Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: reduce competition among node page writes

[Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>]

Hi Chao,

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:07:49PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> Hi Jaegeuk Changman,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chao Yu [mailto:chao2.yu@samsung.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 6:59 PM
> > To: Jaegeuk Kim; Changman Lee
> > Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> > linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH] f2fs: reduce competition among node page writes
> > 
> > We do not need to block on ->node_write among different node page writers e.g.
> > fsync/flush, unless we have a node page writer from write_checkpoint.
> > So it's better use rw_semaphore instead of mutex type for ->node_write to
> > promote performance.
> 
> If you could have time to help explaining the problem of this patch, I will be
> appreciated for that.

I have no clue. Except checkpoint, I don't know why need to block to
write node page.
Do you have any problem when you test with this patch?

> 
> Another question is what is ->writepages in sbi used for? I'm not quite clear.
> 

I remember it is for writing data pages per thread as much as possible.
When multi-threads write some files simultaneously, multi-threads contended with
each other to allocate a block. So block allocation was interleaved
across threads. It makes fragmentation of file.

Thanks,

> Thanks,
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c |    6 +++---
> >  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h       |    2 +-
> >  fs/f2fs/node.c       |    4 ++--
> >  fs/f2fs/super.c      |    2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > index 0b4710c..eec406b 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > @@ -714,10 +714,10 @@ retry_flush_dents:
> >  	 * until finishing nat/sit flush.
> >  	 */
> >  retry_flush_nodes:
> > -	mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
> > +	down_write(&sbi->node_write);
> > 
> >  	if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES)) {
> > -		mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
> > +		up_write(&sbi->node_write);
> >  		sync_node_pages(sbi, 0, &wbc);
> >  		goto retry_flush_nodes;
> >  	}
> > @@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ retry_flush_nodes:
> > 
> >  static void unblock_operations(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> >  {
> > -	mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
> > +	up_write(&sbi->node_write);
> >  	f2fs_unlock_all(sbi);
> >  }
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > index ae3b4ac..ca30b5a 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
> >  	struct inode *meta_inode;		/* cache meta blocks */
> >  	struct mutex cp_mutex;			/* checkpoint procedure lock */
> >  	struct rw_semaphore cp_rwsem;		/* blocking FS operations */
> > -	struct mutex node_write;		/* locking node writes */
> > +	struct rw_semaphore node_write;		/* locking node writes */
> >  	struct mutex writepages;		/* mutex for writepages() */
> >  	bool por_doing;				/* recovery is doing or not */
> >  	wait_queue_head_t cp_wait;
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
> > index a90f51d..7b5b5de 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
> > @@ -1231,12 +1231,12 @@ static int f2fs_write_node_page(struct page *page,
> >  	if (wbc->for_reclaim)
> >  		goto redirty_out;
> > 
> > -	mutex_lock(&sbi->node_write);
> > +	down_read(&sbi->node_write);
> >  	set_page_writeback(page);
> >  	write_node_page(sbi, page, &fio, nid, ni.blk_addr, &new_addr);
> >  	set_node_addr(sbi, &ni, new_addr, is_fsync_dnode(page));
> >  	dec_page_count(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES);
> > -	mutex_unlock(&sbi->node_write);
> > +	up_read(&sbi->node_write);
> >  	unlock_page(page);
> >  	return 0;
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > index 8f96d93..bed9413 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ static int f2fs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
> >  	mutex_init(&sbi->gc_mutex);
> >  	mutex_init(&sbi->writepages);
> >  	mutex_init(&sbi->cp_mutex);
> > -	mutex_init(&sbi->node_write);
> > +	init_rwsem(&sbi->node_write);
> >  	sbi->por_doing = false;
> >  	spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock);
> > 
> > --
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> > 
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