1. 27 7月, 2010 3 次提交
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      xfs: simplify log item descriptor tracking · e98c414f
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Currently we track log item descriptor belonging to a transaction using a
      complex opencoded chunk allocator.  This code has been there since day one
      and seems to work around the lack of an efficient slab allocator.
      
      This patch replaces it with dynamically allocated log item descriptors
      from a dedicated slab pool, linked to the transaction by a linked list.
      
      This allows to greatly simplify the log item descriptor tracking to the
      point where it's just a couple hundred lines in xfs_trans.c instead of
      a separate file.  The external API has also been simplified while we're
      at it - the xfs_trans_add_item and xfs_trans_del_item functions to add/
      delete items from a transaction have been simplified to the bare minium,
      and the xfs_trans_find_item function is replaced with a direct dereference
      of the li_desc field.  All debug code walking the list of log items in
      a transaction is down to a simple list_for_each_entry.
      
      Note that we could easily use a singly linked list here instead of the
      double linked list from list.h as the fastpath only does deletion from
      sequential traversal.  But given that we don't have one available as
      a library function yet I use the list.h functions for simplicity.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      e98c414f
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      xfs: remove unneeded #include statements · 3400777f
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      3400777f
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      xfs: drop dmapi hooks · 288699fe
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
      bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.
      
      This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead.  If we'll ever get HSM
      support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
      in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
      is much help for future work.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      288699fe
  2. 20 7月, 2010 2 次提交
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      xfs: track AGs with reclaimable inodes in per-ag radix tree · 16fd5367
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16348
      
      When the filesystem grows to a large number of allocation groups,
      the summing of recalimable inodes gets expensive. In many cases,
      most AGs won't have any reclaimable inodes and so we are wasting CPU
      time aggregating over these AGs. This is particularly important for
      the inode shrinker that gets called frequently under memory
      pressure.
      
      To avoid the overhead, track AGs with reclaimable inodes in the
      per-ag radix tree so that we can find all the AGs with reclaimable
      inodes via a simple gang tag lookup. This involves setting the tag
      when the first reclaimable inode is tracked in the AG, and removing
      the tag when the last reclaimable inode is removed from the tree.
      Then the summation process becomes a loop walking the radix tree
      summing AGs with the reclaim tag set.
      
      This significantly reduces the overhead of scanning - a 6400 AG
      filesystea now only uses about 25% of a cpu in kswapd while slab
      reclaim progresses instead of being permanently stuck at 100% CPU
      and making little progress. Clean filesystems filesystems will see
      no overhead and the overhead only increases linearly with the number
      of dirty AGs.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      16fd5367
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      xfs: convert inode shrinker to per-filesystem contexts · 70e60ce7
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      Now the shrinker passes us a context, wire up a shrinker context per
      filesystem. This allows us to remove the global mount list and the
      locking problems that introduced. It also means that a shrinker call
      does not need to traverse clean filesystems before finding a
      filesystem with reclaimable inodes.  This significantly reduces
      scanning overhead when lots of filesystems are present.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      70e60ce7
  3. 19 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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      mm: add context argument to shrinker callback · 7f8275d0
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback
      to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink
      caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker
      structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure
      in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the
      callback via container_of().
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      7f8275d0
  4. 24 6月, 2010 2 次提交
  5. 23 6月, 2010 1 次提交
  6. 09 6月, 2010 1 次提交
  7. 03 6月, 2010 1 次提交
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      xfs: skip writeback from reclaim context · 070ecdca
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Allowing writeback from reclaim context causes massive problems with stack
      overflows as we can call into the writeback code which tends to be a heavy
      stack user both in the generic code and XFS from random contexts that
      perform memory allocations.
      
      Follow the example of btrfs (and in slightly different form ext4) and refuse
      to write out data from reclaim context.  This issue should really be handled
      by the VM so that we can tune better for this case, but until we get it
      sorted out there we have to hack around this in each filesystem with a
      complex writeback path.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      
      070ecdca
  8. 29 5月, 2010 5 次提交
  9. 28 5月, 2010 1 次提交
  10. 24 5月, 2010 3 次提交
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      xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code · 71e330b5
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as
      such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount
      option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that
      should not be used in production yet.
      
      We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not
      yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List
      (CIL) is for.
      
      The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log
      vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit
      Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable
      this tracking.
      
      To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed
      logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context
      for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction
      completion.  This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space
      log required/used by the context checkpoint.
      
      To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item,
      rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new
      log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to
      allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the
      second to fill them out.  This log vector chain can then be passed
      to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL.
      
      Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just
      a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly
      more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point
      back at the memory buffer we just copied into.
      
      This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not
      already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be
      pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it
      again.
      
      The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space
      the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the
      transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex
      becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the
      checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update
      all the tickets, counters, etc correctly.
      
      Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach
      the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live
      until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in
      time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time.
      
      Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space
      used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the
      space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be
      triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event.
      
      Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the
      transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it
      to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a
      commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket
      and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during
      Io completion to complete the checkpoint.
      
      We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight
      checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure
      that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct
      sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The
      second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only
      flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with.
      
      To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the
      checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for
      the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides
      the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      71e330b5
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      xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking · ed3b4d6c
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      When we free a metadata extent, we record it in the per-AG busy
      extent array so that it is not re-used before the freeing
      transaction hits the disk. This array is fixed size, so when it
      overflows we make further allocation transactions synchronous
      because we cannot track more freed extents until those transactions
      hit the disk and are completed. Under heavy mixed allocation and
      freeing workloads with large log buffers, we can overflow this array
      quite easily.
      
      Further, the array is sparsely populated, which means that inserts
      need to search for a free slot, and array searches often have to
      search many more slots that are actually used to check all the
      busy extents. Quite inefficient, really.
      
      To enable this aspect of extent freeing to scale better, we need
      a structure that can grow dynamically. While in other areas of
      XFS we have used radix trees, the extents being freed are at random
      locations on disk so are better suited to being indexed by an rbtree.
      
      So, use a per-AG rbtree indexed by block number to track busy
      extents.  This incures a memory allocation when marking an extent
      busy, but should not occur too often in low memory situations. This
      should scale to an arbitrary number of extents so should not be a
      limitation for features such as in-memory aggregation of
      transactions.
      
      However, there are still situations where we can't avoid allocating
      busy extents (such as allocation from the AGFL). To minimise the
      overhead of such occurences, we need to avoid doing a synchronous
      log force while holding the AGF locked to ensure that the previous
      transactions are safely on disk before we use the extent. We can do
      this by marking the transaction doing the allocation as synchronous
      rather issuing a log force.
      
      Because of the locking involved and the ordering of transactions,
      the synchronous transaction provides the same guarantees as a
      synchronous log force because it ensures that all the prior
      transactions are already on disk when the synchronous transaction
      hits the disk. i.e. it preserves the free->allocate order of the
      extent correctly in recovery.
      
      By doing this, we avoid holding the AGF locked while log writes are
      in progress, hence reducing the length of time the lock is held and
      therefore we increase the rate at which we can allocate and free
      from the allocation group, thereby increasing overall throughput.
      
      The only problem with this approach is that when a metadata buffer is
      marked stale (e.g. a directory block is removed), then buffer remains
      pinned and locked until the log goes to disk. The issue here is that
      if that stale buffer is reallocated in a subsequent transaction, the
      attempt to lock that buffer in the transaction will hang waiting
      the log to go to disk to unlock and unpin the buffer. Hence if
      someone tries to lock a pinned, stale, locked buffer we need to
      push on the log to get it unlocked ASAP. Effectively we are trading
      off a guaranteed log force for a much less common trigger for log
      force to occur.
      
      Ideally we should not reallocate busy extents. That is a much more
      complex fix to the problem as it involves direct intervention in the
      allocation btree searches in many places. This is left to a future
      set of modifications.
      
      Finally, now that we track busy extents in allocated memory, we
      don't need the descriptors in the transaction structure to point to
      them. We can replace the complex busy chunk infrastructure with a
      simple linked list of busy extents. This allows us to remove a large
      chunk of code, making the overall change a net reduction in code
      size.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      ed3b4d6c
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      xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace · c1155410
      Dave Chinner 提交于
      Clean up the buffer log format (XFS_BLI_*) flags because they have a
      polluted namespace. They XFS_BLI_ prefix is used for both in-memory
      and on-disk flag feilds, but have overlapping values for different
      flags. Rename the buffer log format flags to use the XFS_BLF_*
      prefix to avoid confusing them with the in-memory XFS_BLI_* prefixed
      flags.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      c1155410
  11. 22 5月, 2010 3 次提交
  12. 19 5月, 2010 17 次提交