Enhancement. Released blocks don't become available until after the next commit (for crash resilience). Prior to this patch commits were only triggered by a message to the target or a REQ_{FLUSH,FUA} bio. This allowed far too big a position to build up. The interval is hard-coded to 1 second. This is a sensible setting. I'm not making this user configurable, since there isn't much to be gained by tweaking this - and a lot lost by setting it far too high. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c index a1b274b..a3a66af 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #define DEFERRED_SET_SIZE 64 #define MAPPING_POOL_SIZE 1024 #define PRISON_CELLS 1024 +#define COMMIT_PERIOD HZ /* * The block size of the device holding pool data must be @@ -528,8 +529,10 @@ struct pool { struct workqueue_struct *wq; struct work_struct worker; + struct delayed_work waker; unsigned ref_count; + unsigned long last_commit_jiffies; spinlock_t lock; struct bio_list deferred_bios; @@ -1411,6 +1414,12 @@ static void process_bio(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio) } } +static int need_commit_due_to_time(struct pool *pool) +{ + return jiffies < pool->last_commit_jiffies || + jiffies > pool->last_commit_jiffies + COMMIT_PERIOD; +} + static void process_deferred_bios(struct pool *pool) { unsigned long flags; @@ -1458,7 +1467,7 @@ static void process_deferred_bios(struct pool *pool) bio_list_init(&pool->deferred_flush_bios); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); - if (bio_list_empty(&bios)) + if (bio_list_empty(&bios) && !need_commit_due_to_time(pool)) return; r = dm_pool_commit_metadata(pool->pmd); @@ -1469,6 +1478,7 @@ static void process_deferred_bios(struct pool *pool) bio_io_error(bio); return; } + pool->last_commit_jiffies = jiffies; while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bios))) generic_make_request(bio); @@ -1483,6 +1493,17 @@ static void do_worker(struct work_struct *ws) process_deferred_bios(pool); } +/* + * We want to commit periodically so that not too much + * unwritten data builds up. + */ +static void do_waker(struct work_struct *ws) +{ + struct pool *pool = container_of(to_delayed_work(ws), struct pool, waker); + wake_worker(pool); + queue_delayed_work(pool->wq, &pool->waker, COMMIT_PERIOD); +} + /*----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* @@ -1709,6 +1730,7 @@ static struct pool *pool_create(struct mapped_device *pool_md, } INIT_WORK(&pool->worker, do_worker); + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&pool->waker, do_waker); spin_lock_init(&pool->lock); bio_list_init(&pool->deferred_bios); bio_list_init(&pool->deferred_flush_bios); @@ -1737,6 +1759,7 @@ static struct pool *pool_create(struct mapped_device *pool_md, goto bad_endio_hook_pool; } pool->ref_count = 1; + pool->last_commit_jiffies = jiffies; pool->pool_md = pool_md; pool->md_dev = metadata_dev; __pool_table_insert(pool); @@ -2072,7 +2095,7 @@ static void pool_resume(struct dm_target *ti) __requeue_bios(pool); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags); - wake_worker(pool); + do_waker(&pool->waker.work); } static void pool_postsuspend(struct dm_target *ti) @@ -2081,6 +2104,7 @@ static void pool_postsuspend(struct dm_target *ti) struct pool_c *pt = ti->private; struct pool *pool = pt->pool; + cancel_delayed_work(&pool->waker); flush_workqueue(pool->wq); r = dm_pool_commit_metadata(pool->pmd); -- 1.7.9.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel