Re: [External] Re: [PATCH] cachefiles: make on-demand request distribution fairer

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 05:16:25PM +0800, Xin Yin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 3:14 PM Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Yin,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 02:52:00PM +0800, Xin Yin wrote:
> > > For now, enqueuing and dequeuing on-demand requests all start from
> > > idx 0, this makes request distribution unfair. In the weighty
> > > concurrent I/O scenario, the request stored in higher idx will starve.
> > >
> > > Searching requests cyclically in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read,
> > > makes distribution fairer.
> >
> > Yeah, thanks for the catch.  The previous approach could cause somewhat
> > unfairness and make some requests starving... But we don't need strict
> > FIFO here.
> >
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Yongqing Li <liyongqing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Xin Yin <yinxin.x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/cachefiles/internal.h |  1 +
> > >  fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 12 +++++++++---
> > >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > index 6cba2c6de2f9..2ad58c465208 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
> > > @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ struct cachefiles_cache {
> > >       char                            *tag;           /* cache binding tag */
> > >       refcount_t                      unbind_pincount;/* refcount to do daemon unbind */
> > >       struct xarray                   reqs;           /* xarray of pending on-demand requests */
> > > +     unsigned long                   req_id_next;
> >
> >         unsigned long                   ondemand_req_id_next; ?
> Hi Xiang,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed review , whether "ondemand_req_id_next" is a
> little long ? struct cachefiles_cache only holds on-demand requests ,
> so I think "req_id_next" will not cause ambiguity. Does this make
> sense?

If David is fine with "req_id_next", I'm okay with that as well.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Thanks,
> Xin Yin
> >
> > Otherwise it looks good to me,
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gao Xiang
> >
> > >       struct xarray                   ondemand_ids;   /* xarray for ondemand_id allocation */
> > >       u32                             ondemand_id_next;
> > >  };
> > > diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > index 1fee702d5529..247961d65369 100644
> > > --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c
> > > @@ -238,14 +238,19 @@ ssize_t cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
> > >       unsigned long id = 0;
> > >       size_t n;
> > >       int ret = 0;
> > > -     XA_STATE(xas, &cache->reqs, 0);
> > > +     XA_STATE(xas, &cache->reqs, cache->req_id_next);
> > >
> > >       /*
> > > -      * Search for a request that has not ever been processed, to prevent
> > > -      * requests from being processed repeatedly.
> > > +      * Cyclically search for a request that has not ever been processed,
> > > +      * to prevent requests from being processed repeatedly, and make
> > > +      * request distribution fair.
> > >        */
> > >       xa_lock(&cache->reqs);
> > >       req = xas_find_marked(&xas, UINT_MAX, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > +     if (!req && cache->req_id_next > 0) {
> > > +             xas_set(&xas, 0);
> > > +             req = xas_find_marked(&xas, cache->req_id_next - 1, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > +     }
> > >       if (!req) {
> > >               xa_unlock(&cache->reqs);
> > >               return 0;
> > > @@ -260,6 +265,7 @@ ssize_t cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
> > >       }
> > >
> > >       xas_clear_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);
> > > +     cache->req_id_next = xas.xa_index + 1;
> > >       xa_unlock(&cache->reqs);
> > >
> > >       id = xas.xa_index;
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
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