the inode reclaim code has been rewritten so that it no longer relies on the ambiguous return values of xfs_iflush() to determine whether it is safe to reclaim an inode. Portions of this patch are derived from patches by Christoph Hellwig. Version 2: - cleanup reclaim code as suggested by Christoph - log background reclaim inode flush errors - just pass sync flags to xfs_iflush Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c105
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c75
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h10
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c10
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c13
6 files changed, 102 insertions, 115 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 6ce828e0e17..3b5b46b8e3b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
xfs_iflock(ip);
- error = xfs_iflush(ip, XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_WAIT);
} else {
error = EAGAIN;
if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED))
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
if (xfs_ipincount(ip) || !xfs_iflock_nowait(ip))
goto out_unlock;
- error = xfs_iflush(ip, XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC_NOBLOCK);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
}
out_unlock:
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index 525260c7617..a9f6d20aff4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -270,8 +270,7 @@ xfs_sync_inode_attr(
goto out_unlock;
}
- error = xfs_iflush(ip, (flags & SYNC_WAIT) ?
- XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC : XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI);
+ error = xfs_iflush(ip, flags);
out_unlock:
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
@@ -460,16 +459,18 @@ xfs_quiesce_fs(
{
int count = 0, pincount;
+ xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, 0);
xfs_flush_buftarg(mp->m_ddev_targp, 0);
- xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC);
/*
* This loop must run at least twice. The first instance of the loop
* will flush most meta data but that will generate more meta data
* (typically directory updates). Which then must be flushed and
- * logged before we can write the unmount record.
+ * logged before we can write the unmount record. We also so sync
+ * reclaim of inodes to catch any that the above delwri flush skipped.
*/
do {
+ xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, SYNC_WAIT);
xfs_sync_attr(mp, SYNC_WAIT);
pincount = xfs_flush_buftarg(mp->m_ddev_targp, 1);
if (!pincount) {
@@ -585,7 +586,7 @@ xfs_sync_worker(
if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) {
xfs_log_force(mp, 0);
- xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC);
+ xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, 0);
/* dgc: errors ignored here */
error = xfs_qm_sync(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
error = xfs_sync_fsdata(mp, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
@@ -719,21 +720,42 @@ __xfs_inode_clear_reclaim_tag(
* shutdown EIO unpin and reclaim
* clean, unpinned 0 reclaim
* stale, unpinned 0 reclaim
- * clean, pinned(*) 0 unpin and reclaim
- * stale, pinned 0 unpin and reclaim
- * dirty, async 0 block on flush lock, reclaim
- * dirty, sync flush 0 block on flush lock, reclaim
+ * clean, pinned(*) 0 requeue
+ * stale, pinned EAGAIN requeue
+ * dirty, delwri ok 0 requeue
+ * dirty, delwri blocked EAGAIN requeue
+ * dirty, sync flush 0 reclaim
*
* (*) dgc: I don't think the clean, pinned state is possible but it gets
* handled anyway given the order of checks implemented.
*
+ * As can be seen from the table, the return value of xfs_iflush() is not
+ * sufficient to correctly decide the reclaim action here. The checks in
+ * xfs_iflush() might look like duplicates, but they are not.
+ *
+ * Also, because we get the flush lock first, we know that any inode that has
+ * been flushed delwri has had the flush completed by the time we check that
+ * the inode is clean. The clean inode check needs to be done before flushing
+ * the inode delwri otherwise we would loop forever requeuing clean inodes as
+ * we cannot tell apart a successful delwri flush and a clean inode from the
+ * return value of xfs_iflush().
+ *
+ * Note that because the inode is flushed delayed write by background
+ * writeback, the flush lock may already be held here and waiting on it can
+ * result in very long latencies. Hence for sync reclaims, where we wait on the
+ * flush lock, the caller should push out delayed write inodes first before
+ * trying to reclaim them to minimise the amount of time spent waiting. For
+ * background relaim, we just requeue the inode for the next pass.
+ *
* Hence the order of actions after gaining the locks should be:
* bad => reclaim
* shutdown => unpin and reclaim
- * pinned => unpin
+ * pinned, delwri => requeue
+ * pinned, sync => unpin
* stale => reclaim
* clean => reclaim
- * dirty => flush, wait and reclaim
+ * dirty, delwri => flush and requeue
+ * dirty, sync => flush, wait and reclaim
*/
STATIC int
xfs_reclaim_inode(
@@ -741,7 +763,7 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
struct xfs_perag *pag,
int sync_mode)
{
- int error;
+ int error = 0;
/*
* The radix tree lock here protects a thread in xfs_iget from racing
@@ -761,7 +783,11 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
write_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
- xfs_iflock(ip);
+ if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) {
+ if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT))
+ goto out;
+ xfs_iflock(ip);
+ }
if (is_bad_inode(VFS_I(ip)))
goto reclaim;
@@ -769,8 +795,13 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
goto reclaim;
}
- if (xfs_ipincount(ip))
+ if (xfs_ipincount(ip)) {
+ if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT)) {
+ xfs_ifunlock(ip);
+ goto out;
+ }
xfs_iunpin_wait(ip);
+ }
if (xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ISTALE))
goto reclaim;
if (xfs_inode_clean(ip))
@@ -778,27 +809,43 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
/* Now we have an inode that needs flushing */
error = xfs_iflush(ip, sync_mode);
- if (!error) {
- switch(sync_mode) {
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_SYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC:
- /* IO issued, synchronise with IO completion */
- xfs_iflock(ip);
- break;
- default:
- ASSERT(0);
- break;
- }
+ if (sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT) {
+ xfs_iflock(ip);
+ goto reclaim;
}
+ /*
+ * When we have to flush an inode but don't have SYNC_WAIT set, we
+ * flush the inode out using a delwri buffer and wait for the next
+ * call into reclaim to find it in a clean state instead of waiting for
+ * it now. We also don't return errors here - if the error is transient
+ * then the next reclaim pass will flush the inode, and if the error
+ * is permanent then the next sync reclaim will relcaim the inode and
+ * pass on the error.
+ */
+ if (error && !XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ip->i_mount)) {
+ xfs_fs_cmn_err(CE_WARN, ip->i_mount,
+ "inode 0x%llx background reclaim flush failed with %d",
+ (long long)ip->i_ino, error);
+ }
+out:
+ xfs_iflags_clear(ip, XFS_IRECLAIM);
+ xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+ /*
+ * We could return EAGAIN here to make reclaim rescan the inode tree in
+ * a short while. However, this just burns CPU time scanning the tree
+ * waiting for IO to complete and xfssyncd never goes back to the idle
+ * state. Instead, return 0 to let the next scheduled background reclaim
+ * attempt to reclaim the inode again.
+ */
+ return 0;
+
reclaim:
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
xfs_ireclaim(ip);
- return 0;
+ return error;
+
}
int
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 8d0666dd170..fa31360046d 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2835,8 +2835,6 @@ xfs_iflush(
xfs_dinode_t *dip;
xfs_mount_t *mp;
int error;
- int noblock = (flags == XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC_NOBLOCK);
- enum { INT_DELWRI = (1 << 0), INT_ASYNC = (1 << 1) };
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_iflush_count);
@@ -2859,7 +2857,7 @@ xfs_iflush(
* in the same cluster are dirty, they will probably write the inode
* out for us if they occur after the log force completes.
*/
- if (noblock && xfs_ipincount(ip)) {
+ if (!(flags & SYNC_WAIT) && xfs_ipincount(ip)) {
xfs_iunpin_nowait(ip);
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
return EAGAIN;
@@ -2893,60 +2891,10 @@ xfs_iflush(
}
/*
- * Decide how buffer will be flushed out. This is done before
- * the call to xfs_iflush_int because this field is zeroed by it.
- */
- if (iip != NULL && iip->ili_format.ilf_fields != 0) {
- /*
- * Flush out the inode buffer according to the directions
- * of the caller. In the cases where the caller has given
- * us a choice choose the non-delwri case. This is because
- * the inode is in the AIL and we need to get it out soon.
- */
- switch (flags) {
- case XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_SYNC:
- flags = 0;
- break;
- case XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC_NOBLOCK:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC:
- flags = INT_ASYNC;
- break;
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI:
- flags = INT_DELWRI;
- break;
- default:
- ASSERT(0);
- flags = 0;
- break;
- }
- } else {
- switch (flags) {
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_SYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI:
- flags = INT_DELWRI;
- break;
- case XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC_NOBLOCK:
- case XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC:
- flags = INT_ASYNC;
- break;
- case XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC:
- flags = 0;
- break;
- default:
- ASSERT(0);
- flags = 0;
- break;
- }
- }
-
- /*
* Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode.
*/
error = xfs_itobp(mp, NULL, ip, &dip, &bp,
- noblock ? XBF_TRYLOCK : XBF_LOCK);
+ (flags & SYNC_WAIT) ? XBF_LOCK : XBF_TRYLOCK);
if (error || !bp) {
xfs_ifunlock(ip);
return error;
@@ -2974,13 +2922,10 @@ xfs_iflush(
if (error)
goto cluster_corrupt_out;
- if (flags & INT_DELWRI) {
- xfs_bdwrite(mp, bp);
- } else if (flags & INT_ASYNC) {
- error = xfs_bawrite(mp, bp);
- } else {
+ if (flags & SYNC_WAIT)
error = xfs_bwrite(mp, bp);
- }
+ else
+ xfs_bdwrite(mp, bp);
return error;
corrupt_out:
@@ -3015,16 +2960,6 @@ xfs_iflush_int(
iip = ip->i_itemp;
mp = ip->i_mount;
-
- /*
- * If the inode isn't dirty, then just release the inode
- * flush lock and do nothing.
- */
- if (xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
- xfs_ifunlock(ip);
- return 0;
- }
-
/* set *dip = inode's place in the buffer */
dip = (xfs_dinode_t *)xfs_buf_offset(bp, ip->i_imap.im_boffset);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index 8b618ea4d69..6c912b02759 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -420,16 +420,6 @@ static inline void xfs_ifunlock(xfs_inode_t *ip)
#define XFS_ILOCK_DEP(flags) (((flags) & XFS_ILOCK_DEP_MASK) >> XFS_ILOCK_SHIFT)
/*
- * Flags for xfs_iflush()
- */
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_SYNC 1
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI_ELSE_ASYNC 2
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_SYNC 3
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC 4
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_DELWRI 5
-#define XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC_NOBLOCK 6
-
-/*
* Flags for xfs_itruncate_start().
*/
#define XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE 0x1
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
index 48ec1c0b23c..207553e8295 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
@@ -866,10 +866,14 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
iip->ili_format.ilf_fields != 0);
/*
- * Write out the inode. The completion routine ('iflush_done') will
- * pull it from the AIL, mark it clean, unlock the flush lock.
+ * Push the inode to it's backing buffer. This will not remove the
+ * inode from the AIL - a further push will be required to trigger a
+ * buffer push. However, this allows all the dirty inodes to be pushed
+ * to the buffer before it is pushed to disk. THe buffer IO completion
+ * will pull th einode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush
+ * lock.
*/
- (void) xfs_iflush(ip, XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC);
+ (void) xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
return;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index 5061149b2cc..6afaaeb2950 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -1468,7 +1468,18 @@ xfs_unmountfs(
* need to force the log first.
*/
xfs_log_force(mp, XFS_LOG_SYNC);
- xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, XFS_IFLUSH_ASYNC);
+
+ /*
+ * Do a delwri reclaim pass first so that as many dirty inodes are
+ * queued up for IO as possible. Then flush the buffers before making
+ * a synchronous path to catch all the remaining inodes are reclaimed.
+ * This makes the reclaim process as quick as possible by avoiding
+ * synchronous writeout and blocking on inodes already in the delwri
+ * state as much as possible.
+ */
+ xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, 0);
+ XFS_bflush(mp->m_ddev_targp);
+ xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp, SYNC_WAIT);
xfs_qm_unmount(mp);