Commit daba542 ("xfs: skip verification on initial "guess"
superblock read") dropped the use of a verifier for the initial
superblock read so we can probe the sector size of the filesystem
stored in the superblock. It, however, now fails to validate that
what was read initially is actually an XFS superblock and hence will
fail the sector size check and return ENOSYS.
This causes probe-based mounts to fail because it expects XFS to
return EINVAL when it doesn't recognise the superblock format.
cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Plamen Petrov <plamen.sisi@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Plamen Petrov <plamen.sisi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Upon memory pressure, kswapd calls xfs_vm_writepage() from
shrink_page_list(). This can result in delayed allocation occurring
and that gets deferred to the the allocation workqueue.
The allocation then runs outside kswapd context, which means if it
needs memory (and it does to demand page metadata from disk) it can
block in shrink_inactive_list() waiting for IO congestion. These
blocking waits are normally avoiding in kswapd context, so under
memory pressure writeback from kswapd can be arbitrarily delayed by
memory reclaim.
To avoid this, pass the kswapd context to the allocation being done
by the workqueue, so that memory reclaim understands correctly that
the work is being done for kswapd and therefore it is not blocked
and does not delay memory reclaim.
To avoid issues with int->char conversion of flag fields (as noticed
in v1 of this patch) convert the flag fields in the struct
xfs_bmalloca to bool types. pahole indicates these variables are
still single byte variables, so no extra space is consumed by this
change.
cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works. However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd. Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME). This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.
In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr. The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
perf_event_comm() assumes that set_task_comm() is only called on
exec(), and in particular that its only called on current.
Neither are true, as Dave reported a WARN triggered by set_task_comm()
being called on !current.
Separate the exec() hook from the comm hook.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140521153219.GH5226@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It's carried in state->args->geo, so there's no need to duplicate it
and use more stack space than necessary.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
As it's only ever called from contexts where the xfs_da_args is
present and contains all the information needed inside the args
structure.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Rather than using the superblock value obtained through the
xfs_mount.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We don't pass the xfs_da_args or the geometry all the way down to
the directory buffer logging code, hence we have to use
mp->m_dir_geo here. Fix this to use the geometry passed via the
xfs_da_args, and convert all the directory logging functions for
consistency.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
There are many places in the directory code were we don't pass the
args into and so have to extract the geometry direct from the mount
structure. Push the args or the geometry into these leaf functions
so that we don't need to grab it from the struct xfs_mount.
This, in turn, brings use to the point where directory geometry is
no longer a property of the struct xfs_mount; it is not a global
property anymore, and hence we can start to consider per-directory
configuration of physical geometries.
Start by converting the xfs_dir_isblock/leaf code - pass in the
xfs_da_args and convert the readdir code to use xfs_da_args like
the rest of the directory code to pass information around.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
They are just simple wrappers around xfs_dir2_byte_to_db(), and
we've already removed one usage earlier in the patch set. Kill
the rest before we start removing the xfs_mount from conversion
functions.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Because they aren't actually part of the on-disk format, and so
shouldn't be in xfs_da_format.h.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
The directory code has a dependency on the struct xfs_mount to
supply the directory block geometry. Block size, block log size,
and other parameters are pre-caclulated in the struct xfs_mount or
access directly from the superblock embedded in the struct
xfs_mount.
Extract all of this geometry information out of the struct xfs_mount
and superblock and place it into a new struct xfs_da_geometry
defined by the directory code. Allocate and initialise it at mount
time, and attach it to the struct xfs_mount so it canbe passed back
into the directory code appropriately rather than using the struct
xfs_mount.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
We recently modified the client/MDS protocol to include a timestamp in the
client request. This allows ctime updates to follow the client's clock
in most cases, which avoids subtle problems when clocks are out of sync
and timestamps are updated sometimes by the MDS clock (for most requests)
and sometimes by the client clock (for cap writeback).
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
If the return value of ceph_osdc_readpages() is not negative,
it is certainly greater than or equal to zero.
Remove the useless condition judgment and redundant braces.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
handle following sequence of events:
- mds0 exports an inode to mds1. client receives the cap import
message from mds1. caps from mds0 are removed while handling
the cap import message.
- mds1 exports an inode to mds0. client receives the cap export
message from mds1. handle_cap_export() adds placeholder caps
for mds0
- client receives the first cap export message (for exporting
inode from mds0 to mds1)
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Move the code that update the i_fragtree into a separate function.
Also add simple probabilistic test to decide whether the i_fragtree
should be updated
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
cap import messages are processed by both handle_cap_import() and
handle_cap_grant(). These two functions are not executed in the same
atomic context, so they can races with cap release.
The fix is make handle_cap_import() not release the i_ceph_lock when
it returns. Let handle_cap_grant() release the lock after it finishes
its job.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
So that ceph_add_cap() can be used while i_ceph_lock is locked.
This simplifies the code that handle cap import/export.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
Cap message and request reply from non-auth MDS may carry stale
information (corresponding locks are in LOCK states) even they
have the newest inode version. So client should update inode fields
according to issued caps.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
cap grant/revoke message from non-auth MDS can update inode's size
and truncate_seq/truncate_size. (the message arrives before auth
MDS's cap trunc message)
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
posix_acl_xattr_set() already does the check, and it's the only
way to feed in an ACL from userspace.
So the check here is useless, remove it.
Signed-off-by: zhang zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com>
The addition of lockdep code to write_seqcount_begin/end has lead to
a bunch of false positive claims of ABBA deadlocks with the so_lock
spinlock. Audits show that this simply cannot happen because the
read side code does not spin while holding so_lock.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13.x
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Pull x86 cdso updates from Peter Anvin:
"Vdso cleanups and improvements largely from Andy Lutomirski. This
makes the vdso a lot less ''special''"
* 'x86/vdso' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/vdso, build: Make LE access macros clearer, host-safe
x86/vdso, build: Fix cross-compilation from big-endian architectures
x86/vdso, build: When vdso2c fails, unlink the output
x86, vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the HPET mapping w/o an HPET
x86, mm: Replace arch_vma_name with vm_ops->name for vsyscalls
x86, mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming
mm, fs: Add vm_ops->name as an alternative to arch_vma_name
x86, vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the HPET mapping w/o an HPET
x86, vdso: Remove vestiges of VDSO_PRELINK and some outdated comments
x86, vdso: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO
x86, vdso: Move the 32-bit vdso special pages after the text
x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C
x86, vdso: Move syscall and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c
x86, vdso: Clean up 32-bit vs 64-bit vdso params
x86, mm: Ensure correct alignment of the fixmap
autofs_dev_ioctl_init is only called by __init init_autofs4_fs
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
old_reloc() is only used in this file, make it static.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All KERN_DEBUG callsites being under #ifdef DEBUG we can safely convert
everything to pr_debug without changing current behaviour.
Remove #ifdef DEBUG around pr_debugs only (suggested by Joe Perches)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Also uniformize function arguments.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert all except KERN_DEBUG
(pr_debug doesn't work the same as printk(KERN_DEBUG and requires
special check)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixing 2 typo in function comments.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
...like other filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We remove the call to grab_super_passive in call to super_cache_count.
This becomes a scalability bottleneck as multiple threads are trying to do
memory reclamation, e.g. when we are doing large amount of file read and
page cache is under pressure. The cached objects quickly got reclaimed
down to 0 and we are aborting the cache_scan() reclaim. But counting
creates a log jam acquiring the sb_lock.
We are holding the shrinker_rwsem which ensures the safety of call to
list_lru_count_node() and s_op->nr_cached_objects. The shrinker is
unregistered now before ->kill_sb() so the operation is safe when we are
doing unmount.
The impact will depend heavily on the machine and the workload but for a
small machine using postmark tuned to use 4xRAM size the results were
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec Transactions 21.00 ( 0.00%) 24.00 ( 14.29%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate 39.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 12.82%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact 10.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted 6202.00 ( 0.00%) 6202.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact 11.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB 25.97 ( 0.00%) 29.10 ( 12.05%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB 49.99 ( 0.00%) 56.02 ( 12.06%)
ffsb running in a configuration that is meant to simulate a mail server showed
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec readall 9402.63 ( 0.00%) 9567.97 ( 1.76%)
Ops/sec create 4695.45 ( 0.00%) 4735.00 ( 0.84%)
Ops/sec delete 173.72 ( 0.00%) 179.83 ( 3.52%)
Ops/sec Transactions 14271.80 ( 0.00%) 14482.81 ( 1.48%)
Ops/sec Read 37.00 ( 0.00%) 37.60 ( 1.62%)
Ops/sec Write 18.20 ( 0.00%) 18.30 ( 0.55%)
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This series is aimed at regressions noticed during reclaim activity. The
first two patches are shrinker patches that were posted ages ago but never
merged for reasons that are unclear to me. I'm posting them again to see
if there was a reason they were dropped or if they just got lost. Dave?
Time? The last patch adjusts proportional reclaim. Yuanhan Liu, can you
retest the vm scalability test cases on a larger machine? Hugh, does this
work for you on the memcg test cases?
Based on ext4, I get the following results but unfortunately my larger
test machines are all unavailable so this is based on a relatively small
machine.
postmark
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec Transactions 21.00 ( 0.00%) 25.00 ( 19.05%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate 39.00 ( 0.00%) 45.00 ( 15.38%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact 10.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted 6202.00 ( 0.00%) 6202.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact 11.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB 25.97 ( 0.00%) 30.02 ( 15.59%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB 49.99 ( 0.00%) 57.78 ( 15.58%)
ffsb (mail server simulator)
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec readall 9402.63 ( 0.00%) 9805.74 ( 4.29%)
Ops/sec create 4695.45 ( 0.00%) 4781.39 ( 1.83%)
Ops/sec delete 173.72 ( 0.00%) 177.23 ( 2.02%)
Ops/sec Transactions 14271.80 ( 0.00%) 14764.37 ( 3.45%)
Ops/sec Read 37.00 ( 0.00%) 38.50 ( 4.05%)
Ops/sec Write 18.20 ( 0.00%) 18.50 ( 1.65%)
dd of a large file
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla proportion-v1r4
WallTime DownloadTar 75.00 ( 0.00%) 61.00 ( 18.67%)
WallTime DD 423.00 ( 0.00%) 401.00 ( 5.20%)
WallTime Delete 2.00 ( 0.00%) 5.00 (-150.00%)
stutter (times mmap latency during large amounts of IO)
3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5
vanilla proportion-v1r4
Unit >5ms Delays 80252.0000 ( 0.00%) 81523.0000 ( -1.58%)
Unit Mmap min 8.2118 ( 0.00%) 8.3206 ( -1.33%)
Unit Mmap mean 17.4614 ( 0.00%) 17.2868 ( 1.00%)
Unit Mmap stddev 24.9059 ( 0.00%) 34.6771 (-39.23%)
Unit Mmap max 2811.6433 ( 0.00%) 2645.1398 ( 5.92%)
Unit Mmap 90% 20.5098 ( 0.00%) 18.3105 ( 10.72%)
Unit Mmap 93% 22.9180 ( 0.00%) 20.1751 ( 11.97%)
Unit Mmap 95% 25.2114 ( 0.00%) 22.4988 ( 10.76%)
Unit Mmap 99% 46.1430 ( 0.00%) 43.5952 ( 5.52%)
Unit Ideal Tput 85.2623 ( 0.00%) 78.8906 ( 7.47%)
Unit Tput min 44.0666 ( 0.00%) 43.9609 ( 0.24%)
Unit Tput mean 45.5646 ( 0.00%) 45.2009 ( 0.80%)
Unit Tput stddev 0.9318 ( 0.00%) 1.1084 (-18.95%)
Unit Tput max 46.7375 ( 0.00%) 46.7539 ( -0.04%)
This patch (of 3):
We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before ->kill_sb(). This will
allow cached objects to be counted without call to grab_super_passive() to
update ref count on sb. We want to avoid locking during memory
reclamation especially when we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are
out of cached objects.
This is safe because grab_super_passive does a try-lock on the
sb->s_umount now, and so if we are in the unmount process, it won't ever
block. That means what used to be a deadlock and races we were avoiding
by using grab_super_passive() is now:
shrinker umount
down_read(shrinker_rwsem)
down_write(sb->s_umount)
shrinker_unregister
down_write(shrinker_rwsem)
<blocks>
grab_super_passive(sb)
down_read_trylock(sb->s_umount)
<fails>
<shrinker aborts>
....
<shrinkers finish running>
up_read(shrinker_rwsem)
<unblocks>
<removes shrinker>
up_write(shrinker_rwsem)
->kill_sb()
....
So it is safe to deregister the shrinker before ->kill_sb().
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix checkpatch warning:
WARNING: kfree(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
...like other filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hugetlbfs_i_mmap_mutex_key is only used in inode.c
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
aops->write_begin may allocate a new page and make it visible only to have
mark_page_accessed called almost immediately after. Once the page is
visible the atomic operations are necessary which is noticable overhead
when writing to an in-memory filesystem like tmpfs but should also be
noticable with fast storage. The objective of the patch is to initialse
the accessed information with non-atomic operations before the page is
visible.
The bulk of filesystems directly or indirectly use
grab_cache_page_write_begin or find_or_create_page for the initial
allocation of a page cache page. This patch adds an init_page_accessed()
helper which behaves like the first call to mark_page_accessed() but may
called before the page is visible and can be done non-atomically.
The primary APIs of concern in this care are the following and are used
by most filesystems.
find_get_page
find_lock_page
find_or_create_page
grab_cache_page_nowait
grab_cache_page_write_begin
All of them are very similar in detail to the patch creates a core helper
pagecache_get_page() which takes a flags parameter that affects its
behavior such as whether the page should be marked accessed or not. Then
old API is preserved but is basically a thin wrapper around this core
function.
Each of the filesystems are then updated to avoid calling
mark_page_accessed when it is known that the VM interfaces have already
done the job. There is a slight snag in that the timing of the
mark_page_accessed() has now changed so in rare cases it's possible a page
gets to the end of the LRU as PageReferenced where as previously it might
have been repromoted. This is expected to be rare but it's worth the
filesystem people thinking about it in case they see a problem with the
timing change. It is also the case that some filesystems may be marking
pages accessed that previously did not but it makes sense that filesystems
have consistent behaviour in this regard.
The test case used to evaulate this is a simple dd of a large file done
multiple times with the file deleted on each iterations. The size of the
file is 1/10th physical memory to avoid dirty page balancing. In the
async case it will be possible that the workload completes without even
hitting the disk and will have variable results but highlight the impact
of mark_page_accessed for async IO. The sync results are expected to be
more stable. The exception is tmpfs where the normal case is for the "IO"
to not hit the disk.
The test machine was single socket and UMA to avoid any scheduling or NUMA
artifacts. Throughput and wall times are presented for sync IO, only wall
times are shown for async as the granularity reported by dd and the
variability is unsuitable for comparison. As async results were variable
do to writback timings, I'm only reporting the maximum figures. The sync
results were stable enough to make the mean and stddev uninteresting.
The performance results are reported based on a run with no profiling.
Profile data is based on a separate run with oprofile running.
async dd
3.15.0-rc3 3.15.0-rc3
vanilla accessed-v2
ext3 Max elapsed 13.9900 ( 0.00%) 11.5900 ( 17.16%)
tmpfs Max elapsed 0.5100 ( 0.00%) 0.4900 ( 3.92%)
btrfs Max elapsed 12.8100 ( 0.00%) 12.7800 ( 0.23%)
ext4 Max elapsed 18.6000 ( 0.00%) 13.3400 ( 28.28%)
xfs Max elapsed 12.5600 ( 0.00%) 2.0900 ( 83.36%)
The XFS figure is a bit strange as it managed to avoid a worst case by
sheer luck but the average figures looked reasonable.
samples percentage
ext3 86107 0.9783 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext3 23833 0.2710 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext3 5036 0.0573 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
ext4 64566 0.8961 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
ext4 5322 0.0713 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
ext4 2869 0.0384 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 62126 1.7675 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
xfs 1904 0.0554 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
xfs 103 0.0030 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
btrfs 10655 0.1338 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
btrfs 2020 0.0273 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
btrfs 587 0.0079 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 59562 3.2628 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-vanilla mark_page_accessed
tmpfs 1210 0.0696 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 init_page_accessed
tmpfs 94 0.0054 vmlinux-3.15.0-rc4-accessed-v3r25 mark_page_accessed
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't run init_page_accessed() against an uninitialised pointer]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Prabhakar Lad <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Discarding buffers uses a bunch of atomic operations when discarding
buffers because ...... I can't think of a reason. Use a cmpxchg loop to
clear all the necessary flags. In most (all?) cases this will be a single
atomic operations.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move BUFFER_FLAGS_DISCARD into the .c file]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
