The patch titled
fuse: limit queued background requests
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fuse-limit-queued-background-requests.patch
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Subject: fuse: limit queued background requests
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Libfuse basically creates a new thread for each new request. This is fine for
synchronous requests, which are naturally limited. However background
requests (especially writepage) can cause a thread creation storm.
To avoid this, limit the number of background requests available to userspace.
This is done by introducing another queue for background requests, and a
counter for the number of "active" requests, which are currently available for
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dev.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 6 ++
fs/fuse/inode.c | 1
3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/fuse/dev.c~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests fs/fuse/dev.c
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests
+++ a/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -201,6 +201,55 @@ void fuse_put_request(struct fuse_conn *
}
}
+static unsigned len_args(unsigned numargs, struct fuse_arg *args)
+{
+ unsigned nbytes = 0;
+ unsigned i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < numargs; i++)
+ nbytes += args[i].size;
+
+ return nbytes;
+}
+
+static u64 fuse_get_unique(struct fuse_conn *fc)
+{
+ fc->reqctr++;
+ /* zero is special */
+ if (fc->reqctr == 0)
+ fc->reqctr = 1;
+
+ return fc->reqctr;
+}
+
+static void queue_request(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
+{
+ req->in.h.unique = fuse_get_unique(fc);
+ req->in.h.len = sizeof(struct fuse_in_header) +
+ len_args(req->in.numargs, (struct fuse_arg *) req->in.args);
+ list_add_tail(&req->list, &fc->pending);
+ req->state = FUSE_REQ_PENDING;
+ if (!req->waiting) {
+ req->waiting = 1;
+ atomic_inc(&fc->num_waiting);
+ }
+ wake_up(&fc->waitq);
+ kill_fasync(&fc->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
+}
+
+static void flush_bg_queue(struct fuse_conn *fc)
+{
+ while (fc->active_background < FUSE_MAX_BACKGROUND &&
+ !list_empty(&fc->bg_queue)) {
+ struct fuse_req *req;
+
+ req = list_entry(fc->bg_queue.next, struct fuse_req, list);
+ list_del(&req->list);
+ fc->active_background++;
+ queue_request(fc, req);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* This function is called when a request is finished. Either a reply
* has arrived or it was aborted (and not yet sent) or some error
@@ -229,6 +278,8 @@ static void request_end(struct fuse_conn
clear_bdi_congested(&fc->bdi, WRITE);
}
fc->num_background--;
+ fc->active_background--;
+ flush_bg_queue(fc);
}
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
wake_up(&req->waitq);
@@ -320,42 +371,6 @@ static void request_wait_answer(struct f
}
}
-static unsigned len_args(unsigned numargs, struct fuse_arg *args)
-{
- unsigned nbytes = 0;
- unsigned i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < numargs; i++)
- nbytes += args[i].size;
-
- return nbytes;
-}
-
-static u64 fuse_get_unique(struct fuse_conn *fc)
- {
- fc->reqctr++;
- /* zero is special */
- if (fc->reqctr == 0)
- fc->reqctr = 1;
-
- return fc->reqctr;
-}
-
-static void queue_request(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
-{
- req->in.h.unique = fuse_get_unique(fc);
- req->in.h.len = sizeof(struct fuse_in_header) +
- len_args(req->in.numargs, (struct fuse_arg *) req->in.args);
- list_add_tail(&req->list, &fc->pending);
- req->state = FUSE_REQ_PENDING;
- if (!req->waiting) {
- req->waiting = 1;
- atomic_inc(&fc->num_waiting);
- }
- wake_up(&fc->waitq);
- kill_fasync(&fc->fasync, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
-}
-
void request_send(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
{
req->isreply = 1;
@@ -375,20 +390,26 @@ void request_send(struct fuse_conn *fc,
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
}
+static void request_send_nowait_locked(struct fuse_conn *fc,
+ struct fuse_req *req)
+{
+ req->background = 1;
+ fc->num_background++;
+ if (fc->num_background == FUSE_MAX_BACKGROUND)
+ fc->blocked = 1;
+ if (fc->num_background == FUSE_CONGESTION_THRESHOLD) {
+ set_bdi_congested(&fc->bdi, READ);
+ set_bdi_congested(&fc->bdi, WRITE);
+ }
+ list_add_tail(&req->list, &fc->bg_queue);
+ flush_bg_queue(fc);
+}
+
static void request_send_nowait(struct fuse_conn *fc, struct fuse_req *req)
{
spin_lock(&fc->lock);
if (fc->connected) {
- req->background = 1;
- fc->num_background++;
- if (fc->num_background == FUSE_MAX_BACKGROUND)
- fc->blocked = 1;
- if (fc->num_background == FUSE_CONGESTION_THRESHOLD) {
- set_bdi_congested(&fc->bdi, READ);
- set_bdi_congested(&fc->bdi, WRITE);
- }
-
- queue_request(fc, req);
+ request_send_nowait_locked(fc, req);
spin_unlock(&fc->lock);
} else {
req->out.h.error = -ENOTCONN;
diff -puN fs/fuse/fuse_i.h~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests
+++ a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -296,6 +296,12 @@ struct fuse_conn {
/** Number of requests currently in the background */
unsigned num_background;
+ /** Number of background requests currently queued for userspace */
+ unsigned active_background;
+
+ /** The list of background requests set aside for later queuing */
+ struct list_head bg_queue;
+
/** Pending interrupts */
struct list_head interrupts;
diff -puN fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests fs/fuse/inode.c
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-limit-queued-background-requests
+++ a/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -465,6 +465,7 @@ static struct fuse_conn *new_conn(void)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->processing);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->io);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->interrupts);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fc->bg_queue);
atomic_set(&fc->num_waiting, 0);
fc->bdi.ra_pages = (VM_MAX_READAHEAD * 1024) / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
fc->bdi.unplug_io_fn = default_unplug_io_fn;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-x86.patch
fuse-fix-attribute-caching-after-create.patch
fuse-save-space-in-struct-fuse_req.patch
fuse-limit-queued-background-requests.patch
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