Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752694Ab3DKLS6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:18:58 -0400 Received: from relay.parallels.com ([195.214.232.42]:53440 "EHLO relay.parallels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812Ab3DKLS5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:18:57 -0400 Message-ID: <51669C31.2080705@parallels.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:19:13 +0400 From: "Maxim V. Patlasov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "miklos@szeredi.hu" CC: , , , , Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 0/4] fuse: fix accounting background requests (v2) References: <20130321140047.4051.6701.stgit@maximpc.sw.ru> In-Reply-To: <20130321140047.4051.6701.stgit@maximpc.sw.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.30.17.2] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3042 Lines: 73 Hi Miklos, Any feedback would be highly appreciated. Thanks, Maxim 03/21/2013 06:01 PM, Maxim V. Patlasov пишет: > Hi, > > The feature was added long time ago (commit 08a53cdc...) with the comment: > >> A task may have at most one synchronous request allocated. So these requests >> need not be otherwise limited. >> >> However the number of background requests (release, forget, asynchronous >> reads, interrupted requests) can grow indefinitely. This can be used by a >> malicous user to cause FUSE to allocate arbitrary amounts of unswappable >> kernel memory, denying service. >> >> For this reason add a limit for the number of background requests, and block >> allocations of new requests until the number goes bellow the limit. > However, the implementation suffers from the following problems: > > 1. Latency of synchronous requests. As soon as fc->num_background hits the > limit, all allocations are blocked: both for synchronous and background > requests. This is unnecessary - as the comment cited above states, synchronous > requests need not be limited (by fuse). Moreover, sometimes it's very > inconvenient. For example, a dozen of tasks aggressively writing to mmap()-ed > area may block 'ls' for long while (>1min in my experiments). > > 2. Thundering herd problem. When fc->num_background falls below the limit, > request_end() calls wake_up_all(&fc->blocked_waitq). This wakes up all waiters > while it's not impossible that the first waiter getting new request will > immediately put it to background increasing fc->num_background again. > (experimenting with mmap()-ed writes I observed 2x slowdown as compared with > fuse after applying this patch-set) > > The patch-set re-works fuse_get_req (and its callers) to throttle only requests > intended for background processing. Having this done, it becomes possible to > use exclusive wakeups in chained manner: request_end() wakes up a waiter, > the waiter allocates new request and submits it for background processing, > the processing ends in request_end() where another wakeup happens an so on. > > Changed in v2: > - rebased on for-next branch of the fuse tree > - fixed race when processing request begins before init-reply came > > Thanks, > Maxim > > --- > > Maxim V. Patlasov (4): > fuse: make request allocations for background processing explicit > fuse: add flag fc->uninitialized > fuse: skip blocking on allocations of synchronous requests > fuse: implement exclusive wakeup for blocked_waitq > > > fs/fuse/cuse.c | 3 ++ > fs/fuse/dev.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > fs/fuse/file.c | 6 +++-- > fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 8 ++++++ > fs/fuse/inode.c | 4 +++ > 5 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/