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From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/13] writeback: introduce super_block.s_more_io_wait
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:36:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <400401291.24198@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20080115124759.398587485@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080115123637.518924046@mail.ustc.edu.cn

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Introduce super_block.s_more_io_wait to park inodes that for some reason cannot
be synced immediately. They will be revisited in the next s_io enqueue time(<=5s).

The new data flow after this patchset:

s_dirty --> s_io --> s_more_io/s_more_io_wait --+
             ^                                  |
	     |                                  |
	     +----------------------------------+

- to fill s_io:
		s_more_io +
		s_dirty(expired) +
		s_more_io_wait
				---> s_io
- to drain s_io:
		s_io -+--> clean inodes goto inode_in_use/inode_unused
		      |
		      +--> s_more_io
		      |
		      +--> s_more_io_wait

Obviously there're no ordering or starvation problems in the queues:
- s_dirty is now a strict FIFO queue
- inode.dirtied_when is only set when made dirty
- once exipired, the dirty inode will stay in s_*io* queues until made clean
- the dirty inodes in s_*io* will be revisted in order, hence small files won't
  be starved by big dirty files.

Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
---
 fs/fs-writeback.c  |   16 +++++++++++++---
 fs/super.c         |    1 +
 include/linux/fs.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- linux-mm.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ linux-mm/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -172,6 +172,14 @@ static void requeue_io(struct inode *ino
 	list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_more_io);
 }
 
+/*
+ * The inode should be retried after _sleeping_ for a while.
+ */
+static void requeue_io_wait(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	list_move(&inode->i_list, &inode->i_sb->s_more_io_wait);
+}
+
 static void inode_sync_complete(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	/*
@@ -206,13 +214,15 @@ static void queue_io(struct super_block 
 {
 	list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io, sb->s_io.prev);
 	move_expired_inodes(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io, older_than_this);
+	list_splice_init(&sb->s_more_io_wait, sb->s_io.prev);
 }
 
 int sb_has_dirty_inodes(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	return !list_empty(&sb->s_dirty) ||
-	       !list_empty(&sb->s_io) ||
-	       !list_empty(&sb->s_more_io);
+	return !list_empty(&sb->s_dirty)   ||
+	       !list_empty(&sb->s_io)      ||
+	       !list_empty(&sb->s_more_io) ||
+	       !list_empty(&sb->s_more_io_wait);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sb_has_dirty_inodes);
 
--- linux-mm.orig/fs/super.c
+++ linux-mm/fs/super.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(s
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dirty);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_io);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_more_io);
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_more_io_wait);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_files);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_instances);
 		INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
--- linux-mm.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux-mm/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1011,6 +1011,7 @@ struct super_block {
 	struct list_head	s_dirty;	/* dirty inodes */
 	struct list_head	s_io;		/* parked for writeback */
 	struct list_head	s_more_io;	/* parked for more writeback */
+	struct list_head	s_more_io_wait;	/* parked for sleep-then-retry */
 	struct hlist_head	s_anon;		/* anonymous dentries for (nfs) exporting */
 	struct list_head	s_files;
 

-- 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-15 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15 12:36 [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2 Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 18:33   ` Michael Rubin
2008-01-16  2:18     ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16  2:18       ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-18  7:51   ` Michael Rubin
2008-01-18  8:27     ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-18  8:27       ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 01/13] writeback: revert 2e6883bdf49abd0e7f0d9b6297fc3be7ebb2250b Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 02/13] writeback: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for truncated page in block_write_full_page() Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 03/13] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2008-01-15 12:36   ` [PATCH 04/13] writeback: introduce super_block.s_more_io_wait Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 05/13] writeback: merge duplicate code into writeback_some_pages() Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 06/13] writeback: defer writeback on not-all-pages-written Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 07/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked inode Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 08/13] writeback: defer writeback on locked buffers Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 09/13] writeback: requeue_io() on redirtied inode Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-16  8:13   ` David Chinner
2008-01-17  4:22     ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-17  4:22       ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 10/13] writeback: introduce queue_dirty() Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 11/13] writeback: queue_dirty() on memory-backed bdi Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 12/13] writeback: remove redirty_tail() Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36 ` [PATCH 13/13] writeback: cleanup __sync_single_inode() Fengguang Wu
2008-01-15 12:36   ` Fengguang Wu

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