On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:55:18PM -0200, Kelbel Junior wrote:
> Hello again ...
>
> So ... after changing the memory allocator SLUB to SLAB in the Linux
> kernel and apply the patch mentioned below, the system was stable for
> 3 days and today it happened again delay to deliver content on the
> disc.
>
> When I went to see if there was something wrong in /var/log/messages
> appear several times this block:
Can you try the patch below to make the extent indirection array
reallocation more efficient? It's still working around the symptoms,
though.
What kind of workload are you running to get this extremely high number
of extents?
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/kmem.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/kmem.c 2011-10-17 09:28:57.159149025 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/kmem.c 2012-01-24 21:04:50.405954910 +0100
@@ -86,19 +86,22 @@ kmem_free(const void *ptr)
}
void *
-kmem_realloc(const void *ptr, size_t newsize, size_t oldsize,
- unsigned int __nocast flags)
+kmem_realloc(const void *old, size_t newsize, unsigned int __nocast flags)
{
+ gfp_t lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
+ int retries = 0;
void *new;
- new = kmem_alloc(newsize, flags);
- if (ptr) {
- if (new)
- memcpy(new, ptr,
- ((oldsize < newsize) ? oldsize : newsize));
- kmem_free(ptr);
- }
- return new;
+ do {
+ new = krealloc(old, newsize, lflags);
+ if (new || (flags & (KM_MAYFAIL|KM_NOSLEEP)))
+ return new;
+ if (!(++retries % 100))
+ xfs_err(NULL,
+ "possible memory allocation deadlock in %s (mode:0x%x)",
+ __func__, lflags);
+ congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+ } while (1);
}
void *
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/kmem.h
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/kmem.h 2011-12-18 23:35:30.893167926 +0100
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/kmem.h 2012-01-24 21:00:07.865956600 +0100
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ kmem_flags_convert(unsigned int __nocast
extern void *kmem_alloc(size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
extern void *kmem_zalloc(size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
-extern void *kmem_realloc(const void *, size_t, size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
+extern void *kmem_realloc(const void *, size_t, unsigned int __nocast);
extern void kmem_free(const void *);
static inline void *kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size)
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c 2012-01-24 20:57:27.079290895 +0100
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c 2012-01-24 21:02:48.145955643 +0100
@@ -1826,7 +1826,6 @@ xfs_iroot_realloc(
new_max = cur_max + rec_diff;
new_size = (size_t)XFS_BMAP_BROOT_SPACE_CALC(new_max);
ifp->if_broot = kmem_realloc(ifp->if_broot, new_size,
- (size_t)XFS_BMAP_BROOT_SPACE_CALC(cur_max), /* old size */
KM_SLEEP | KM_NOFS);
op = (char *)XFS_BMAP_BROOT_PTR_ADDR(mp, ifp->if_broot, 1,
ifp->if_broot_bytes);
@@ -1968,7 +1967,6 @@ xfs_idata_realloc(
ifp->if_u1.if_data =
kmem_realloc(ifp->if_u1.if_data,
real_size,
- ifp->if_real_bytes,
KM_SLEEP | KM_NOFS);
}
} else {
@@ -3254,8 +3252,7 @@ xfs_iext_realloc_direct(
if (rnew_size != ifp->if_real_bytes) {
ifp->if_u1.if_extents =
kmem_realloc(ifp->if_u1.if_extents,
- rnew_size,
- ifp->if_real_bytes, KM_NOFS);
+ rnew_size, KM_NOFS);
}
if (rnew_size > ifp->if_real_bytes) {
memset(&ifp->if_u1.if_extents[ifp->if_bytes /
@@ -3333,20 +3330,15 @@ xfs_iext_realloc_indirect(
xfs_ifork_t *ifp, /* inode fork pointer */
int new_size) /* new indirection array size */
{
- int nlists; /* number of irec's (ex lists) */
- int size; /* current indirection array size */
-
ASSERT(ifp->if_flags & XFS_IFEXTIREC);
- nlists = ifp->if_real_bytes / XFS_IEXT_BUFSZ;
- size = nlists * sizeof(xfs_ext_irec_t);
ASSERT(ifp->if_real_bytes);
- ASSERT((new_size >= 0) && (new_size != size));
+ ASSERT(new_size >= 0);
+
if (new_size == 0) {
xfs_iext_destroy(ifp);
} else {
- ifp->if_u1.if_ext_irec = (xfs_ext_irec_t *)
- kmem_realloc(ifp->if_u1.if_ext_irec,
- new_size, size, KM_NOFS);
+ ifp->if_u1.if_ext_irec =
+ kmem_realloc(ifp->if_u1.if_ext_irec, new_size, KM_NOFS);
}
}
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c 2011-12-18 23:35:30.906501259 +0100
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c 2012-01-24 21:02:20.352622478 +0100
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ xlog_recover_add_to_cont_trans(
old_ptr = item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].i_addr;
old_len = item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].i_len;
- ptr = kmem_realloc(old_ptr, len+old_len, old_len, 0u);
+ ptr = kmem_realloc(old_ptr, len+old_len, KM_SLEEP);
memcpy(&ptr[old_len], dp, len); /* d, s, l */
item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].i_len += len;
item->ri_buf[item->ri_cnt-1].i_addr = ptr;
Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c 2011-12-18 23:35:30.906501259 +0100
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c 2012-01-24 21:05:29.699288013 +0100
@@ -147,7 +147,6 @@ xfs_uuid_mount(
if (hole < 0) {
xfs_uuid_table = kmem_realloc(xfs_uuid_table,
(xfs_uuid_table_size + 1) * sizeof(*xfs_uuid_table),
- xfs_uuid_table_size * sizeof(*xfs_uuid_table),
KM_SLEEP);
hole = xfs_uuid_table_size++;
}
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