Re: [PATCH] buffer: Associate the meta bio with blkg from buffer page

Yu Kuai
2024-08-31T06:11:16Z

Hi, Tejun!

在 2024/08/31 3:37, Tejun Heo 写道:
> Hello, Haifeng.
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 11:32:24AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> ...
>> The filesystem is ext4(ordered). The meta data can be written out by
>> writeback, but if there are too many dirty pages, we had to do
>> checkpoint to write out the meta data in current thread context.
>>
>> In this case, the blkg of thread1 has set io.max, so the j_checkpoint_mutex
>> can't be released and many threads must wait for it. However, the blkg from
>> buffer page didn' set any io policy. Therefore, for the meta buffer head,
>> we can associate the bio with blkg from the buffer page instead of current
>> thread context.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>
>> ---
>> fs/buffer.c | 11 +++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
>> index e55ad471c530..a7889f258d0d 100644
>> --- a/fs/buffer.c
>> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
>> @@ -2819,6 +2819,17 @@ static void submit_bh_wbc(blk_opf_t opf, struct buffer_head *bh,
>> if (wbc) {
>> wbc_init_bio(wbc, bio);
>> wbc_account_cgroup_owner(wbc, bh->b_page, bh->b_size);
>> + } else if (buffer_meta(bh)) {
>> + struct folio *folio;
>> + struct cgroup_subsys_state *memcg_css, *blkcg_css;
>> +
>> + folio = page_folio(bh->b_page);
>> + memcg_css = mem_cgroup_css_from_folio(folio);
>> + if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) &&
>> + cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(io_cgrp_subsys)) {
>> + blkcg_css = cgroup_e_css(memcg_css->cgroup, &io_cgrp_subsys);
>> + bio_associate_blkg_from_css(bio, blkcg_css);
>
> I think the right way to do it is marking the bio with REQ_META and
> implement forced charging in blk-throtl similar to blk-iocost.

This is the exact thing I did in the code I attached in the other
thread, do you take a look?

https://lore.kernel.org/all/97fc38e6-a226-5e22-efc2-4405beb6d75b@huaweicloud.com/

Thanks,
Kuai
>
> Thanks.
>