From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:45:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111010014509.GT3159@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111006183549.770414484@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently we have a few issues with the way the workqueue code is used to
> implement AIL pushing:
>
> - it accidentally uses the same workqueue as the syncer action, and thus
> can be prevented from running if there are enough sync actions active
> in the system.
> - it doesn't use the HIGHPRI flag to queue at the head of the queue of
> work items
>
> At this point I'm not confident enough in getting all the workqueue flags and
> tweaks right to provide a perfectly reliable execution context for AIL
> pushing, which is the most important piece in XFS to make forward progress
> when the log fills.
>
> Revert back to use a kthread per filesystem which fixes all the above issues
> at the cost of having a task struct and stack around for each mounted
> filesystem. In addition this also gives us much better ways to diagnose
> any issues involving hung AIL pushing and removes a small amount of code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
> Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
I'd much prefer to fix the problems with the workqueue usage than
revert back to using a thread, but seeing as I cannot reproduce the
hangs I can't really track down whatever problem there is. So,
a bit reluctantly:
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 18:32 [PATCH 0/4] fix AIL pushing under heavy concurrent metadata loads Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-06 18:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: do not update xa_last_pushed_lsn for locked items Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-07 22:18 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:37 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-06 18:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: force the log if we encounter pinned buffers in .iop_pushbuf Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-07 22:18 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:39 ` Dave Chinner
2011-10-06 18:33 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-07 22:18 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:45 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-10-10 5:55 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2011-10-10 6:06 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-10-10 13:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-10 18:37 ` Tejun Heo
2011-10-19 11:16 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-10-19 11:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-19 13:10 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-10-06 18:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: add AIL pushing tracepoints Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-07 22:18 ` Alex Elder
2011-10-10 1:45 ` Dave Chinner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-11 15:14 [PATCH 0/4] fix AIL pushing under heavy concurrent metadata loads V2 Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-11 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing Christoph Hellwig
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