> patched trace-tar-dd-ext4-2.6.39-rc3+
> flush-8:0-3048 [004] 1929.981734: writeback_queue_io: bdi 8:0: older=4296600898 age=2 enqueue=13227
> vanilla trace-tar-dd-ext4-2.6.39-rc3
> flush-8:0-2911 [004] 77.158312: writeback_queue_io: bdi 8:0: older=0 age=-1 enqueue=18938
> flush-8:0-2911 [000] 82.461064: writeback_queue_io: bdi 8:0: older=0 age=-1 enqueue=6957
It looks too much to move 13227 and 18938 inodes at once. So I tried
arbitrarily limiting the max move number to 1000 and it helps reduce
the lock hold time and contentions a lot.
---
Subject: writeback: limit number of moved inodes in queue_io()
Date: Fri May 06 13:34:08 CST 2011
Only move 1000 inodes from b_dirty to b_io at one time. This reduces
lock hold time and lock contentions by many times in a simple dd+tar
workload in a 8p test box. This workload was observed to move 10000+
inodes in one shot on ext4 which was obviously too much.
class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total acq-b
ounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
inode_wb_list_lock: 2063 2065 0.12 2648.66 5948.99
27475 943778 0.09 2704.76 498340.24
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 89 [<ffffffff8115cf3a>] sync_inode+0x28/0x5f
inode_wb_list_lock 38 [<ffffffff8115ccab>] inode_wait_for_writeback+0xa8/0xc6
inode_wb_list_lock 629 [<ffffffff8115da35>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 842 [<ffffffff8115d334>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157
------------------
inode_wb_list_lock 891 [<ffffffff8115ce3e>] writeback_single_inode+0x175/0x249
inode_wb_list_lock 13 [<ffffffff8115dc4e>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3a/0x143
inode_wb_list_lock 499 [<ffffffff8115da35>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
inode_wb_list_lock 617 [<ffffffff8115d334>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock: 842 842 0.14 101.10 1013.34
20489 970892 0.09 234.11 509829.79
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 275 [<ffffffff8115db09>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 114 [<ffffffff8115cdd3>] writeback_single_inode+0x18a/0x27e
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 56 [<ffffffff8115cc29>] inode_wait_for_writeback+0xac/0xcc
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 132 [<ffffffff8115cf2a>] sync_inode+0x63/0xa2
------------------------
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2 [<ffffffff8115dfea>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x85
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 33 [<ffffffff8115cf2a>] sync_inode+0x63/0xa2
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 9 [<ffffffff8115cc29>] inode_wait_for_writeback+0xac/0xcc
&(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 430 [<ffffffff8115cdd3>] writeback_single_inode+0x18a/0x27e
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- linux-next.orig/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-06 13:32:41.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-next/fs/fs-writeback.c 2011-05-06 13:34:08.000000000 +0800
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ static int move_expired_inodes(struct li
sb = inode->i_sb;
list_move(&inode->i_wb_list, &tmp);
moved++;
+ if (unlikely(moved >= 1000)) /* limit spinlock hold time */
+ break;
}
/* just one sb in list, splice to dispatch_queue and we're done */
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