Re: [PATCH 17/28] xfs: synchronous AIL pushing

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On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 10:46:07AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Provide an interface to push the AIL to a target LSN and wait for
> the tail of the log to move past that LSN. This is used to wait for
> all items older than a specific LSN to either be cleaned (written
> back) or relogged to a higher LSN in the AIL. The primary use for
> this is to allow IO free inode reclaim throttling.
> 
> Factor the common AIL deletion code that does all the wakeups into a
> helper so we only have one copy of this somewhat tricky code to
> interface with all the wakeups necessary when the LSN of the log
> tail changes.
> 

The above paragraph doesn't seem applicable to this patch. With that
fixed:

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

> xfs_ail_push_sync() is temporary infrastructure to facilitate
> non-blocking, IO-less inode reclaim throttling that allows further
> structural changes to be made. Once those structural changes are
> made, the need for this function goes away and it is removed. In
> essence, it is only provided to ensure git bisects don't break while
> the changes to the reclaim algorithms are in progress.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c  | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h |  2 ++
>  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> index 685a21cd24c0..3e1d0e1439e2 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_ail.c
> @@ -662,6 +662,36 @@ xfs_ail_push_all(
>  		xfs_ail_push(ailp, threshold_lsn);
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * Push the AIL to a specific lsn and wait for it to complete.
> + */
> +void
> +xfs_ail_push_sync(
> +	struct xfs_ail		*ailp,
> +	xfs_lsn_t		threshold_lsn)
> +{
> +	struct xfs_log_item	*lip;
> +	DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> +
> +	spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +	while ((lip = xfs_ail_min(ailp)) != NULL) {
> +		prepare_to_wait(&ailp->ail_push, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> +		if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(ailp->ail_mount) ||
> +		    XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, lip->li_lsn) < 0)
> +			break;
> +		if (XFS_LSN_CMP(threshold_lsn, ailp->ail_target) > 0)
> +			ailp->ail_target = threshold_lsn;
> +		wake_up_process(ailp->ail_task);
> +		spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +		schedule();
> +		spin_lock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +	}
> +	spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> +
> +	finish_wait(&ailp->ail_push, &wait);
> +}
> +
> +
>  /*
>   * Push out all items in the AIL immediately and wait until the AIL is empty.
>   */
> @@ -702,6 +732,7 @@ xfs_ail_update_finish(
>  	if (!XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp))
>  		xlog_assign_tail_lsn_locked(mp);
>  
> +	wake_up_all(&ailp->ail_push);
>  	if (list_empty(&ailp->ail_head))
>  		wake_up_all(&ailp->ail_empty);
>  	spin_unlock(&ailp->ail_lock);
> @@ -858,6 +889,7 @@ xfs_trans_ail_init(
>  	spin_lock_init(&ailp->ail_lock);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ailp->ail_buf_list);
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&ailp->ail_empty);
> +	init_waitqueue_head(&ailp->ail_push);
>  
>  	ailp->ail_task = kthread_run(xfsaild, ailp, "xfsaild/%s",
>  			ailp->ail_mount->m_fsname);
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> index 35655eac01a6..1b6f4bbd47c0 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ struct xfs_ail {
>  	int			ail_log_flush;
>  	struct list_head	ail_buf_list;
>  	wait_queue_head_t	ail_empty;
> +	wait_queue_head_t	ail_push;
>  };
>  
>  /*
> @@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ xfs_trans_ail_remove(
>  }
>  
>  void			xfs_ail_push(struct xfs_ail *, xfs_lsn_t);
> +void			xfs_ail_push_sync(struct xfs_ail *, xfs_lsn_t);
>  void			xfs_ail_push_all(struct xfs_ail *);
>  void			xfs_ail_push_all_sync(struct xfs_ail *);
>  struct xfs_log_item	*xfs_ail_min(struct xfs_ail  *ailp);
> -- 
> 2.24.0.rc0
> 





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