- 21 Jul, 2011 5 commits
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Dave Chinner authored
Convert the inode reclaim shrinker to use the new per-sb shrinker operations. This allows much bigger reclaim batches to be used, and allows the XFS inode cache to be shrunk in proportion with the VFS dentry and inode caches. This avoids the problem of the VFS caches being shrunk significantly before the XFS inode cache is shrunk resulting in imbalances in the caches during reclaim. Signed-off-by:
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Dave Chinner authored
Now that the per-sb shrinker is responsible for shrinking 2 or more caches, increase the batch size to keep econmies of scale for shrinking each cache. Increase the shrinker batch size to 1024 objects. To allow for a large increase in batch size, add a conditional reschedule to prune_icache_sb() so that we don't hold the LRU spin lock for too long. This mirrors the behaviour of the __shrink_dcache_sb(), and allows us to increase the batch size without needing to worry about problems caused by long lock hold times. To ensure that filesystems using the per-sb shrinker callouts don't cause problems, document that the object freeing method must reschedule appropriately inside loops. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
Now we have a per-superblock shrinker implementation, we can add a filesystem specific callout to it to allow filesystem internal caches to be shrunk by the superblock shrinker. Rather than perpetuate the multipurpose shrinker callback API (i.e. nr_to_scan == 0 meaning "tell me how many objects freeable in the cache), two operations will be added. The first will return the number of objects that are freeable, the second is the actual shrinker call. Signed-off-by:
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Now that we have per-sb shrinkers with a lifecycle that is a subset of the superblock lifecycle and can reliably detect a filesystem being unmounted, there is not longer any race condition for the iprune_sem to protect against. Hence we can remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
With context based shrinkers, we can implement a per-superblock shrinker that shrinks the caches attached to the superblock. We currently have global shrinkers for the inode and dentry caches that split up into per-superblock operations via a coarse proportioning method that does not batch very well. The global shrinkers also have a dependency - dentries pin inodes - so we have to be very careful about how we register the global shrinkers so that the implicit call order is always correct. With a per-sb shrinker callout, we can encode this dependency directly into the per-sb shrinker, hence avoiding the need for strictly ordering shrinker registrations. We also have no need for any proportioning code for the shrinker subsystem already provides this functionality across all shrinkers. Allowing the shrinker to operate on a single superblock at a time means that we do less superblock list traversals and locking and reclaim should batch more effectively. This should result in less CPU overhead for reclaim and potentially faster reclaim of items from each filesystem. Signed-off-by:
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- 20 Jul, 2011 35 commits
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Dave Chinner authored
The per-sb shrinker has the same requirement as the writeback threads of ensuring that the superblock is usable and pinned for the time it takes to run the work. Both need to take a passive reference to the sb, take a read lock on the s_umount lock and then only continue if an unmount is not in progress. pin_sb_for_writeback() does this exactly, so move it to fs/super.c and rename it to grab_super_passive() and exporting it via fs/internal.h for all the VFS code to be able to use. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
With the inode LRUs moving to per-sb structures, there is no longer a need for a global inode_lru_lock. The locking can be made more fine-grained by moving to a per-sb LRU lock, isolating the LRU operations of different filesytsems completely from each other. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
The inode unused list is currently a global LRU. This does not match the other global filesystem cache - the dentry cache - which uses per-superblock LRU lists. Hence we have related filesystem object types using different LRU reclaimation schemes. To enable a per-superblock filesystem cache shrinker, both of these caches need to have per-sb unused object LRU lists. Hence this patch converts the global inode LRU to per-sb LRUs. The patch only does rudimentary per-sb propotioning in the shrinker infrastructure, as this gets removed when the per-sb shrinker callouts are introduced later on. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
Before we split up the inode_lru_lock, the unused inode counter needs to be made independent of the global inode_lru_lock. Convert it to per-cpu counters to do this. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
For shrinkers that have their own cond_resched* calls, having shrink_slab break the work down into small batches is not paticularly efficient. Add a custom batchsize field to the struct shrinker so that shrinkers can use a larger batch size if they desire. A value of zero (uninitialised) means "use the default", so behaviour is unchanged by this patch. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
When a shrinker returns -1 to shrink_slab() to indicate it cannot do any work given the current memory reclaim requirements, it adds the entire total_scan count to shrinker->nr. The idea ehind this is that whenteh shrinker is next called and can do work, it will do the work of the previously aborted shrinker call as well. However, if a filesystem is doing lots of allocation with GFP_NOFS set, then we get many, many more aborts from the shrinkers than we do successful calls. The result is that shrinker->nr winds up to it's maximum permissible value (twice the current cache size) and then when the next shrinker call that can do work is issued, it has enough scan count built up to free the entire cache twice over. This manifests itself in the cache going from full to empty in a matter of seconds, even when only a small part of the cache is needed to be emptied to free sufficient memory. Under metadata intensive workloads on ext4 and XFS, I'm seeing the VFS caches increase memory consumption up to 75% of memory (no page cache pressure) over a period of 30-60s, and then the shrinker empties them down to zero in the space of 2-3s. This cycle repeats over and over again, with the shrinker completely trashing the inode and dentry caches every minute or so the workload continues. This behaviour was made obvious by the shrink_slab tracepoints added earlier in the series, and made worse by the patch that corrected the concurrent accounting of shrinker->nr. To avoid this problem, stop repeated small increments of the total scan value from winding shrinker->nr up to a value that can cause the entire cache to be freed. We still need to allow it to wind up, so use the delta as the "large scan" threshold check - if the delta is more than a quarter of the entire cache size, then it is a large scan and allowed to cause lots of windup because we are clearly needing to free lots of memory. If it isn't a large scan then limit the total scan to half the size of the cache so that windup never increases to consume the whole cache. Reducing the total scan limit further does not allow enough wind-up to maintain the current levels of performance, whilst a higher threshold does not prevent the windup from freeing the entire cache under sustained workloads. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
shrink_slab() allows shrinkers to be called in parallel so the struct shrinker can be updated concurrently. It does not provide any exclusio for such updates, so we can get the shrinker->nr value increasing or decreasing incorrectly. As a result, when a shrinker repeatedly returns a value of -1 (e.g. a VFS shrinker called w/ GFP_NOFS), the shrinker->nr goes haywire, sometimes updating with the scan count that wasn't used, sometimes losing it altogether. Worse is when a shrinker does work and that update is lost due to racy updates, which means the shrinker will do the work again! Fix this by making the total_scan calculations independent of shrinker->nr, and making the shrinker->nr updates atomic w.r.t. to other updates via cmpxchg loops. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
It is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow insight to be gained. Signed-off-by:
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Al Viro authored
... and simplify the living hell out of callers Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
d_splice_alias(NULL, dentry) is equivalent to d_add(dentry, NULL), NULL so no need for that if (inode) ... in there (or ERR_PTR(0), for that matter) Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
just rewind it to the beginning before vfs_readdir() and be done with that... Signed-off-by: -
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never is... Signed-off-by: -
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it never is... Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
New helper (non-exported, fs/internal.h-only): __d_alloc(sb, name). Allocates dentry, sets its ->d_sb to given superblock and sets ->d_op accordingly. Old d_alloc(NULL, name) callers are converted to that (all of them know what superblock they want). d_alloc() itself is left only for parent != NULl case; uses __d_alloc(), inserts result into the list of parent's children. Note that now ->d_sb is assign-once and never NULL *and* ->d_parent is never NULL either. Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
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folded into the only caller (kern_path_create()) Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
We do _NOT_ want to mkdir the path itself - we are preparing to mknod it, after all. Normally it'll fail with -ENOENT and just do nothing, but if somebody has created the parent in the meanwhile, we'll get buggered... Signed-off-by: -
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Al Viro authored
... and give it a namespace where devtmpfs would be mounted on root, thus avoiding abuses of vfs_path_lookup() (it was never intended to be used with LOOKUP_PARENT). Games with credentials are also gone. Signed-off-by: -
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Al Viro authored
combination of kern_path_parent() and lookup_create(). Does *not* expose struct nameidata to caller. Syscalls converted to that... Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
LOOKUP_PARENT is equivalent to it now Signed-off-by: -
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... it will be set in nd->flag for all cases with non-NULL nd (i.e. when called from do_last()). Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
Instead of playing with removal of LOOKUP_OPEN, mangling (and restoring) nd->path, just pass NULL to vfs_create(). The whole point of what's being done there is to suppress any attempts to open file by underlying fs, which is what nd == NULL indicates. Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
->create() instances are much happier that way... Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
All instances can cope with that now (and ceph one actually starts working properly). Signed-off-by: -
Al Viro authored
a) check the right flags in ->create() (LOOKUP_OPEN, not LOOKUP_CREATE) b) default (!LOOKUP_OPEN) open_flags is O_CREAT|O_EXCL|FMODE_READ, not 0 c) lookup_instantiate_filp() should be done only with LOOKUP_OPEN; otherwise we need to issue CLOSE, lest we leak stateid on server. Signed-off-by:
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