From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Having multiple CPUs trying to do the same cache shrinking work can be actively harmful to perforamnce when the shrinkers land in the same AGs. They then lockstep on perag locks, causing contention and slowing each other down. Reclaim walking is sufficiently efficient that we do no need parallelism to make significant progress, so stop parallel access at the door. Instead, keep track of the number of objects the shrinkers want cleaned and make sure the single running shrinker does not stop until it has hit the threshold that the other shrinker calls have built up. This increases the cold-cache unlink rate of a 8-way parallel unlink workload from about 15,000 unlinks/s to 60-70,000 unlinks/s for the same CPU usage (~700%), resulting in the runtime for a 200M inode unlink workload dropping from 4h50m to just under 1 hour. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c index d59c4a6..46a826f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c @@ -883,12 +883,25 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode_shrink( int reclaimable; mp = container_of(shrink, struct xfs_mount, m_inode_shrink); + if (nr_to_scan) { - if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) + if (!mutex_trylock(&mp->m_ino_shrink_lock)) { + atomic64_add(nr_to_scan, &mp->m_ino_shrink_nr); + return -1; + } + + if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS)) { + atomic64_add(nr_to_scan, &mp->m_ino_shrink_nr); + mutex_unlock(&mp->m_ino_shrink_lock); return -1; + } + nr_to_scan += atomic64_read(&mp->m_ino_shrink_nr); + atomic64_set(&mp->m_ino_shrink_nr, 0); xfs_inode_ag_iterator(mp, xfs_reclaim_inode, 0, XFS_ICI_RECLAIM_TAG, 1, &nr_to_scan); + mutex_unlock(&mp->m_ino_shrink_lock); + /* if we don't exhaust the scan, don't bother coming back */ if (nr_to_scan > 0) return -1; @@ -910,6 +923,8 @@ xfs_inode_shrinker_register( { mp->m_inode_shrink.shrink = xfs_reclaim_inode_shrink; mp->m_inode_shrink.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS; + atomic64_set(&mp->m_ino_shrink_nr, 0); + mutex_init(&mp->m_ino_shrink_lock); register_shrinker(&mp->m_inode_shrink); } diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h index 622da21..57b5644 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h @@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount { __int64_t m_update_flags; /* sb flags we need to update on the next remount,rw */ struct shrinker m_inode_shrink; /* inode reclaim shrinker */ + atomic64_t m_ino_shrink_nr; + struct mutex m_ino_shrink_lock; } xfs_mount_t; /* -- 1.7.1 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs