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writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage

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sync(2) is performed in two stages: the WB_SYNC_NONE sync and the
WB_SYNC_ALL sync. Identify the first stage with .tagged_writepages and
do livelock prevention for it, too.

Jan's commit f446daaea9 ("mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance
using page tagging") is a partial fix in that it only fixed the
WB_SYNC_ALL phase livelock.

Although ext4 is tested to no longer livelock with commit f446daaea9,
it may due to some "redirty_tail() after pages_skipped" effect which
is by no means a guarantee for _all_ the file systems.

Note that writeback_inodes_sb() is called by not only sync(), they are
treated the same because the other callers also need livelock prevention.

Impact:  It changes the order in which pages/inodes are synced to disk.
Now in the WB_SYNC_NONE stage, it won't proceed to write the next inode
until finished with the current inode.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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Wu Fengguang 2010-06-06 10:38:15 -06:00
parent 59c5f46fbe
commit 6e6938b6d3
4 changed files with 14 additions and 12 deletions
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4
fs/ext4/inode.c
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@ -2741,7 +2741,7 @@ static int write_cache_pages_da(struct address_space *mapping,
index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; index = wbc->range_start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; end = wbc->range_end >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
else else
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
@ -2973,7 +2973,7 @@ static int ext4_da_writepages(struct address_space *mapping,
} }
retry: retry:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
while (!ret && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) { while (!ret && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {

9
fs/fs-writeback.c
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@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct wb_writeback_work {
long nr_pages; long nr_pages;
struct super_block *sb; struct super_block *sb;
enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode; enum writeback_sync_modes sync_mode;
unsigned int tagged_writepages:1;
unsigned int for_kupdate:1; unsigned int for_kupdate:1;
unsigned int range_cyclic:1; unsigned int range_cyclic:1;
unsigned int for_background:1; unsigned int for_background:1;
@ -650,6 +651,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
{ {
struct writeback_control wbc = { struct writeback_control wbc = {
.sync_mode = work->sync_mode, .sync_mode = work->sync_mode,
.tagged_writepages = work->tagged_writepages,
.older_than_this = NULL, .older_than_this = NULL,
.for_kupdate = work->for_kupdate, .for_kupdate = work->for_kupdate,
.for_background = work->for_background, .for_background = work->for_background,
@ -657,7 +659,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
}; };
unsigned long oldest_jif; unsigned long oldest_jif;
long wrote = 0; long wrote = 0;
long write_chunk; long write_chunk = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
struct inode *inode; struct inode *inode;
if (wbc.for_kupdate) { if (wbc.for_kupdate) {
@ -683,9 +685,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
* (quickly) tag currently dirty pages * (quickly) tag currently dirty pages
* (maybe slowly) sync all tagged pages * (maybe slowly) sync all tagged pages
*/ */
if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE) if (wbc.sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc.tagged_writepages)
write_chunk = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES;
else
write_chunk = LONG_MAX; write_chunk = LONG_MAX;
wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */ wbc.wb_start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
@ -1190,6 +1190,7 @@ void writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long nr)
struct wb_writeback_work work = { struct wb_writeback_work work = {
.sb = sb, .sb = sb,
.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE, .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
.tagged_writepages = 1,
.done = &done, .done = &done,
.nr_pages = nr, .nr_pages = nr,
}; };

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include/linux/writeback.h
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@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ struct writeback_control {
unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */ unsigned encountered_congestion:1; /* An output: a queue is full */
unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */ unsigned for_kupdate:1; /* A kupdate writeback */
unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */ unsigned for_background:1; /* A background writeback */
unsigned tagged_writepages:1; /* tag-and-write to avoid livelock */
unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */ unsigned for_reclaim:1; /* Invoked from the page allocator */
unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */ unsigned range_cyclic:1; /* range_start is cyclic */
unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */ unsigned more_io:1; /* more io to be dispatched */

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mm/page-writeback.c
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@ -892,12 +892,12 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
range_whole = 1; range_whole = 1;
cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */ cycled = 1; /* ignore range_cyclic tests */
} }
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE; tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE;
else else
tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY; tag = PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY;
retry: retry:
if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL || wbc->tagged_writepages)
tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end); tag_pages_for_writeback(mapping, index, end);
done_index = index; done_index = index;
while (!done && (index <= end)) { while (!done && (index <= end)) {