Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753572Ab2HaBof (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:44:35 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:36296 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753291Ab2HaBod (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:44:33 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:43:59 -0700 From: Kent Overstreet To: Vivek Goyal Cc: Mikulas Patocka , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, tj@kernel.org, bharrosh@panasas.com, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 9/9] block: Avoid deadlocks with bio allocation by stacking drivers Message-ID: <20120831014359.GB15218@moria.home.lan> References: <1346175456-1572-1-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <1346175456-1572-10-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com> <20120829165006.GB20312@google.com> <20120829170711.GC12504@redhat.com> <20120829171345.GC20312@google.com> <20120830220745.GI27257@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120830220745.GI27257@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2108 Lines: 47 On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 06:07:45PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:13:45AM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > [..] > > > Performance aside, punting submission to per device worker in case of deep > > > stack usage sounds cleaner solution to me. > > > > Agreed, but performance tends to matter in the real world. And either > > way the tricky bits are going to be confined to a few functions, so I > > don't think it matters that much. > > > > If someone wants to code up the workqueue version and test it, they're > > more than welcome... > > Here is one quick and dirty proof of concept patch. It checks for stack > depth and if remaining space is less than 20% of stack size, then it > defers the bio submission to per queue worker. I can't think of any correctness issues. I see some stuff that could be simplified (blk_drain_deferred_bios() is redundant, just make it a wrapper around blk_deffered_bio_work()). Still skeptical about the performance impact, though - frankly, on some of the hardware I've been running bcache on this would be a visible performance regression - probably double digit percentages but I'd have to benchmark it. That kind of of hardware/usage is not normal today, but I've put a lot of work into performance and I don't want to make things worse without good reason. Have you tested/benchmarked it? There's scheduling behaviour, too. We really want the workqueue thread's cpu time to be charged to the process that submitted the bio. (We could use a mechanism like that in other places, too... not like this is a new issue). This is going to be a real issue for users that need strong isolation - for any driver that uses non negligable cpu (i.e. dm crypt), we're breaking that (not that it wasn't broken already, but this makes it worse). I could be convinced, but right now I prefer my solution. -- 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/