This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.
This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.
[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to
avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling,
there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely
impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty
pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check;
if (PageDirty(page) && !sync &&
mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page)
rc = -EBUSY;
This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though
it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This
patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is
the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would
block.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have no business doing any this in the standard write release path.
Get rid of it, and put it in the pNFS layer.
Also, while we're at it, get rid of the completely bogus unlock/relock
semantics that were present in nfs_writeback_release_full(). It is
not only unnecessary, but actually dangerous to release the write lock
just in order to take it again in nfs_page_async_flush(). Better just
to open code the pgio operations in a pnfs helper.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
When CONFIG_NFS=y and CONFIG_NFS_V3_{,V4}=n we get the following warning.
fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_writeback_done’:
fs/nfs/write.c:1246:21: warning: unused variable ‘server’
Remove the variable 'server' to fix the above warning.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
For pnfs pagelist write failure, we need to pg_recoalesce and resend IO to
mds.
Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_find_and_lock_request will take a reference to the nfs_page and
will then put it if the req is already locked. It's possible though
that the reference will be the last one. That put then can kick off
a whole series of reference puts:
nfs_page
nfs_open_context
dentry
inode
If the inode ends up being deleted, then the VFS will call
truncate_inode_pages. That function will try to take the page lock, but
it was already locked when migrate_page was called. The code
deadlocks.
Fix this by simply refusing the migration request if PagePrivate is
already set, indicating that the page is already associated with an
active read or write request.
We've had a customer test a backported version of this patch and
the preliminary results seem good.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
commit 420e3646 allowed the kernel to reduce the number of unnecessary
commit calls by skipping the commit when there are a large number of
outstanding pages.
However, the current test in nfs_commit_unstable_pages does not handle
the edge condition properly. When ncommit == 0, then that means that the
kernel doesn't need to do anything more for the inode. The current test
though in the WB_SYNC_NONE case will return true, and the inode will end
up being marked dirty. Once that happens the inode will never be clean
until there's a WB_SYNC_ALL flush.
Fix this by immediately returning from nfs_commit_unstable_pages when
ncommit == 0.
Mike noticed this problem initially in RHEL5 (2.6.18-based kernel) which
has a backported version of 420e3646. The inode cache there was growing
very large. The inode cache was unable to be shrunk since the inodes
were all marked dirty. Calling sync() would essentially "fix" the
problem -- the WB_SYNC_ALL flush would result in the inodes all being
marked clean.
What I'm not clear on is how big a problem this is in mainline kernels
as the writeback code there is very different. Either way, it seems
incorrect to re-mark the inode dirty in this case.
Reported-by: Mike McLean <mikem@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This reverts commit b80c3cb628.
The reverted commit was rendered obsolete by a VFS fix: commit
5547e8aac6 (writeback: Update dirty flags in
two steps). We now no longer need to worry about writeback_single_inode()
missing our marking the inode for COMMIT in 'do_writepages()' call.
Reverting this patch, fixes a performance regression in which the inode
would continuously get queued to the dirty list, causing the writeback
code to unnecessarily try to send a COMMIT.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35+]
Fix a typo which causes an Oops in the RPC layer, when using wsize < 4k.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
* 'nfs-for-3.1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (44 commits)
NFSv4: Don't use the delegation->inode in nfs_mark_return_delegation()
nfs: don't use d_move in nfs_async_rename_done
RDMA: Increasing RPCRDMA_MAX_DATA_SEGS
SUNRPC: Replace xprt->resend and xprt->sending with a priority queue
SUNRPC: Allow caller of rpc_sleep_on() to select priority levels
SUNRPC: Support dynamic slot allocation for TCP connections
SUNRPC: Clean up the slot table allocation
SUNRPC: Initalise the struct xprt upon allocation
SUNRPC: Ensure that we grab the XPRT_LOCK before calling xprt_alloc_slot
pnfs: simplify pnfs files module autoloading
nfs: document nfsv4 sillyrename issues
NFS: Convert nfs4_set_ds_client to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
SUNRPC: Convert the backchannel exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
SUNRPC: sunrpc should not explicitly depend on NFS config options
NFS: Clean up - simplify the switch to read/write-through-MDS
NFS: Move the pnfs write code into pnfs.c
NFS: Move the pnfs read code into pnfs.c
NFS: Allow the nfs_pageio_descriptor to signal that a re-coalesce is needed
NFS: Use the nfs_pageio_descriptor->pg_bsize in the read/write request
NFS: Cache rpc_ops in struct nfs_pageio_descriptor
...
Use nfs_pageio_reset_read_mds and nfs_pageio_reset_write_mds instead of
completely reinitialising the struct nfs_pageio_descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
...and ensure that we recoalese to take into account differences in
differences in block sizes when falling back to write through the MDS.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Instead of looking up the rsize and wsize, the routines that generate the
RPC requests should really be using the pg_bsize, since that is what we
use when deciding whether or not to coalesce write requests...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Split them up into two parts: one which sets up the struct nfs_read/write_data,
the other which sets up the actual RPC call or pNFS call.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If we're writing back data, and the FLUSH_STABLE flag is set, then we
always want to use NFS_FILE_SYNC, since we're always in a situation where
we're doing page reclaim, and so we want to free up the page as quickly
as possible.
If we're in the FLUSH_COND_STABLE case, then we either want to use another
unstable write (if we have to do a commit anyway) or again, we want to
use NFS_FILE_SYNC because we know that we have no more pages to write
out.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Ask for whole file layouts. Until support for layout segments is fully
supported in the file layout code, discard non-whole file layouts.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We need to ensure that the layouts are set up before we can decide to
coalesce requests. To do so, we want to further split up the struct
nfs_pageio_descriptor operations into an initialisation callback, a
coalescing test callback, and a 'do i/o' callback.
This patch cleans up the existing callback methods before adding the
'initialisation' callback.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In current pnfs tree, all the layouts set mds_offset in their
.write_pagelist member.
mds_offset is only used by generic layer and should be handled by it.
This patch is for upstream. It is needed in this -rc series to fix a
bug in objects layout_commit.
I'll send patches for objects and blocks to be
squashed into current pnfs tree.
TODO: It looks like the read path needs the same patch.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Remove two unused struct writeback_control fields:
.encountered_congestion (completely unused)
.nonblocking (never set, checked/showed in XFS,NFS/btrfs)
The .for_background check in nfs_write_inode() is also removed btw,
as .for_background implies WB_SYNC_NONE.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Use common code for pnfs_pageio_init_{read,write} and use
a common generic pg_test function.
Note that this function always assumes the the layout driver's
pg_test method is implemented.
[Fix BUG]
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Add offset and count parameters to pnfs_update_layout and use them to get
the layout in the pageio path.
Order cache layout segments in the following order:
* offset (ascending)
* length (descending)
* iomode (RW before READ)
Test byte range against the layout segment in use in pnfs_{read,write}_pg_test
so not to coalesce pages not using the same layout segment.
[fix lseg ordering]
[clean up pnfs_find_lseg lseg arg]
[remove unnecessary FIXME]
[fix ordering in pnfs_insert_layout]
[clean up pnfs_insert_layout]
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Currently, writebacks may end up recursing back into the filesystem due to
GFP_KERNEL direct reclaims in the pnfs subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
nfs_scan_commit() is called with the inode->i_lock held, but it then
calls __mark_inode_dirty() while still holding the lock. This causes
a deadlock.
Push the inode->i_lock into nfs_scan_commit() so it can protect only
the parts of the code it needs to and can be dropped before the call
to __mark_inode_dirty() to avoid the deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Will Simoneau <simoneau@ele.uri.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that the inode scalability patches have been merged, it is no longer
safe to call igrab() under the inode->i_lock.
Now that we no longer call nfs_clear_request() until the nfs_page is
being freed, we know that we are always holding a reference to the
nfs_open_context, which again holds a reference to the path, and so
the inode cannot be freed until the last nfs_page has been removed
from the radix tree and freed.
We can therefore skip the igrab()/iput() altogether.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The filelayout driver sends LAYOUTCOMMIT only when COMMIT goes to
the data server (as opposed to the MDS) and the data server WRITE
is not NFS_FILE_SYNC.
Only whole file layout support means that there is only one IOMODE_RW layout
segment.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mingyang Guo <guomingyang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Jingwang <zhangjingwang@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Tested-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Implement all the hooks created in the previous patches.
This requires exporting quite a few functions and adding a few
structure fields.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Any COMMIT compound directed to a data server needs to have the
GETATTR calls suppressed. We here, make sure the field we are testing
(data->lseg) is set and refcounted correctly.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We create three major hooks for the pnfs code.
pnfs_mark_request_commit() is called during writeback_done from
nfs_mark_request_commit, which gives the driver an opportunity to
claim it wants control over commiting a particular req.
pnfs_choose_commit_list() is called from nfs_scan_list
to choose which list a given req should be added to, based on
where we intend to send it for COMMIT. It is up to the driver
to have preallocated list headers for each destination it may need.
pnfs_commit_list() is how the driver actually takes control, it is
used instead of nfs_commit_list().
In order to pass information between the above functions, we create
a union in nfs_page to hold a lseg (which is possible because the req is
not on any list while in transition), and add some flags to indicate
if we need to use the pnfs code.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Create a separate support function for later use by data server
commit code.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Create a separate support function for later use by data server
commit code.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Based on consensus reached in Feb 2011 interim IETF meeting regarding
use of LAYOUTCOMMIT, it has been decided that a NFS_DATA_SYNC return
from a WRITE to data server should not initiate a COMMIT.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
When one of the two waits in nfs_commit_inode() is interrupted, it
returns a non-negative value, which causes nfs_wb_page() to think
that the operation was successful causing it to busy-loop rather
than exiting.
It also causes nfs_file_fsync() to incorrectly report the file as
being successfully committed to disk.
This patch fixes both problems by ensuring that we return an error
if the attempts to wait fail.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
