[PATCH 04/10] repair: limit auto-striding concurrency apprpriately

Dave Chinner
2014-02-27T09:51:37Z

It's possible to have filesystems with hundreds of AGs on systems
with little concurrency and resources. In this case, we can easily
exhaust memory and fail to create threads and have all sorts of
interesting problems.

xfs/250 can cause this to occur, with failures like:

- agno = 707
- agno = 692
fatal error -- cannot create worker threads, error = [11] Resource temporarily unavailable

And this:

- agno = 484
- agno = 782
failed to create prefetch thread: Resource temporarily unavailable

Because it's trying to create more threads than a poor little 512MB
single CPU ia32 box can handle.

So, limit concurrency to a maximum of numcpus * 8 to prevent this.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
---
include/libxfs.h | 1 +
libxfs/init.h | 1 -
repair/xfs_repair.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libxfs.h b/include/libxfs.h
index bb0369f..f688598 100644
--- a/include/libxfs.h
+++ b/include/libxfs.h
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ extern void libxfs_device_close (dev_t);
extern int libxfs_device_alignment (void);
extern void libxfs_report(FILE *);
extern void platform_findsizes(char *path, int fd, long long *sz, int *bsz);
+extern int platform_nproc(void);

/* check or write log footer: specify device, log size in blocks & uuid */
typedef xfs_caddr_t (libxfs_get_block_t)(xfs_caddr_t, int, void *);
diff --git a/libxfs/init.h b/libxfs/init.h
index f0b8cb6..112febb 100644
--- a/libxfs/init.h
+++ b/libxfs/init.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ extern char *platform_findrawpath (char *path);
extern char *platform_findblockpath (char *path);
extern int platform_direct_blockdev (void);
extern int platform_align_blockdev (void);
-extern int platform_nproc(void);
extern unsigned long platform_physmem(void); /* in kilobytes */
extern int platform_has_uuid;

diff --git a/repair/xfs_repair.c b/repair/xfs_repair.c
index bac334f..6327076 100644
--- a/repair/xfs_repair.c
+++ b/repair/xfs_repair.c
@@ -629,13 +629,32 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
* to target these for an increase in thread count. Hence a stride value
* of 15 is chosen to ensure we get at least 2 AGs being scanned at once
* on such filesystems.
+ *
+ * Limit the maximum thread count based on the available CPU power that
+ * is available. If we use too many threads, we might run out of memory
+ * and CPU power before we run out of IO concurrency. We limit to 8
+ * threads/CPU as this is enough threads to saturate a CPU on fast
+ * devices, yet few enough that it will saturate but won't overload slow
+ * devices.
*/
if (!ag_stride && glob_agcount >= 16 && do_prefetch)
ag_stride = 15;

if (ag_stride) {
+ int max_threads = platform_nproc() * 8;
+
thread_count = (glob_agcount + ag_stride - 1) / ag_stride;
- thread_init();
+ while (thread_count > max_threads) {
+ ag_stride *= 2;
+ thread_count = (glob_agcount + ag_stride - 1) /
+ ag_stride;
+ }
+ if (thread_count > 0)
+ thread_init();
+ else {
+ thread_count = 1;
+ ag_stride = 0;
+ }
}

if (ag_stride && report_interval) {