From: Hiroshi Nishida <nishidafmly@gmail.com>
To: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>, Yu Kuai <yukuai@fygo.io>
Cc: Li Nan <magiclinan@didiglobal.com>, Xiao Ni <xiao@kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hiroshi Nishida <nishidafmly@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] md/raid5: size stripe-cache hash locks from the CPU count
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:23:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260710132346.7295-3-nishidafmly@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710132346.7295-1-nishidafmly@gmail.com>
The stripe cache hash is striped across NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS spinlocks
(see stripe_hash_locks_hash()). The count has been a fixed 8 since the
per-hash locking was introduced. On many-core servers 8 buckets is
small: stripe cache lookup and allocation contend on the same few locks
once the CPU count greatly exceeds the bucket count. Simply raising the
compile-time constant, however, would grow three per-array arrays in
struct r5conf (hash_locks, inactive_list, temp_inactive_list) for every
array unconditionally, spending memory on small systems that see no
benefit from the extra buckets.
Make the count a per-array value, sized when the array is created and
selected by a new nr_stripe_hash_locks module parameter:
- 0 (the default) auto-sizes the count from the online CPU count,
rounded up to a power of two and clamped to the range
[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT (8), NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX (32)].
A machine with 8 or fewer CPUs therefore keeps the historical 8 and
the historical memory footprint; wider machines stripe the locks
further with no user action and no recompile.
- A non-zero value overrides the heuristic (still rounded up to a
power of two and capped at 32), for administrators who want to pin
it.
- The maximum is 32 because raid5_quiesce() takes every hash lock plus
device_lock at once via lock_all_device_hash_locks_irq(); that holds
nr_hash_locks + 1 locks simultaneously, which must stay below
MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) so the held-lock array does not overflow when
lockdep is enabled.
- The three per-array arrays are now sized with kcalloc(nr_hash_locks)
when the array is created, so a system that ends up with 8 locks uses
no more memory than before. The embedded and on-stack
temp_inactive_list arrays (r5worker, raid5_plug_cb) are sized to the
NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX upper bound; only nr_hash_locks entries are
ever initialised or used.
The value is resolved when an array is created, so existing arrays keep
their lock count and a value written later applies only to arrays
created afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Nishida <nishidafmly@gmail.com>
---
drivers/md/raid5-cache.c | 2 +-
drivers/md/raid5.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
drivers/md/raid5.h | 31 ++++++++++-----
3 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 7b7546bfa21f..9cf58a13250a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
/* start flush with these full stripes */
#define R5C_FULL_STRIPE_FLUSH_BATCH(conf) (conf->max_nr_stripes / 4)
/* reclaim stripes in groups */
-#define R5C_RECLAIM_STRIPE_GROUP (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS * 2)
+#define R5C_RECLAIM_STRIPE_GROUP (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT * 2)
/*
* We only need 2 bios per I/O unit to make progress, but ensure we
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index d8807114a693..7f72981121fd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@
#define RAID5_MAX_REQ_STRIPES 256
+static unsigned int nr_stripe_hash_locks;
+module_param(nr_stripe_hash_locks, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(nr_stripe_hash_locks,
+ "Number of spinlocks the stripe cache hash is striped across, rounded up to a power of two and capped at 32. 0 (the default) auto-sizes it from the online CPU count (never below 8); a non-zero value overrides that. Larger values reduce lock contention on many-core systems at a small per-array memory cost. Read when an array is created");
+
static bool devices_handle_discard_safely = false;
module_param(devices_handle_discard_safely, bool, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(devices_handle_discard_safely,
@@ -83,7 +88,7 @@ static inline struct hlist_head *stripe_hash(struct r5conf *conf, sector_t sect)
static inline int stripe_hash_locks_hash(struct r5conf *conf, sector_t sect)
{
- return (sect >> RAID5_STRIPE_SHIFT(conf)) & STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MASK;
+ return (sect >> RAID5_STRIPE_SHIFT(conf)) & conf->hash_locks_mask;
}
static inline void lock_device_hash_lock(struct r5conf *conf, int hash)
@@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ static inline void lock_all_device_hash_locks_irq(struct r5conf *conf)
{
int i;
spin_lock_irq(conf->hash_locks);
- for (i = 1; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 1; i < conf->nr_hash_locks; i++)
spin_lock_nest_lock(conf->hash_locks + i, conf->hash_locks);
spin_lock(&conf->device_lock);
}
@@ -115,7 +120,7 @@ static inline void unlock_all_device_hash_locks_irq(struct r5conf *conf)
{
int i;
spin_unlock(&conf->device_lock);
- for (i = NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS - 1; i; i--)
+ for (i = conf->nr_hash_locks - 1; i; i--)
spin_unlock(conf->hash_locks + i);
spin_unlock_irq(conf->hash_locks);
}
@@ -317,7 +322,7 @@ static void __release_stripe(struct r5conf *conf, struct stripe_head *sh,
}
/*
- * @hash could be NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS, then we have a list of inactive_list
+ * @hash could be conf->nr_hash_locks, then we have a list of inactive_list
*
* Be careful: Only one task can add/delete stripes from temp_inactive_list at
* given time. Adding stripes only takes device lock, while deleting stripes
@@ -331,9 +336,9 @@ static void release_inactive_stripe_list(struct r5conf *conf,
bool do_wakeup = false;
unsigned long flags;
- if (hash == NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS) {
- size = NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS;
- hash = NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS - 1;
+ if (hash == conf->nr_hash_locks) {
+ size = conf->nr_hash_locks;
+ hash = conf->nr_hash_locks - 1;
} else
size = 1;
while (size) {
@@ -2408,7 +2413,7 @@ static int grow_one_stripe(struct r5conf *conf, gfp_t gfp)
return 0;
}
sh->hash_lock_index =
- conf->max_nr_stripes % NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS;
+ conf->max_nr_stripes % conf->nr_hash_locks;
/* we just created an active stripe so... */
atomic_inc(&conf->active_stripes);
@@ -2612,8 +2617,8 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf *conf, int newsize)
nsh->hash_lock_index = hash;
free_stripe(conf->slab_cache, osh);
cnt++;
- if (cnt >= conf->max_nr_stripes / NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS +
- !!((conf->max_nr_stripes % NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS) > hash)) {
+ if (cnt >= conf->max_nr_stripes / conf->nr_hash_locks +
+ !!((conf->max_nr_stripes % conf->nr_hash_locks) > hash)) {
hash++;
cnt = 0;
}
@@ -2697,7 +2702,7 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf *conf, int newsize)
static int drop_one_stripe(struct r5conf *conf)
{
struct stripe_head *sh;
- int hash = (conf->max_nr_stripes - 1) & STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MASK;
+ int hash = (conf->max_nr_stripes - 1) & conf->hash_locks_mask;
spin_lock_irq(conf->hash_locks + hash);
sh = get_free_stripe(conf, hash);
@@ -5638,7 +5643,7 @@ static struct stripe_head *__get_priority_stripe(struct r5conf *conf, int group)
struct raid5_plug_cb {
struct blk_plug_cb cb;
struct list_head list;
- struct list_head temp_inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS];
+ struct list_head temp_inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX];
};
static void raid5_unplug(struct blk_plug_cb *blk_cb, bool from_schedule)
@@ -5674,7 +5679,7 @@ static void raid5_unplug(struct blk_plug_cb *blk_cb, bool from_schedule)
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
}
release_inactive_stripe_list(conf, cb->temp_inactive_list,
- NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS);
+ conf->nr_hash_locks);
if (!mddev_is_dm(mddev))
trace_block_unplug(mddev->gendisk->queue, cnt, !from_schedule);
kfree(cb);
@@ -5698,7 +5703,7 @@ static void release_stripe_plug(struct mddev *mddev,
if (cb->list.next == NULL) {
int i;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cb->list);
- for (i = 0; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX; i++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(cb->temp_inactive_list + i);
}
@@ -6732,10 +6737,10 @@ static int handle_active_stripes(struct r5conf *conf, int group,
batch[batch_size++] = sh;
if (batch_size == 0) {
- for (i = 0; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < conf->nr_hash_locks; i++)
if (!list_empty(temp_inactive_list + i))
break;
- if (i == NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS) {
+ if (i == conf->nr_hash_locks) {
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
log_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf);
spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
@@ -6746,7 +6751,7 @@ static int handle_active_stripes(struct r5conf *conf, int group,
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
release_inactive_stripe_list(conf, temp_inactive_list,
- NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS);
+ conf->nr_hash_locks);
r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log);
if (release_inactive) {
@@ -7353,7 +7358,7 @@ static int alloc_thread_groups(struct r5conf *conf, int cnt, int *group_cnt,
worker->group = group;
INIT_WORK(&worker->work, raid5_do_work);
- for (k = 0; k < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; k++)
+ for (k = 0; k < conf->nr_hash_locks; k++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(worker->temp_inactive_list + k);
}
}
@@ -7448,6 +7453,9 @@ static void free_conf(struct r5conf *conf)
kfree(conf->disks);
bioset_exit(&conf->bio_split);
kfree(conf->stripe_hashtbl);
+ kfree(conf->hash_locks);
+ kfree(conf->inactive_list);
+ kfree(conf->temp_inactive_list);
kfree(conf->pending_data);
mempool_destroy(conf->ctx_pool);
@@ -7565,6 +7573,38 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
if (conf == NULL)
goto abort;
+ /*
+ * Size the stripe cache hash-lock striping per array. The
+ * nr_stripe_hash_locks module parameter selects the count: 0 (the
+ * default) auto-sizes it from the online CPU count so busier machines
+ * stripe the locks wider, while a non-zero value overrides that. The
+ * result is rounded up to a power of two (the hash uses it as a
+ * bitmask) and capped at NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX; the auto path also
+ * keeps at least the historical NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT so small
+ * systems are unchanged. Allocating per array means an untuned system
+ * uses no more memory than before.
+ */
+ if (nr_stripe_hash_locks == 0)
+ conf->nr_hash_locks = clamp_t(unsigned int,
+ roundup_pow_of_two(num_online_cpus()),
+ NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT,
+ NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX);
+ else
+ conf->nr_hash_locks = roundup_pow_of_two(
+ min_t(unsigned int, nr_stripe_hash_locks,
+ NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX));
+ conf->hash_locks_mask = conf->nr_hash_locks - 1;
+ conf->hash_locks = kcalloc(conf->nr_hash_locks,
+ sizeof(*conf->hash_locks), GFP_KERNEL);
+ conf->inactive_list = kcalloc(conf->nr_hash_locks,
+ sizeof(*conf->inactive_list), GFP_KERNEL);
+ conf->temp_inactive_list = kcalloc(conf->nr_hash_locks,
+ sizeof(*conf->temp_inactive_list),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!conf->hash_locks || !conf->inactive_list ||
+ !conf->temp_inactive_list)
+ goto abort;
+
#if PAGE_SIZE != DEFAULT_STRIPE_SIZE
conf->stripe_size = DEFAULT_STRIPE_SIZE;
conf->stripe_shift = ilog2(DEFAULT_STRIPE_SIZE) - 9;
@@ -7646,13 +7686,13 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
* lockdep that we know what we are doing.
*/
spin_lock_init(conf->hash_locks);
- for (i = 1; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 1; i < conf->nr_hash_locks; i++)
spin_lock_init(conf->hash_locks + i);
- for (i = 0; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < conf->nr_hash_locks; i++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(conf->inactive_list + i);
- for (i = 0; i < NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < conf->nr_hash_locks; i++)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(conf->temp_inactive_list + i);
atomic_set(&conf->r5c_cached_full_stripes, 0);
@@ -7729,7 +7769,7 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
}
memory = conf->min_nr_stripes * (sizeof(struct stripe_head) +
max_disks * ((sizeof(struct bio) + PAGE_SIZE))) / 1024;
- atomic_set(&conf->empty_inactive_list_nr, NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS);
+ atomic_set(&conf->empty_inactive_list_nr, conf->nr_hash_locks);
if (grow_stripes(conf, conf->min_nr_stripes)) {
pr_warn("md/raid:%s: couldn't allocate %dkB for buffers\n",
mdname(mddev), memory);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.h b/drivers/md/raid5.h
index cb5feae04db2..10c45fa22955 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.h
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.h
@@ -492,18 +492,27 @@ struct disk_info {
#define HASH_MASK (NR_HASH - 1)
#define MAX_STRIPE_BATCH 8
-/* NOTE NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS must remain below 64.
- * This is because we sometimes take all the spinlocks
- * and creating that much locking depth can cause
- * problems.
+/*
+ * The stripe cache hash is striped across a power-of-two number of spinlocks,
+ * chosen per array from the nr_stripe_hash_locks module parameter and stored
+ * in r5conf->nr_hash_locks (with the mask in r5conf->hash_locks_mask). Sizing
+ * the locks per array means systems that do not tune it pay no extra memory
+ * beyond the historical default.
+ *
+ * NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT is that historical value, used when the module
+ * parameter is left alone. NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX bounds the count: taking
+ * all the hash locks at once in lock_all_device_hash_locks_irq(), plus
+ * device_lock, must keep the held lock count below MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) with
+ * lockdep enabled, and it also sizes the embedded/on-stack temp_inactive_list
+ * arrays.
*/
-#define NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS 8
-#define STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MASK (NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS - 1)
+#define NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_DEFAULT 8
+#define NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX 32
struct r5worker {
struct work_struct work;
struct r5worker_group *group;
- struct list_head temp_inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS];
+ struct list_head temp_inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX];
bool working;
};
@@ -570,7 +579,9 @@ struct raid5_percpu {
struct r5conf {
struct hlist_head *stripe_hashtbl;
/* only protect corresponding hash list and inactive_list */
- spinlock_t hash_locks[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS];
+ spinlock_t *hash_locks;
+ int nr_hash_locks; /* power of two, <= NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MAX */
+ int hash_locks_mask; /* nr_hash_locks - 1 */
struct mddev *mddev;
int chunk_sectors;
int level, algorithm, rmw_level;
@@ -650,7 +661,7 @@ struct r5conf {
* Free stripes pool
*/
atomic_t active_stripes;
- struct list_head inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS];
+ struct list_head *inactive_list;
atomic_t r5c_cached_full_stripes;
struct list_head r5c_full_stripe_list;
@@ -675,7 +686,7 @@ struct r5conf {
* the new thread here until we fully activate the array.
*/
struct md_thread __rcu *thread;
- struct list_head temp_inactive_list[NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS];
+ struct list_head *temp_inactive_list;
struct r5worker_group *worker_groups;
int group_cnt;
int worker_cnt_per_group;
--
2.43.0
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 13:23 [PATCH 0/6] md/raid5: size stripe-cache and worker tuning from the hardware Hiroshi Nishida
2026-07-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 1/6] md/raid5: size the worker group array by nr_node_ids Hiroshi Nishida
2026-07-10 13:23 ` Hiroshi Nishida [this message]
2026-07-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 3/6] md/raid5: scale the stripe_cache_size limit with system memory Hiroshi Nishida
2026-07-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 4/6] md/raid5: make the stripe batch size a module parameter Hiroshi Nishida
2026-07-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 5/6] md/raid5: scale the default stripe cache size with system memory Hiroshi Nishida
2026-07-10 13:23 ` [PATCH 6/6] md/raid5: derive the default group_thread_cnt from the hardware Hiroshi Nishida
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