Hi Hannes,
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:47:44PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:01:32AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 01:10:39PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > shmem mappings already contain exceptional entries where swap slot
> > > information is remembered.
> > >
> > > To be able to store eviction information for regular page cache,
> > > prepare every site dealing with the radix trees directly to handle
> > > entries other than pages.
> > >
> > > The common lookup functions will filter out non-page entries and
> > > return NULL for page cache holes, just as before. But provide a raw
> > > version of the API which returns non-page entries as well, and switch
> > > shmem over to use it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks, Minchan!
>
> > > @@ -890,6 +973,73 @@ repeat:
> > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_or_create_page);
> > >
> > > /**
> > > + * __find_get_pages - gang pagecache lookup
> > > + * @mapping: The address_space to search
> > > + * @start: The starting page index
> > > + * @nr_pages: The maximum number of pages
> > > + * @pages: Where the resulting pages are placed
> >
> > where is @indices?
>
> Fixed :)
>
> > > @@ -894,6 +894,53 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pagevec_lru_add);
> > >
> > > /**
> > > * pagevec_lookup - gang pagecache lookup
> >
> > __pagevec_lookup?
> >
> > > + * @pvec: Where the resulting entries are placed
> > > + * @mapping: The address_space to search
> > > + * @start: The starting entry index
> > > + * @nr_pages: The maximum number of entries
> >
> > missing @indices?
> >
> > > + *
> > > + * pagevec_lookup() will search for and return a group of up to
> > > + * @nr_pages pages and shadow entries in the mapping. All entries are
> > > + * placed in @pvec. pagevec_lookup() takes a reference against actual
> > > + * pages in @pvec.
> > > + *
> > > + * The search returns a group of mapping-contiguous entries with
> > > + * ascending indexes. There may be holes in the indices due to
> > > + * not-present entries.
> > > + *
> > > + * pagevec_lookup() returns the number of entries which were found.
> >
> > __pagevec_lookup
>
> Yikes, all three fixed.
>
> > > @@ -22,6 +22,22 @@
> > > #include <linux/cleancache.h>
> > > #include "internal.h"
> > >
> > > +static void clear_exceptional_entry(struct address_space *mapping,
> > > + pgoff_t index, void *entry)
> > > +{
> > > + /* Handled by shmem itself */
> > > + if (shmem_mapping(mapping))
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
> > > + /*
> > > + * Regular page slots are stabilized by the page lock even
> > > + * without the tree itself locked. These unlocked entries
> > > + * need verification under the tree lock.
> > > + */
> >
> > Could you explain why repeated spin_lock with irq disabled isn't problem
> > in truncation path?
>
> To modify the cache tree, we have to take the IRQ-safe tree_lock, this
> is no different than removing a page (see truncate_complete_page).
I meant we can do batch irq_[lock|unlock] part with periodic irq release
because clear_exceptional_entry is always called with gang pagecache
lookup.
Just a comment about optimiztation so it shouldn't be critical for merging
and we could do in future if it's really problem for scalability.
--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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