Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: avoid congestion_wait when do_checkpoint for better performance

[Yuan Zhong <yuan.mark.zhong@samsung.com>]

Hi Gu,

> Hi Yuan,
> On 10/08/2013 04:30 PM, Yuan Zhong wrote:

> > Previously, do_checkpoint() will call congestion_wait() for waiting the pages (previous submitted node/meta/data pages) to be written back.
> > Because congestion_wait() will set a regular period (e.g. HZ / 50 ) for waiting.
> > For this reason, there is a situation that after the pages have been written back, 
> > but the checkpoint thread still wait for congestion_wait to exit.

> How do you confirm this issue? 

  I traced the execution path.
  In f2fs_end_io_write, dec_page_count(p->sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK) will be called.
  And I found that, when pages of F2FS_WRITEBACK has been zero, but
  checkpoint thread still congestion_wait for pages of F2FS_WRITEBACK to be zero.	
  So, I think this point could be improved.
  And I wrote a simple test case and tested on Micro-SD card, the steps as following:
      (a) create a fixed-size file (4KB)
      (b) go on to sync the file 
      (c) go back to step #a (fixed numbers of cycling:1024)	
   The results indicated that the execution time is reduced greatly by using this patch.  


> I suspect that the block-core does not have a wake-up mechanism
> when the back device is uncongested.


  Yes, you are right.
  So I wake up the checkpoint thread by myself, when pages of F2FS_WRITEBACK to be zero.
  In f2fs_end_io_write, f2fs_writeback_wait is called.
  you cloud find this code in my patch. 


> > This is a problem here, especially, when sync a large number of small files or dirs.
> > In order to avoid this, a wait_list is introduced, 
> > the checkpoint thread will be dropped into the wait_list if the pages have not been written back, 
> > and will be waked up by contrast.

> Please pay some attention to the mail form, this mail is out of format in my mail client.

> Regards,
> Gu

Regards,
Yuan

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Yuan Zhong <yuan.mark.zhong@samsung.com>
> > ---  
> >  fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c |    3 +--
> >  fs/f2fs/f2fs.h       |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  fs/f2fs/segment.c    |    1 +
> >  fs/f2fs/super.c      |    1 +
> >  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > index ca39442..5d69ae0 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> > @@ -758,8 +758,7 @@ static void do_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool is_umount)
> >  	f2fs_put_page(cp_page, 1);
> >  
> >  	/* wait for previous submitted node/meta pages writeback */
> > -	while (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK))
> > -		congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ / 50);
> > +	f2fs_writeback_wait(sbi);
> >  
> >  	filemap_fdatawait_range(sbi->node_inode->i_mapping, 0, LONG_MAX);
> >  	filemap_fdatawait_range(sbi->meta_inode->i_mapping, 0, LONG_MAX);
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > index 7fd99d8..4b0d70e 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
> > @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
> >  #include <linux/crc32.h>
> >  #include <linux/magic.h>
> >  #include <linux/kobject.h>
> > +#include <linux/wait.h>
> > +#include <linux/sched.h>
> >  
> >  /*
> >   * For mount options
> > @@ -368,6 +370,7 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
> >  	struct mutex fs_lock[NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS];	/* blocking FS operations */
> >  	struct mutex node_write;		/* locking node writes */
> >  	struct mutex writepages;		/* mutex for writepages() */
> > +	wait_queue_head_t writeback_wqh;	/* wait_queue for writeback */
> >  	unsigned char next_lock_num;		/* round-robin global locks */
> >  	int por_doing;				/* recovery is doing or not */
> >  	int on_build_free_nids;			/* build_free_nids is doing */
> > @@ -961,6 +964,22 @@ static inline int f2fs_readonly(struct super_block *sb)
> >  	return sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static inline void f2fs_writeback_wait(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> > +{
> > +	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> > +
> > +	prepare_to_wait(&sbi->writeback_wqh, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > +	if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK))
> > +		io_schedule();
> > +	finish_wait(&sbi->writeback_wqh, &wait);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void f2fs_writeback_wake(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
> > +{
> > +	if (!get_pages(sbi, F2FS_WRITEBACK))
> > +		wake_up_all(&sbi->writeback_wqh);
> > +}
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * file.c
> >   */
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > index bd79bbe..0708aa9 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
> > @@ -597,6 +597,7 @@ static void f2fs_end_io_write(struct bio *bio, int err)
> >  
> >  	if (p->is_sync)
> >  		complete(p->wait);
> > +	f2fs_writeback_wake(p->sbi);
> >  	kfree(p);
> >  	bio_put(bio);
> >  }
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > index 094ccc6..3ac6d85 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
> > @@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ 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);
> > +	init_waitqueue_head(&sbi->writeback_wqh);
> >  	for (i = 0; i < NR_GLOBAL_LOCKS; i++)
> >  		mutex_init(&sbi->fs_lock[i]);
> >  	mutex_init(&sbi->node_write);
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