This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfs: move inode flush to the sync workqueue
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
xfs-move-inode-flush-to-the-sync-workqueue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Oct 26 04:49:40 PM CEST 2022
From: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:58:42 +0530
Subject: xfs: move inode flush to the sync workqueue
To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sashal@xxxxxxxxxx, mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, djwong@xxxxxxxxxx, chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx, amir73il@xxxxxxxxx, leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20221026062843.927600-26-chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit f0f7a674d4df1510d8ca050a669e1420cf7d7fab upstream.
[ Modify fs/xfs/xfs_super.c to include the changes at locations suitable for
5.4-lts kernel ]
Move the inode dirty data flushing to a workqueue so that multiple
threads can take advantage of a single thread's flushing work. The
ratelimiting technique used in bdd4ee4 was not successful, because
threads that skipped the inode flush scan due to ratelimiting would
ENOSPC early, which caused occasional (but noticeable) changes in
behavior and sporadic fstest regressions.
Therefore, make all the writer threads wait on a single inode flush,
which eliminates both the stampeding hordes of flushers and the small
window in which a write could fail with ENOSPC because it lost the
ratelimit race after even another thread freed space.
Fixes: c6425702f21e ("xfs: ratelimit inode flush on buffered write ENOSPC")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 5 +++++
fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
struct xfs_error_cfg m_error_cfg[XFS_ERR_CLASS_MAX][XFS_ERR_ERRNO_MAX];
struct xstats m_stats; /* per-fs stats */
+ /*
+ * Workqueue item so that we can coalesce multiple inode flush attempts
+ * into a single flush.
+ */
+ struct work_struct m_flush_inodes_work;
struct workqueue_struct *m_buf_workqueue;
struct workqueue_struct *m_unwritten_workqueue;
struct workqueue_struct *m_cil_workqueue;
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -840,6 +840,20 @@ xfs_destroy_mount_workqueues(
destroy_workqueue(mp->m_buf_workqueue);
}
+static void
+xfs_flush_inodes_worker(
+ struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct xfs_mount *mp = container_of(work, struct xfs_mount,
+ m_flush_inodes_work);
+ struct super_block *sb = mp->m_super;
+
+ if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
+ sync_inodes_sb(sb);
+ up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Flush all dirty data to disk. Must not be called while holding an XFS_ILOCK
* or a page lock. We use sync_inodes_sb() here to ensure we block while waiting
@@ -850,12 +864,15 @@ void
xfs_flush_inodes(
struct xfs_mount *mp)
{
- struct super_block *sb = mp->m_super;
+ /*
+ * If flush_work() returns true then that means we waited for a flush
+ * which was already in progress. Don't bother running another scan.
+ */
+ if (flush_work(&mp->m_flush_inodes_work))
+ return;
- if (down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount)) {
- sync_inodes_sb(sb);
- up_read(&sb->s_umount);
- }
+ queue_work(mp->m_sync_workqueue, &mp->m_flush_inodes_work);
+ flush_work(&mp->m_flush_inodes_work);
}
/* Catch misguided souls that try to use this interface on XFS */
@@ -1532,6 +1549,7 @@ xfs_mount_alloc(
spin_lock_init(&mp->m_perag_lock);
mutex_init(&mp->m_growlock);
atomic_set(&mp->m_active_trans, 0);
+ INIT_WORK(&mp->m_flush_inodes_work, xfs_flush_inodes_worker);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_reclaim_work, xfs_reclaim_worker);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_eofblocks_work, xfs_eofblocks_worker);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_cowblocks_work, xfs_cowblocks_worker);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chandan.babu@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/xfs-check-owner-of-dir3-blocks.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-throttle-commits-on-delayed-background-cil-push.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-factor-common-ail-item-deletion-code.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-remove-the-xfs_dq_logitem_t-typedef.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-fix-buffer-corruption-reporting-when-xfs_dir3_free_header_check-fails.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-xfs_buf_corruption_error-should-take-__this_address.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-open-code-insert-range-extent-split-helper.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-don-t-write-a-corrupt-unmount-record-to-force-summary-counter-recalc.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-check-owner-of-dir3-data-blocks.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-factor-out-quotaoff-intent-ail-removal-and-memory-free.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-trylock-underlying-buffer-on-dquot-flush.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-remove-the-xfs_disk_dquot_t-and-xfs_dquot_t.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-add-a-function-to-deal-with-corrupt-buffers-post-verifiers.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-fix-use-after-free-on-cil-context-on-shutdown.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-tail-updates-only-need-to-occur-when-lsn-changes.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-use-scnprintf-for-avoiding-potential-buffer-overflow.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-move-inode-flush-to-the-sync-workqueue.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-lower-cil-flush-limit-for-large-logs.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-rework-collapse-range-into-an-atomic-operation.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-remove-the-xfs_qoff_logitem_t-typedef.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-fix-unmount-hang-and-memory-leak-on-shutdown-during-quotaoff.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-preserve-default-grace-interval-during-quotacheck.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-replace-function-declaration-by-actual-definition.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-rework-insert-range-into-an-atomic-operation.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-factor-out-a-new-xfs_log_force_inode-helper.patch
queue-5.4/xfs-reflink-should-force-the-log-out-if-mounted-with-wsync.patch
