linux/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2000-2002,2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* Copyright (c) 2008 Dave Chinner
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
#include "xfs.h"
#include "xfs_fs.h"
#include "xfs_types.h"
#include "xfs_log.h"
#include "xfs_inum.h"
#include "xfs_trans.h"
#include "xfs_sb.h"
#include "xfs_ag.h"
#include "xfs_mount.h"
#include "xfs_trans_priv.h"
#include "xfs_error.h"
struct workqueue_struct *xfs_ail_wq; /* AIL workqueue */
#ifdef DEBUG
/*
* Check that the list is sorted as it should be.
*/
STATIC void
xfs_ail_check(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_log_item_t *lip)
{
xfs_log_item_t *prev_lip;
if (list_empty(&ailp->xa_ail))
return;
/*
* Check the next and previous entries are valid.
*/
ASSERT((lip->li_flags & XFS_LI_IN_AIL) != 0);
prev_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.prev, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
if (&prev_lip->li_ail != &ailp->xa_ail)
ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0);
prev_lip = list_entry(lip->li_ail.next, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
if (&prev_lip->li_ail != &ailp->xa_ail)
ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) >= 0);
#ifdef XFS_TRANS_DEBUG
/*
* Walk the list checking lsn ordering, and that every entry has the
* XFS_LI_IN_AIL flag set. This is really expensive, so only do it
* when specifically debugging the transaction subsystem.
*/
prev_lip = list_entry(&ailp->xa_ail, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
list_for_each_entry(lip, &ailp->xa_ail, li_ail) {
if (&prev_lip->li_ail != &ailp->xa_ail)
ASSERT(XFS_LSN_CMP(prev_lip->li_lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0);
ASSERT((lip->li_flags & XFS_LI_IN_AIL) != 0);
prev_lip = lip;
}
#endif /* XFS_TRANS_DEBUG */
}
#else /* !DEBUG */
#define xfs_ail_check(a,l)
#endif /* DEBUG */
/*
* Return a pointer to the first item in the AIL. If the AIL is empty, then
* return NULL.
*/
static xfs_log_item_t *
xfs_ail_min(
struct xfs_ail *ailp)
{
if (list_empty(&ailp->xa_ail))
return NULL;
return list_first_entry(&ailp->xa_ail, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
}
/*
* Return a pointer to the last item in the AIL. If the AIL is empty, then
* return NULL.
*/
static xfs_log_item_t *
xfs_ail_max(
struct xfs_ail *ailp)
{
if (list_empty(&ailp->xa_ail))
return NULL;
return list_entry(ailp->xa_ail.prev, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
}
/*
* Return a pointer to the item which follows the given item in the AIL. If
* the given item is the last item in the list, then return NULL.
*/
static xfs_log_item_t *
xfs_ail_next(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_log_item_t *lip)
{
if (lip->li_ail.next == &ailp->xa_ail)
return NULL;
return list_first_entry(&lip->li_ail, xfs_log_item_t, li_ail);
}
/*
* This is called by the log manager code to determine the LSN of the tail of
* the log. This is exactly the LSN of the first item in the AIL. If the AIL
* is empty, then this function returns 0.
*
* We need the AIL lock in order to get a coherent read of the lsn of the last
* item in the AIL.
*/
xfs_lsn_t
xfs_ail_min_lsn(
struct xfs_ail *ailp)
{
xfs_lsn_t lsn = 0;
xfs_log_item_t *lip;
spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
if (lip)
lsn = lip->li_lsn;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
return lsn;
}
/*
* Return the maximum lsn held in the AIL, or zero if the AIL is empty.
*/
static xfs_lsn_t
xfs_ail_max_lsn(
struct xfs_ail *ailp)
{
xfs_lsn_t lsn = 0;
xfs_log_item_t *lip;
spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
lip = xfs_ail_max(ailp);
if (lip)
lsn = lip->li_lsn;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
return lsn;
}
/*
* AIL traversal cursor initialisation.
*
* The cursor keeps track of where our current traversal is up
* to by tracking the next ƣtem in the list for us. However, for
* this to be safe, removing an object from the AIL needs to invalidate
* any cursor that points to it. hence the traversal cursor needs to
* be linked to the struct xfs_ail so that deletion can search all the
* active cursors for invalidation.
*
* We don't link the push cursor because it is embedded in the struct
* xfs_ail and hence easily findable.
*/
STATIC void
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_init(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur)
{
cur->item = NULL;
if (cur == &ailp->xa_cursors)
return;
cur->next = ailp->xa_cursors.next;
ailp->xa_cursors.next = cur;
}
/*
* Set the cursor to the next item, because when we look
* up the cursor the current item may have been freed.
*/
STATIC void
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_set(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur,
struct xfs_log_item *lip)
{
if (lip)
cur->item = xfs_ail_next(ailp, lip);
}
/*
* Get the next item in the traversal and advance the cursor.
* If the cursor was invalidated (inidicated by a lip of 1),
* restart the traversal.
*/
struct xfs_log_item *
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_next(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur)
{
struct xfs_log_item *lip = cur->item;
if ((__psint_t)lip & 1)
lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_set(ailp, cur, lip);
return lip;
}
/*
* Now that the traversal is complete, we need to remove the cursor
* from the list of traversing cursors. Avoid removing the embedded
* push cursor, but use the fact it is always present to make the
* list deletion simple.
*/
void
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_done(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *done)
{
struct xfs_ail_cursor *prev = NULL;
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur;
done->item = NULL;
if (done == &ailp->xa_cursors)
return;
prev = &ailp->xa_cursors;
for (cur = prev->next; cur; prev = cur, cur = prev->next) {
if (cur == done) {
prev->next = cur->next;
break;
}
}
ASSERT(cur);
}
/*
* Invalidate any cursor that is pointing to this item. This is
* called when an item is removed from the AIL. Any cursor pointing
* to this object is now invalid and the traversal needs to be
* terminated so it doesn't reference a freed object. We set the
* cursor item to a value of 1 so we can distinguish between an
* invalidation and the end of the list when getting the next item
* from the cursor.
*/
STATIC void
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_clear(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_log_item *lip)
{
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur;
/* need to search all cursors */
for (cur = &ailp->xa_cursors; cur; cur = cur->next) {
if (cur->item == lip)
cur->item = (struct xfs_log_item *)
((__psint_t)cur->item | 1);
}
}
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
/*
* Return the item in the AIL with the current lsn.
* Return the current tree generation number for use
* in calls to xfs_trans_next_ail().
*/
xfs_log_item_t *
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur,
xfs_lsn_t lsn)
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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{
xfs_log_item_t *lip;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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xfs_trans_ail_cursor_init(ailp, cur);
lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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if (lsn == 0)
goto out;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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list_for_each_entry(lip, &ailp->xa_ail, li_ail) {
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(lip->li_lsn, lsn) >= 0)
goto out;
}
lip = NULL;
out:
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_set(ailp, cur, lip);
return lip;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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}
/*
* splice the log item list into the AIL at the given LSN.
*/
static void
xfs_ail_splice(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct list_head *list,
xfs_lsn_t lsn)
{
xfs_log_item_t *next_lip;
/* If the list is empty, just insert the item. */
if (list_empty(&ailp->xa_ail)) {
list_splice(list, &ailp->xa_ail);
return;
}
list_for_each_entry_reverse(next_lip, &ailp->xa_ail, li_ail) {
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(next_lip->li_lsn, lsn) <= 0)
break;
}
ASSERT(&next_lip->li_ail == &ailp->xa_ail ||
XFS_LSN_CMP(next_lip->li_lsn, lsn) <= 0);
list_splice_init(list, &next_lip->li_ail);
}
/*
* Delete the given item from the AIL. Return a pointer to the item.
*/
static void
xfs_ail_delete(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_log_item_t *lip)
{
xfs_ail_check(ailp, lip);
list_del(&lip->li_ail);
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_clear(ailp, lip);
}
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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/*
* xfs_ail_worker does the work of pushing on the AIL. It will requeue itself
* to run at a later time if there is more work to do to complete the push.
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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*/
STATIC void
xfs_ail_worker(
struct work_struct *work)
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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{
struct xfs_ail *ailp = container_of(to_delayed_work(work),
struct xfs_ail, xa_work);
long tout;
xfs_lsn_t target = ailp->xa_target;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
xfs_lsn_t lsn;
xfs_log_item_t *lip;
int flush_log, count, stuck;
xfs_mount_t *mp = ailp->xa_mount;
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur = &ailp->xa_cursors;
int push_xfsbufd = 0;
spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_init(ailp, cur);
lip = xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first(ailp, cur, ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn);
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
if (!lip || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp)) {
/*
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
* AIL is empty or our push has reached the end.
*/
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_done(ailp, cur);
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = 0;
return;
}
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail);
/*
* While the item we are looking at is below the given threshold
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
* try to flush it out. We'd like not to stop until we've at least
* tried to push on everything in the AIL with an LSN less than
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
* the given threshold.
*
* However, we will stop after a certain number of pushes and wait
* for a reduced timeout to fire before pushing further. This
* prevents use from spinning when we can't do anything or there is
* lots of contention on the AIL lists.
*/
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
lsn = lip->li_lsn;
flush_log = stuck = count = 0;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
while ((XFS_LSN_CMP(lip->li_lsn, target) < 0)) {
int lock_result;
/*
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
* If we can lock the item without sleeping, unlock the AIL
* lock and flush the item. Then re-grab the AIL lock so we
* can look for the next item on the AIL. List changes are
* handled by the AIL lookup functions internally
*
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
* If we can't lock the item, either its holder will flush it
* or it is already being flushed or it is being relogged. In
* any of these case it is being taken care of and we can just
* skip to the next item in the list.
*/
lock_result = IOP_TRYLOCK(lip);
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
switch (lock_result) {
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
case XFS_ITEM_SUCCESS:
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_success);
IOP_PUSH(lip);
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = lsn;
break;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
case XFS_ITEM_PUSHBUF:
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_pushbuf);
IOP_PUSHBUF(lip);
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = lsn;
push_xfsbufd = 1;
break;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
case XFS_ITEM_PINNED:
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_pinned);
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
stuck++;
flush_log = 1;
break;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
case XFS_ITEM_LOCKED:
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_locked);
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = lsn;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
stuck++;
break;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
default:
ASSERT(0);
break;
}
spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
/* should we bother continuing? */
if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
break;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
ASSERT(mp->m_log);
count++;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
/*
* Are there too many items we can't do anything with?
* If we we are skipping too many items because we can't flush
* them or they are already being flushed, we back off and
* given them time to complete whatever operation is being
* done. i.e. remove pressure from the AIL while we can't make
* progress so traversals don't slow down further inserts and
* removals to/from the AIL.
*
* The value of 100 is an arbitrary magic number based on
* observation.
*/
if (stuck > 100)
break;
lip = xfs_trans_ail_cursor_next(ailp, cur);
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
if (lip == NULL)
break;
lsn = lip->li_lsn;
}
xfs_trans_ail_cursor_done(ailp, cur);
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
if (flush_log) {
/*
* If something we need to push out was pinned, then
* push out the log so it will become unpinned and
* move forward in the AIL.
*/
XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_flush);
xfs_log_force(mp, 0);
}
if (push_xfsbufd) {
/* we've got delayed write buffers to flush */
wake_up_process(mp->m_ddev_targp->bt_task);
}
/* assume we have more work to do in a short while */
tout = 10;
if (!count) {
/* We're past our target or empty, so idle */
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = 0;
/*
* Check for an updated push target before clearing the
* XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT. If the target changed, we've got more
* work to do. Wait a bit longer before starting that work.
*/
smp_rmb();
if (ailp->xa_target == target) {
clear_bit(XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT, &ailp->xa_flags);
return;
}
tout = 50;
} else if (XFS_LSN_CMP(lsn, target) >= 0) {
/*
* We reached the target so wait a bit longer for I/O to
* complete and remove pushed items from the AIL before we
* start the next scan from the start of the AIL.
*/
tout = 50;
ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn = 0;
} else if ((stuck * 100) / count > 90) {
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
/*
* Either there is a lot of contention on the AIL or we
* are stuck due to operations in progress. "Stuck" in this
* case is defined as >90% of the items we tried to push
* were stuck.
*
* Backoff a bit more to allow some I/O to complete before
* continuing from where we were.
*/
tout = 20;
}
/* There is more to do, requeue us. */
queue_delayed_work(xfs_syncd_wq, &ailp->xa_work,
msecs_to_jiffies(tout));
}
/*
* This routine is called to move the tail of the AIL forward. It does this by
* trying to flush items in the AIL whose lsns are below the given
* threshold_lsn.
*
* The push is run asynchronously in a workqueue, which means the caller needs
* to handle waiting on the async flush for space to become available.
* We don't want to interrupt any push that is in progress, hence we only queue
* work if we set the pushing bit approriately.
*
* We do this unlocked - we only need to know whether there is anything in the
* AIL at the time we are called. We don't need to access the contents of
* any of the objects, so the lock is not needed.
*/
void
xfs_ail_push(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_lsn_t threshold_lsn)
{
xfs_log_item_t *lip;
lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
if (!lip || XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ailp->xa_mount) ||
XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->xa_target) <= 0)
return;
/*
* Ensure that the new target is noticed in push code before it clears
* the XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT.
*/
smp_wmb();
ailp->xa_target = threshold_lsn;
if (!test_and_set_bit(XFS_AIL_PUSHING_BIT, &ailp->xa_flags))
queue_delayed_work(xfs_syncd_wq, &ailp->xa_work, 0);
}
/*
* Push out all items in the AIL immediately
*/
void
xfs_ail_push_all(
struct xfs_ail *ailp)
{
xfs_lsn_t threshold_lsn = xfs_ail_max_lsn(ailp);
if (threshold_lsn)
xfs_ail_push(ailp, threshold_lsn);
}
/*
* This is to be called when an item is unlocked that may have
* been in the AIL. It will wake up the first member of the AIL
* wait list if this item's unlocking might allow it to progress.
* If the item is in the AIL, then we need to get the AIL lock
* while doing our checking so we don't race with someone going
* to sleep waiting for this event in xfs_trans_push_ail().
*/
void
xfs_trans_unlocked_item(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_log_item_t *lip)
{
xfs_log_item_t *min_lip;
/*
* If we're forcibly shutting down, we may have
* unlocked log items arbitrarily. The last thing
* we want to do is to move the tail of the log
* over some potentially valid data.
*/
if (!(lip->li_flags & XFS_LI_IN_AIL) ||
XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ailp->xa_mount)) {
return;
}
/*
* This is the one case where we can call into xfs_ail_min()
* without holding the AIL lock because we only care about the
* case where we are at the tail of the AIL. If the object isn't
* at the tail, it doesn't matter what result we get back. This
* is slightly racy because since we were just unlocked, we could
* go to sleep between the call to xfs_ail_min and the call to
* xfs_log_move_tail, have someone else lock us, commit to us disk,
* move us out of the tail of the AIL, and then we wake up. However,
* the call to xfs_log_move_tail() doesn't do anything if there's
* not enough free space to wake people up so we're safe calling it.
*/
min_lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
if (min_lip == lip)
xfs_log_move_tail(ailp->xa_mount, 1);
} /* xfs_trans_unlocked_item */
xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commit When inserting items into the AIL from the transaction committed callbacks, we take the AIL lock for every single item that is to be inserted. For a CIL checkpoint commit, this can be tens of thousands of individual inserts, yet almost all of the items will be inserted at the same point in the AIL because they have the same index. To reduce the overhead and contention on the AIL lock for such operations, introduce a "bulk insert" operation which allows a list of log items with the same LSN to be inserted in a single operation via a list splice. To do this, we need to pre-sort the log items being committed into a temporary list for insertion. The complexity is that not every log item will end up with the same LSN, and not every item is actually inserted into the AIL. Items that don't match the commit LSN will be inserted and unpinned as per the current one-at-a-time method (relatively rare), while items that are not to be inserted will be unpinned and freed immediately. Items that are to be inserted at the given commit lsn are placed in a temporary array and inserted into the AIL in bulk each time the array fills up. As a result of this, we trade off AIL hold time for a significant reduction in traffic. lock_stat output shows that the worst case hold time is unchanged, but contention from AIL inserts drops by an order of magnitude and the number of lock traversal decreases significantly. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-12-20 01:02:19 +00:00
/*
* xfs_trans_ail_update - bulk AIL insertion operation.
*
* @xfs_trans_ail_update takes an array of log items that all need to be
* positioned at the same LSN in the AIL. If an item is not in the AIL, it will
* be added. Otherwise, it will be repositioned by removing it and re-adding
* it to the AIL. If we move the first item in the AIL, update the log tail to
* match the new minimum LSN in the AIL.
*
* This function takes the AIL lock once to execute the update operations on
* all the items in the array, and as such should not be called with the AIL
* lock held. As a result, once we have the AIL lock, we need to check each log
* item LSN to confirm it needs to be moved forward in the AIL.
*
* To optimise the insert operation, we delete all the items from the AIL in
* the first pass, moving them into a temporary list, then splice the temporary
* list into the correct position in the AIL. This avoids needing to do an
* insert operation on every item.
*
* This function must be called with the AIL lock held. The lock is dropped
* before returning.
*/
void
xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_log_item **log_items,
int nr_items,
xfs_lsn_t lsn) __releases(ailp->xa_lock)
{
xfs_log_item_t *mlip;
xfs_lsn_t tail_lsn;
int mlip_changed = 0;
int i;
LIST_HEAD(tmp);
mlip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
for (i = 0; i < nr_items; i++) {
struct xfs_log_item *lip = log_items[i];
if (lip->li_flags & XFS_LI_IN_AIL) {
/* check if we really need to move the item */
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(lsn, lip->li_lsn) <= 0)
continue;
xfs_ail_delete(ailp, lip);
if (mlip == lip)
mlip_changed = 1;
} else {
lip->li_flags |= XFS_LI_IN_AIL;
}
lip->li_lsn = lsn;
list_add(&lip->li_ail, &tmp);
}
xfs_ail_splice(ailp, &tmp, lsn);
if (!mlip_changed) {
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
return;
}
/*
* It is not safe to access mlip after the AIL lock is dropped, so we
* must get a copy of li_lsn before we do so. This is especially
* important on 32-bit platforms where accessing and updating 64-bit
* values like li_lsn is not atomic.
*/
mlip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
tail_lsn = mlip->li_lsn;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
xfs_log_move_tail(ailp->xa_mount, tail_lsn);
}
/*
* xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk - remove multiple log items from the AIL
*
* @xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk takes an array of log items that all need to
* removed from the AIL. The caller is already holding the AIL lock, and done
* all the checks necessary to ensure the items passed in via @log_items are
* ready for deletion. This includes checking that the items are in the AIL.
*
* For each log item to be removed, unlink it from the AIL, clear the IN_AIL
* flag from the item and reset the item's lsn to 0. If we remove the first
* item in the AIL, update the log tail to match the new minimum LSN in the
* AIL.
*
* This function will not drop the AIL lock until all items are removed from
* the AIL to minimise the amount of lock traffic on the AIL. This does not
* greatly increase the AIL hold time, but does significantly reduce the amount
* of traffic on the lock, especially during IO completion.
*
* This function must be called with the AIL lock held. The lock is dropped
* before returning.
*/
void
xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_log_item **log_items,
int nr_items) __releases(ailp->xa_lock)
{
xfs_log_item_t *mlip;
xfs_lsn_t tail_lsn;
int mlip_changed = 0;
int i;
mlip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
for (i = 0; i < nr_items; i++) {
struct xfs_log_item *lip = log_items[i];
if (!(lip->li_flags & XFS_LI_IN_AIL)) {
struct xfs_mount *mp = ailp->xa_mount;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
if (!XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp)) {
xfs_alert_tag(mp, XFS_PTAG_AILDELETE,
"%s: attempting to delete a log item that is not in the AIL",
__func__);
xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE);
}
return;
}
xfs_ail_delete(ailp, lip);
lip->li_flags &= ~XFS_LI_IN_AIL;
lip->li_lsn = 0;
if (mlip == lip)
mlip_changed = 1;
}
if (!mlip_changed) {
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
return;
}
/*
* It is not safe to access mlip after the AIL lock is dropped, so we
* must get a copy of li_lsn before we do so. This is especially
* important on 32-bit platforms where accessing and updating 64-bit
* values like li_lsn is not atomic. It is possible we've emptied the
* AIL here, so if that is the case, pass an LSN of 0 to the tail move.
*/
mlip = xfs_ail_min(ailp);
tail_lsn = mlip ? mlip->li_lsn : 0;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
xfs_log_move_tail(ailp->xa_mount, tail_lsn);
}
/*
* The active item list (AIL) is a doubly linked list of log
* items sorted by ascending lsn. The base of the list is
* a forw/back pointer pair embedded in the xfs mount structure.
* The base is initialized with both pointers pointing to the
* base. This case always needs to be distinguished, because
* the base has no lsn to look at. We almost always insert
* at the end of the list, so on inserts we search from the
* end of the list to find where the new item belongs.
*/
/*
* Initialize the doubly linked list to point only to itself.
*/
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
int
xfs_trans_ail_init(
xfs_mount_t *mp)
{
struct xfs_ail *ailp;
ailp = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(struct xfs_ail), KM_MAYFAIL);
if (!ailp)
return ENOMEM;
ailp->xa_mount = mp;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ailp->xa_ail);
spin_lock_init(&ailp->xa_lock);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ailp->xa_work, xfs_ail_worker);
mp->m_ail = ailp;
return 0;
[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-05 01:13:32 +00:00
}
void
xfs_trans_ail_destroy(
xfs_mount_t *mp)
{
struct xfs_ail *ailp = mp->m_ail;
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ailp->xa_work);
kmem_free(ailp);
}