On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 10:20 AM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 在 2023/05/29 10:08, Xiao Ni 写道:
> > Hi Kuai
> >
> > There is a limitation of the memory in your test. But for most
> > situations, customers should not set this. Can this change introduce a
> > performance regression against other situations?
>
> Noted that this limitation is just to triggered writeback as soon as
> possible in the test, and it's 100% sure real situations can trigger
> dirty pages write back asynchronously and continue to produce new dirty
> pages.
Hi
I'm confused here. If we want to trigger write back quickly, it needs
to set these two values with a smaller number, rather than 0 and 60.
Right?
>
> If a lot of bio is not plugged, then it's the same as before; if a lot
> of bio is plugged, noted that before this patchset, these bio will spent
> quite a long time in plug, and hence I think performance should be
> better.
Hmm, it depends on if it's sequential or not? If it's a big io
request, can it miss the merge opportunity?
Regards
Xiao
>
> Thanks,
> Kuai
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Xiao
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 4:24 PM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> bio can be added to plug infinitely, and following writeback test can
> >> trigger huge amount of plugged bio:
> >>
> >> Test script:
> >> modprobe brd rd_nr=4 rd_size=10485760
> >> mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l10 -n4 /dev/ram[0123] --assume-clean
> >> echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
> >> echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
> >> fio -filename=/dev/md0 -ioengine=libaio -rw=write -bs=4k -numjobs=1 -iodepth=128 -name=test
> >>
> >> Test result:
> >> Monitor /sys/block/md0/inflight will found that inflight keep increasing
> >> until fio finish writing, after running for about 2 minutes:
> >>
> >> [root@fedora ~]# cat /sys/block/md0/inflight
> >> 0 4474191
> >>
> >> Fix the problem by limiting the number of plugged bio based on the number
> >> of copies for original bio.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/md/raid1-10.c | 9 ++++++++-
> >> drivers/md/raid1.c | 2 +-
> >> drivers/md/raid10.c | 2 +-
> >> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1-10.c b/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
> >> index 98d678b7df3f..35fb80aa37aa 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
> >> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
> >> #define IO_MADE_GOOD ((struct bio *)2)
> >>
> >> #define BIO_SPECIAL(bio) ((unsigned long)bio <= 2)
> >> +#define MAX_PLUG_BIO 32
> >>
> >> /* for managing resync I/O pages */
> >> struct resync_pages {
> >> @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ struct resync_pages {
> >> struct raid1_plug_cb {
> >> struct blk_plug_cb cb;
> >> struct bio_list pending;
> >> + unsigned int count;
> >> };
> >>
> >> static void rbio_pool_free(void *rbio, void *data)
> >> @@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ static inline void md_submit_write(struct bio *bio)
> >> }
> >>
> >> static inline bool md_add_bio_to_plug(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
> >> - blk_plug_cb_fn unplug)
> >> + blk_plug_cb_fn unplug, int copies)
> >> {
> >> struct raid1_plug_cb *plug = NULL;
> >> struct blk_plug_cb *cb;
> >> @@ -147,6 +149,11 @@ static inline bool md_add_bio_to_plug(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
> >>
> >> plug = container_of(cb, struct raid1_plug_cb, cb);
> >> bio_list_add(&plug->pending, bio);
> >> + if (++plug->count / MAX_PLUG_BIO >= copies) {
> >> + list_del(&cb->list);
> >> + cb->callback(cb, false);
> >> + }
> >> +
> >>
> >> return true;
> >> }
> >> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> >> index 639e09cecf01..c6066408a913 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
> >> @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
> >> r1_bio->sector);
> >> /* flush_pending_writes() needs access to the rdev so...*/
> >> mbio->bi_bdev = (void *)rdev;
> >> - if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid1_unplug)) {
> >> + if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid1_unplug, disks)) {
> >> spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
> >> bio_list_add(&conf->pending_bio_list, mbio);
> >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
> >> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> >> index bd9e655ca408..7135cfaf75db 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
> >> @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ static void raid10_write_one_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct r10bio *r10_bio,
> >>
> >> atomic_inc(&r10_bio->remaining);
> >>
> >> - if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid10_unplug)) {
> >> + if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid10_unplug, conf->copies)) {
> >> spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
> >> bio_list_add(&conf->pending_bio_list, mbio);
> >> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
> >> --
> >> 2.39.2
> >>
> >
> > .
> >
>
