Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932591Ab0AFSiQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:38:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932570Ab0AFSiP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:38:15 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37074 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932232Ab0AFSiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:38:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads From: Peter Zijlstra To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Wu Fengguang , Jan Kara , Steve Rago , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "jens.axboe" , Peter Staubach , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <1262802387.4251.117.camel@localhost> References: <20091222015907.GA6223@localhost> <1261578107.2606.11.camel@localhost> <20091223180551.GD3159@quack.suse.cz> <1261595574.6775.2.camel@localhost> <20091224025228.GA12477@localhost> <1261656281.3596.1.camel@localhost> <20091225055617.GA8595@localhost> <1262190168.7332.6.camel@localhost> <20091231050441.GB19627@localhost> <1262286828.8151.113.camel@localhost> <20100106030346.GA15962@localhost> <1262796962.4251.91.camel@localhost> <1262802387.4251.117.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:37:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1262803040.4049.62.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6512 Lines: 178 On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 13:26 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > OK. It looks as if the only key to finding out how many unstable writes > we have is to use global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS), so we can't > specifically target our own backing-dev. Would be a simple matter of splitting BDI_UNSTABLE out from BDI_RECLAIMABLE, no? Something like --- fs/nfs/write.c | 6 +++--- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 ++- mm/backing-dev.c | 6 ++++-- mm/filemap.c | 2 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 16 ++++++++++------ mm/truncate.c | 2 +- 6 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index d171696..7ba56f8 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ nfs_mark_request_commit(struct nfs_page *req) NFS_PAGE_TAG_COMMIT); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); inc_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); - inc_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + inc_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_UNSTABLE); __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC); } @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ nfs_clear_request_commit(struct nfs_page *req) if (test_and_clear_bit(PG_CLEAN, &(req)->wb_flags)) { dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); - dec_bdi_stat(page->mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + dec_bdi_stat(page->mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_UNSTABLE); return 1; } return 0; @@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ nfs_commit_list(struct inode *inode, struct list_head *head, int how) nfs_mark_request_commit(req); dec_zone_page_state(req->wb_page, NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); dec_bdi_stat(req->wb_page->mapping->backing_dev_info, - BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + BDI_UNSTABLE); nfs_clear_page_tag_locked(req); } return -ENOMEM; diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev.h b/include/linux/backing-dev.h index fcbc26a..1ef1e5c 100644 --- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h +++ b/include/linux/backing-dev.h @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ enum bdi_state { typedef int (congested_fn)(void *, int); enum bdi_stat_item { - BDI_RECLAIMABLE, + BDI_DIRTY, + DBI_UNSTABLE, BDI_WRITEBACK, NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS }; diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 0e8ca03..88f3655 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) #define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)) seq_printf(m, "BdiWriteback: %8lu kB\n" - "BdiReclaimable: %8lu kB\n" + "BdiDirty: %8lu kB\n" + "BdiUnstable: %8lu kB\n" "BdiDirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n" "DirtyThresh: %8lu kB\n" "BackgroundThresh: %8lu kB\n" @@ -102,7 +103,8 @@ static int bdi_debug_stats_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) "wb_list: %8u\n" "wb_cnt: %8u\n", (unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK)), - (unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE)), + (unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_DIRTY)), + (unsigned long) K(bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_UNSTABLE)), K(bdi_thresh), K(dirty_thresh), K(background_thresh), nr_wb, nr_dirty, nr_io, nr_more_io, !list_empty(&bdi->bdi_list), bdi->state, bdi->wb_mask, diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 96ac6b0..458387d 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ void __remove_from_page_cache(struct page *page) */ if (PageDirty(page) && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); - dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTY); } } diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 0b19943..b1d31be 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -272,7 +272,8 @@ static void clip_bdi_dirty_limit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, else avail_dirty = 0; - avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE) + + avail_dirty += bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_DIRTY) + + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_UNSTABLE) + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); *pbdi_dirty = min(*pbdi_dirty, avail_dirty); @@ -509,7 +510,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); nr_writeback = global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); - bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_DIRTY) + + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_UNSTABLE); bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); if (bdi_nr_reclaimable + bdi_nr_writeback <= bdi_thresh) @@ -554,10 +556,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * deltas. */ if (bdi_thresh < 2*bdi_stat_error(bdi)) { - bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_DIRTY) + + bdi_stat_sum(bdi, DBI_UNSTABLE); bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat_sum(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } else if (bdi_nr_reclaimable) { - bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + bdi_nr_reclaimable = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_DIRTY) + + bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_UNSTABLE); bdi_nr_writeback = bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } @@ -1079,7 +1083,7 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) { if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); - __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTY); task_dirty_inc(current); task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); } @@ -1255,7 +1259,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page) if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) { dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, - BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + BDI_DIRTY); return 1; } return 0; diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 342deee..b0ce8fb 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page, unsigned int account_size) if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY); dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, - BDI_RECLAIMABLE); + BDI_DIRTY); if (account_size) task_io_account_cancelled_write(account_size); } -- 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/