To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat.
# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618
These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no
way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for
nr_dirty/nr_writeback.
These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour.
We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block
layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have
e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour,
but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is
doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if
it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values
exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending
through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this
data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to
see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the
rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to
understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel
engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance
problems.
Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written
Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat
Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to
/proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases
and file servers and are not debugging the kernel.
The output is as below:
# grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223
This patch:
This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page
writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these
routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get
bugs.
Modify nilfs2 to use interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efe
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.
We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.
Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The locking order in oom_adjust_write() and oom_score_adj_write() for
task->alloc_lock and task->sighand->siglock is reversed, and lockdep
notices that irqs could encounter an ABBA scenario.
This fixes the locking order so that we always take task_lock(task) prior
to lock_task_sighand(task).
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's better to use proper error handling in oom_adjust_write() and
oom_score_adj_write() instead of duplicating the locking order on various
exit paths.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent
kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
function.
This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
oom conditions.
This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
operation is atomic.
[rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
[rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
[rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty
stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
365b1818 ("add f_flags to struct statfs(64)") resized f_spare within
struct statfs which caused a UML crash. There is no need to copy f_spare.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (99 commits)
svcrpc: svc_tcp_sendto XPT_DEAD check is redundant
svcrpc: no need for XPT_DEAD check in svc_xprt_enqueue
svcrpc: assume svc_delete_xprt() called only once
svcrpc: never clear XPT_BUSY on dead xprt
nfsd4: fix connection allocation in sequence()
nfsd4: only require krb5 principal for NFSv4.0 callbacks
nfsd4: move minorversion to client
nfsd4: delay session removal till free_client
nfsd4: separate callback change and callback probe
nfsd4: callback program number is per-session
nfsd4: track backchannel connections
nfsd4: confirm only on succesful create_session
nfsd4: make backchannel sequence number per-session
nfsd4: use client pointer to backchannel session
nfsd4: move callback setup into session init code
nfsd4: don't cache seq_misordered replies
SUNRPC: Properly initialize sock_xprt.srcaddr in all cases
SUNRPC: Use conventional switch statement when reclassifying sockets
sunrpc/xprtrdma: clean up workqueue usage
sunrpc: Turn list_for_each-s into the ..._entry-s
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (two different deprecation notices added in
separate branches) in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
net/sunrpc: Use static const char arrays
nfs4: fix channel attribute sanity-checks
NFSv4.1: Use more sensible names for 'initialize_mountpoint'
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: add driver's LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFSv4.1: pnfs: add LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO infrastructure
NFS: client needs to maintain list of inodes with active layouts
NFS: create and destroy inode's layout cache
NFSv4.1: pnfs: filelayout: introduce minimal file layout driver
NFSv4.1: pnfs: full mount/umount infrastructure
NFS: set layout driver
NFS: ask for layouttypes during v4 fsinfo call
NFS: change stateid to be a union
NFSv4.1: pnfsd, pnfs: protocol level pnfs constants
SUNRPC: define xdr_decode_opaque_fixed
NFSD: remove duplicate NFS4_STATEID_SIZE
The sanity checks here are incorrect; in the worst case they allow
values that crash the client.
They're also over-reliant on the preprocessor.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'nfs-for-2.6.37' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (67 commits)
SUNRPC: Cleanup duplicate assignment in rpcauth_refreshcred
nfs: fix unchecked value
Ask for time_delta during fsinfo probe
Revalidate caches on lock
SUNRPC: After calling xprt_release(), we must restart from call_reserve
NFSv4: Fix up the 'dircount' hint in encode_readdir
NFSv4: Clean up nfs4_decode_dirent
NFSv4: nfs4_decode_dirent must clear entry->fattr->valid
NFSv4: Fix a regression in decode_getfattr
NFSv4: Fix up decode_attr_filehandle() to handle the case of empty fh pointer
NFS: Ensure we check all allocation return values in new readdir code
NFS: Readdir plus in v4
NFS: introduce generic decode_getattr function
NFS: check xdr_decode for errors
NFS: nfs_readdir_filler catch all errors
NFS: readdir with vmapped pages
NFS: remove page size checking code
NFS: decode_dirent should use an xdr_stream
SUNRPC: Add a helper function xdr_inline_peek
NFS: remove readdir plus limit
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd:
exofs: Remove inode->i_count manipulation in exofs_new_inode
fs/exofs: typo fix of faild to failed
exofs: Set i_mapping->backing_dev_info anyway
exofs: Cleaup read path in regard with read_for_write
exofs_new_inode() was incrementing the inode->i_count and
decrementing it in create_done(), in a bad attempt to make sure
the inode will still be there when the asynchronous create_done()
finally arrives. This was very stupid because iput() was not called,
and if it was actually needed, it would leak the inode.
However all this is not needed, because at exofs_evict_inode()
we already wait for create_done() by waiting for the
object_created event. Therefore remove the superfluous ref counting
and just Thicken the comment at exofs_evict_inode() a bit.
While at it change places that open coded wait_obj_created()
to call the already available wrapper.
CC: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Replace the BKL with a mutex to protect the venus_comm structure which
binds the mountpoint with the character device and holds the upcall
queues.
Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe <yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that shared inode state is locked using the cii->c_lock, the BKL is
only used to protect the upcall queues used to communicate with the
userspace cache manager. The remaining state is all local and we can
push the lock further down into coda_upcall().
Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe <yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We mostly need it to protect cached user permissions. The c_flags field
is advisory, reading the wrong value is harmless and in the worst case
we hit a slow path where we have to make an extra upcall to the
userspace cache manager when revalidating a dentry or inode.
Signed-off-by: Yoshihisa Abe <yoshiabe@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We're doing an allocation under a spinlock, and ignoring the
possibility of allocation failure.
A better fix wouldn't require an unnecessary allocation in the common
case, but we'll leave that for later.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
The initialize_mountpoint/uninitialise_mountpoint functions are really about
setting or clearing the layout driver to be used on this filesystem. Change
the names to the more descriptive 'set_layoutdriver/clear_layoutdriver'.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Implement the driver's io_ops->alloc_lseg and free_lseg functions,
which integrate into the deviceid cache and calls out to
nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add the ability to actually send LAYOUTGET and GETDEVICEINFO. This also adds
in the machinery to handle layout state and the deviceid cache. Note that
GETDEVICEINFO is not called directly by the generic layer. Instead it
is called by the drivers while parsing the LAYOUTGET opaque data in response
to an unknown device id embedded therein. RFC 5661 only encodes
device ids within the driver-specific opaque data.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Sager <sager@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In particular, server reboot will invalidate all layouts.
Note that in order to have an active layout, we must get a successful response
from the server. To avoid adding that machinery, this patch just includes a
stub that fakes up a successful return. Since the layout is never referenced
for io, this is not a problem.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
At the start of the io paths, try to grab the relevant layout
information. This will initiate the inode's layout cache, but
stubs ensure the cache stays empty.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <guotao@nrchpc.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <ricardo.labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
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>
This driver just registers itself and supplies trivial mount/umount functions.
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.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>
Allow a module implementing a layout type to register, and
have its mount/umount routines called for filesystems that
the server declares support it.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bian Naimeng <biannm@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Put in the infrastructure that uses information returned from the
server at mount to select a layout driver module.
In this patch, a stub is used that always returns "no driver found".
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildebz@umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.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>
This information will be used to determine which layout driver,
if any, to use for subsequent IO on this filesystem. Each driver
is assigned an integer id, with 0 reserved to indicate no driver.
The server can in theory return multiple ids. However, our current
client implementation only notes the first entry and ignores the
rest.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.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>
In NFSv4.1 the stateid consists of the other and seqid fields. For layout
processing we need to numerically compare the seqid value of layout stateids.
To do so, introduce a union to nfs4_stateid to switch between opaque(16 bytes)
and opaque(12 bytes) / __be32
Signed-off-by: Alexandros Batsakis <batsakis@netapp.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>
Already accepted by Bruce
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>
Return value of "decode_attr_bitmap()" was not checked;
Signed-off-by: Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Used by the client to determine if the server has a granular enough
time stamp.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Instead of blindly zapping the caches, attempt to revalidate them if
the server has indicated that it uses high resolution timestamps.
NFSv4 should be able to always revalidate the cache since the
protocol requires the update of the change attribute on modification of
the data. In reality, there are servers (the Linux NFS server
for example) that do not obey this requirement and use ctime as the
basis for change attribute. Long term, the server needs to be fixed.
At this time, and to be on the safe side, continue zapping caches if
the server indicates that it does not have a high resolution timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This reverts commit 7681bfeecc.
Conflicts:
include/linux/genhd.h
It has numerous issues with the cleanup path and non-elevator
devices. Revert it for now so we can come up with a clean
version without rushing things.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Also ensure we only ask for either fileid or mounted_on_fileid in the
readdirplus case too...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We don't want to have the mounted_on_fileid overwrite the true fileid. We
only return the former if the server didn't supply the true fileid.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
decode_attr_filehandle still needs to skip the XDR-encoded filehandle if
someone passes a null pointer argument.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Getattr should be able to decode errors and the readdir file handle.
decode_getfattr_attrs does the actual attribute decoding, while
decode_getfattr_generic will check the opcode before decoding. This will
let other functions call decode_getfattr_attrs to decode their attributes.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Check if the decoded entry has the eof bit set when returning from xdr_decode
with an error. If it does, we should set the eof bits in the array before
returning. This should keep us from looping when we expect more data but the
server doesn't give us anything new.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Check for all errors, not a specific one.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We can use vmapped pages to read more information from the network at once.
This will reduce the number of calls needed to complete a readdir.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
[trondmy: Added #include for linux/vmalloc.h> in fs/nfs/dir.c]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Remove the page size checking code for a readdir decode. This is now done
by decode_dirent with xdr_streams.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Convert nfs*xdr.c to use an xdr stream in decode_dirent. This will prevent a
kernel oops that has been occuring when reading a vmapped page.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We will now use readdir plus even on directories that are very large.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
