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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: [PATCH 18/34] xfs: reduce the number of AIL push wakeups
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:29:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292916570-25015-19-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292916570-25015-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

The xfaild often tries to rest to wait for congestion to pass of for
IO to complete, but is regularly woken in tail-pushing situations.
In severe cases, the xfsaild is getting woken tens of thousands of
times a second. Reduce the number needless wakeups by only waking
the xfsaild if the new target is larger than the old one. Further
make short sleeps uninterruptible as they occur when the xfsaild has
decided it needs to back off to allow some IO to complete and being
woken early is counter-productive.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index abcda07..6a12da3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -834,8 +834,11 @@ xfsaild_wakeup(
 	struct xfs_ail		*ailp,
 	xfs_lsn_t		threshold_lsn)
 {
-	ailp->xa_target = threshold_lsn;
-	wake_up_process(ailp->xa_task);
+	/* only ever move the target forwards */
+	if (XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->xa_target) > 0) {
+		ailp->xa_target = threshold_lsn;
+		wake_up_process(ailp->xa_task);
+	}
 }
 
 STATIC int
@@ -847,8 +850,17 @@ xfsaild(
 	long		tout = 0; /* milliseconds */
 
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-		schedule_timeout_interruptible(tout ?
-				msecs_to_jiffies(tout) : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
+		/*
+		 * for short sleeps indicating congestion, don't allow us to
+		 * get woken early. Otherwise all we do is bang on the AIL lock
+		 * without making progress.
+		 */
+		if (tout && tout <= 20)
+			__set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE);
+		else
+			__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		schedule_timeout(tout ?
+				 msecs_to_jiffies(tout) : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT);
 
 		/* swsusp */
 		try_to_freeze();
-- 
1.7.2.3

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-21  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-21  7:28 [PATCH 00/34] xfs: scalability patchset for 2.6.38 Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:28 ` [PATCH 01/34] xfs: provide a inode iolock lockdep class Dave Chinner
2010-12-21 15:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21  7:28 ` [PATCH 02/34] xfs: use KM_NOFS for allocations during attribute list operations Dave Chinner
2010-12-21 15:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21  7:28 ` [PATCH 03/34] lib: percpu counter add unless less than functionality Dave Chinner
2010-12-22  2:20   ` Alex Elder
2010-12-22  3:46     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 04/34] xfs: use generic per-cpu counter infrastructure Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 05/34] xfs: demultiplex xfs_icsb_modify_counters() Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 06/34] xfs: dynamic speculative EOF preallocation Dave Chinner
2010-12-21 15:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21 21:42     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-21 23:44       ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-22  2:29         ` Alex Elder
2010-12-29 12:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-27 14:57   ` Alex Elder
2010-12-27 15:00   ` Alex Elder
2011-01-06 18:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 07/34] xfs: don't truncate prealloc from frequently accessed inodes Dave Chinner
2010-12-21 16:45   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 08/34] xfs: rcu free inodes Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 09/34] xfs: convert inode cache lookups to use RCU locking Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 10/34] xfs: convert pag_ici_lock to a spin lock Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 11/34] xfs: convert xfsbud shrinker to a per-buftarg shrinker Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 12/34] xfs: add a lru to the XFS buffer cache Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 13/34] xfs: connect up buffer reclaim priority hooks Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 14/34] xfs: fix EFI transaction cancellation Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 15/34] xfs: Pull EFI/EFD handling out from under the AIL lock Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 16/34] xfs: clean up xfs_ail_delete() Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 17/34] xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commit Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 19/34] xfs: consume iodone callback items on buffers as they are processed Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 20/34] xfs: remove all the inodes on a buffer from the AIL in bulk Dave Chinner
2010-12-22  2:20   ` Alex Elder
2010-12-22  3:49     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 22/34] xfs: use AIL bulk delete function to implement single delete Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 23/34] xfs: convert log grant ticket queues to list heads Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 24/34] xfs: fact out common grant head/log tail verification code Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 25/34] xfs: rework log grant space calculations Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 26/34] xfs: combine grant heads into a single 64 bit integer Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 27/34] xfs: use wait queues directly for the log wait queues Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 28/34] xfs: make AIL tail pushing independent of the grant lock Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 29/34] xfs: convert l_last_sync_lsn to an atomic variable Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 30/34] xfs: convert l_tail_lsn " Dave Chinner
2010-12-29 12:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-29 15:49   ` Alex Elder
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 31/34] xfs: convert log grant heads to atomic variables Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 32/34] xfs: introduce new locks for the log grant ticket wait queues Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 33/34] xfs: convert grant head manipulations to lockless algorithm Dave Chinner
2010-12-21  7:29 ` [PATCH 34/34] xfs: kill useless spinlock_destroy macro Dave Chinner
2010-12-23  1:15 ` [PATCH 00/34] xfs: scalability patchset for 2.6.38 Dave Chinner

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