Re: [PATCH 2/4] writeback: allow for dirty metadata accounting

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Wed 08-11-17 14:00:58, Josef Bacik wrote:
> From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
> 
> Provide a mechanism for file systems to indicate how much dirty metadata they
> are holding.  This introduces a few things
> 
> 1) Zone stats for dirty metadata, which is the same as the NR_FILE_DIRTY.
> 2) WB stat for dirty metadata.  This way we know if we need to try and call into
> the file system to write out metadata.  This could potentially be used in the
> future to make balancing of dirty pages smarter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
...
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 13d711dd8776..0281abd62e87 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -3827,7 +3827,8 @@ static unsigned long node_pagecache_reclaimable(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>  
>  	/* If we can't clean pages, remove dirty pages from consideration */
>  	if (!(node_reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_WRITE))
> -		delta += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> +		delta += node_page_state(pgdat, NR_FILE_DIRTY) +
> +			node_page_state(pgdat, NR_METADATA_DIRTY);
>  
>  	/* Watch for any possible underflows due to delta */
>  	if (unlikely(delta > nr_pagecache_reclaimable))

Do you expect your metadata pages to be accounted in NR_FILE_PAGES?
Otherwise this doesn't make sense. And even if they would, this function is
about kswapd / direct page reclaim and I don't think you've added smarts
there to writeout metadata. So if your metadata pages are going to show up
in NR_FILE_PAGES, you need to subtract NR_METADATA_DIRTY from reclaimable
pages always. It would be good to see btrfs counterpart to these patches so
that we can answer questions like this easily...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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