Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression

Fengguang Wu
2016-08-14T08:50:05Z

Hi Linus,

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:03:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 07:27:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't recall having ever seen the mapping tree_lock as a contention
>>> point before, but it's not like I've tried that load either. So it
>>> might be a regression (going back long, I suspect), or just an unusual
>>> load that nobody has traditionally tested much.
>>>
>>> Single-threaded big file write one page at a time, was it?
>>
>> Yup. On a 4 node NUMA system.
>
>Ok, I can't see any real contention on my single-node workstation
>(running ext4 too, so there may be filesystem differences), but I
>guess that shouldn't surprise me. The cacheline bouncing just isn't
>expensive enough when it all stays on-die.
>
>I can see the tree_lock in my profiles (just not very high), and at
>least for ext4 the main caller ssems to be
>__set_page_dirty_nobuffers().
>
>And yes, looking at that, the biggest cost by _far_ inside the
>spinlock seems to be the accounting.
>
>Which doesn't even have to be inside the mapping lock, as far as I can
>tell, and as far as comments go.
>
>So a stupid patch to just move the dirty page accounting to outside
>the spinlock might help a lot.
>
>Does this attached patch help your contention numbers?
>
>Adding a few people who get blamed for account_page_dirtied() and
>inode_attach_wb() just to make sure that nobody expected the
>mapping_lock spinlock to be held when calling account_page_dirtied().
>
>I realize that this has nothing to do with the AIM7 regression (the
>spinlock just isn't high enough in that profile), but your contention
>numbers just aren't right, and updating accounting statistics inside a
>critical spinlock when not needed is just wrong.

I'm testing this patch on top of 9909170065 ("Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.8-2'
of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs").

The BRD (Ram backed block device, drivers/block/brd.c) tests enables
pretty fast IO. And the fsmark-generic-brd-raid.yaml on lkp-hsx02 will
simulate 8 RAID disks on a 4-node NUMA machine.

queue -q vip -t ivb44 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus aim7-fs-1brd.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

queue -q vip -t ivb43 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus fsmark-stress-journal-1hdd.yaml fsmark-stress-journal-1brd.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

queue -q vip -t ivb44 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus fsmark-generic-1brd.yaml dd-write-1hdd.yaml fsmark-generic-1hdd.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

queue -q vip -t lkp-hsx02 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus fsmark-generic-brd-raid.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

queue -q vip -t lkp-hsw-ep4 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus fsmark-1ssd-nvme-small.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

queue -q vip -t lkp-hsw-ep4 -b wfg/account_page_dirtied-linus fsmark-1ssd-nvme-small.yaml -R3 -k 1b5f2eb4a752e1fa7102f37545f92e64fabd0cf8 -k 99091700659f4df965e138b38b4fa26a29b7eade

Thanks,
Fengguang

> fs/buffer.c | 5 ++++-
> fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 5 ++++-
> mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
>index 9c8eb9b6db6a..f79a9d241589 100644
>--- a/fs/buffer.c
>+++ b/fs/buffer.c
>@@ -628,15 +628,18 @@ static void __set_page_dirty(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
> int warn)
> {
> unsigned long flags;
>+ bool account = false;
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */
> WARN_ON_ONCE(warn && !PageUptodate(page));
>- account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
> page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
>+ account = true;
> }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
>+ if (account)
>+ account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> }
>
> /*
>diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
>index 7575cfc3ad15..59169c36765e 100644
>--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
>+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
>@@ -1490,15 +1490,18 @@ xfs_vm_set_page_dirty(
> if (newly_dirty) {
> /* sigh - __set_page_dirty() is static, so copy it here, too */
> unsigned long flags;
>+ bool account = false;
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> if (page->mapping) { /* Race with truncate? */
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!PageUptodate(page));
>- account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
> page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
>+ account = true;
> }
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
>+ if (account)
>+ account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> }
> unlock_page_memcg(page);
> if (newly_dirty)
>diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>index f4cd7d8005c9..9a6a6b99acfe 100644
>--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>@@ -2517,10 +2517,10 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
> spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
> BUG_ON(page_mapping(page) != mapping);
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
>- account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page),
> PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
>+ account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
> unlock_page_memcg(page);
>
> if (mapping->host) {