Re: [PATCH 02/10] xfs: convert quotacheck to use the new iwalk functions

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 09:23:47AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 09:58:52AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Convert quotacheck to use the new iwalk iterator to dig through the
> > > inodes.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c |   62 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
> > >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
> > > index aa6b6db3db0e..a5b2260406a8 100644
> > > --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
> > > +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm.c
> > ...
> > > @@ -1136,20 +1135,18 @@ xfs_qm_dqusage_adjust(
> > >  	 * rootino must have its resources accounted for, not so with the quota
> > >  	 * inodes.
> > >  	 */
> > > -	if (xfs_is_quota_inode(&mp->m_sb, ino)) {
> > > -		*res = BULKSTAT_RV_NOTHING;
> > > -		return -EINVAL;
> > > -	}
> > > +	if (xfs_is_quota_inode(&mp->m_sb, ino))
> > > +		return 0;
> > >  
> > >  	/*
> > >  	 * We don't _need_ to take the ilock EXCL here because quotacheck runs
> > >  	 * at mount time and therefore nobody will be racing chown/chproj.
> > >  	 */
> > > -	error = xfs_iget(mp, NULL, ino, XFS_IGET_DONTCACHE, 0, &ip);
> > > -	if (error) {
> > > -		*res = BULKSTAT_RV_NOTHING;
> > > +	error = xfs_iget(mp, tp, ino, XFS_IGET_DONTCACHE, 0, &ip);
> > 
> > I was wondering if we should start using IGET_UNTRUSTED here, but I
> > guess we're 1.) protected by quotacheck context and 2.) have the same
> > record validity semantics as the existing bulkstat walker. LGTM:
> 
> FWIW, I'd be wanting to go the other way with bulkstat. i.e. finding
> ways of reducing IGET_UNTRUSTED in bulkstat because it adds
> substantial CPU overhead during inode lookup because it has to look
> up the inobt to validate the inode number. i.e. we are locking the
> AGI and doing an inobt lookup on every inode we bulkstat because
> there is some time between the initial inobt lookup and the
> xfs_iget() call and that's when the inode chunk can get removed.
> 
> IOWs, we only need to validate that the inode buffer still contains
> inodes before we start instantiating inodes from it, but because we
> don't hold any locks across individual inode processing in bulkstat
> we have to revalidate that buffer contains inodes for every
> allocated inode in that buffer. If we had a way of passing a locked
> cluster buffer into xfs_iget to avoid having to look it up and read
> it, we could do a single inode cluster read after validating the
> inobt record is still valid, we could cycle all the remaining inodes
> through xfs_iget() without having to use IGET_UNTRUSTED to validate
> the inode cluster still contains valid inodes on every inode....
> 
> We still need to cycle inodes through the cache (so bulkstat is
> coherent with other inode operations), but this would substantially
> reduce the per-inode bulkstat CPU overhead, I think....

I'll think about this as an addendum to the series, because I suspect
that remodelling the existing users is going to be an entire series on
its own.  (IOWs, my brain is too tired for today)

--D

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> -- 
> Dave Chinner
> david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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