From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o193tlmq182551 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:55:47 -0600 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 33C77138A720 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail12.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.97]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id tJy2r5H0OjyOXaht for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from discord (unverified [121.44.103.80]) by mail.internode.on.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 13074392-1927428 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:26:57 +1030 (CDT) Received: from disturbed ([192.168.1.9]) by discord with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NehDb-0000Nz-Tk for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:56:55 +1100 Received: from dave by disturbed with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NehDR-0002S9-7Q for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:56:45 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: [PATCH 0/9] Delayed write metadata writeback V5 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:56:33 +1100 Message-Id: <1265687802-23043-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com While I started with killing async inode writeback, the series has grown. It's not really limited to inode writeback - it touches dquot flushing, changes the way the AIL pushes on buffers, adds xfsbufd sorting for delayed write buffers, adds a real non-blocking mode to inode reclaim and avoids physical inode writeback from the VFS while fixing bugs in handling delayed write inodes. Hence this is more about enabling efficient delayed write metadata than it is able killing async inode writeback. The idea behind this series is to make metadata buffers get written from xfsbufd via the delayed write queue rather than being issued asynchronously from all over the place. To do this, async buffer writeback is almost entirely removed from XFS, replaced instead by delayed writes and a method to expedite flushing of delayed write buffers when required. The result of funnelling all the buffer IO into a single place is that we can more tightly control and therefore optimise the submission of metadata IO. Aggregating the buffers before dispatch allows much better sort efficiency of the buffers as the sort window is not limited to the size of the elevator congestion hysteresis limit. Hence we can approach 100% merge effeciency on large numbers of buffers when dispatched for IO and greatly reduce the amount of seeking metadata writeback causes. The major change is to the inode flushing and reclaim code. Delayed write inodes hold the flush lock for much longer than for async writeback, and hence blocking on the flush lock can cause extremely long latencies without other mechanisms to expedite the release of the flush locks. To prevent needing to flush inodes immediately, all operations are done non-blocking unless synchronous. This required a significant rework of the inode reclaim code, but it greatly simplified other pieces of code (e.g. log item pushing). Version 5 - drop the fsync changes to xfs_fs_write_inode() and the associated locking changes, replace them with a targeted inode logging function from Christoph Hellwig to fix a performance regression on fs_mark -S4 workloads on an SSD. Version 4 - rework inode reclaim checks for better legibility - add warning to reclaim code when delwri flush errors occur - kill XFS_ITEM_FLUSHING now it is not used - clean up sync_mode flags being pushed into xfs_iflush() - kill the now unused xfs_bawrite() function - include Christoph's fsync cache flush fix - rework the inode locking and call to xfs_fsync() when doing synchronous inode writes to close races between the fsync and the background delwri flush afterwards. Version 3 - rework inode reclaim to: - separate it from xfs_iflush return values - provide a non-blocking mode for background operation - apply delwri buffer promotion tricks to dquot flushing - kill unneeded dquot flushing flags, similar to inode flushing flag removal - fix sync inode flush bug when trying to flush delwri inodes Version 2: - use generic list sort function - when unmounting, push the delwri buffers first, then do sync inode reclaim so that reclaim doesn't block for 15 seconds waiting for delwri inode buffers to be aged and written before the inodes can be reclaimed. Alex, the patch series is available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/dgc/xfs for-2.6.34 Christoph Hellwig (2): xfs: remove invalid barrier optimization from xfs_fsync xfs: log changed inodes instead of writing them synchronously Dave Chinner (7): xfs: Make inode reclaim states explicit xfs: Use delayed write for inodes rather than async V2 xfs: Don't issue buffer IO direct from AIL push V2 xfs: Sort delayed write buffers before dispatch xfs: Use delay write promotion for dquot flushing xfs: kill the unused XFS_QMOPT_* flush flags V2 xfs: kill xfs_bawrite fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h | 3 +- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.h | 1 + fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c | 38 +++++------- fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot_item.c | 87 ++++---------------------- fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot_item.h | 4 - fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c | 14 ++--- fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 64 ++++++++++--------- fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 86 ++------------------------ fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 11 +--- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 108 +++++++------------------------- fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.h | 6 -- fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 13 ++++- fs/xfs/xfs_quota.h | 8 +-- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 3 +- fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c | 13 ++-- fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 12 +--- 19 files changed, 410 insertions(+), 445 deletions(-) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs