Revision d7831a0bdf06b9f722b947bb0c205ff7d77cebd8 authored by Richard Kennedy on 30 June 2009, 18:41:35 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 01 July 2009, 01:56:01 UTC
balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to writeback unnecessarily. balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback and less than the threshold still dirty. This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback list. A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem. fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10 This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it alone will be enough for all cases. But it certainly is an improvement on my desktop machine writing to 2 disks. Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ? Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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dm-queue-length.c
/*
* Copyright (C) 2004-2005 IBM Corp. All Rights Reserved.
* Copyright (C) 2006-2009 NEC Corporation.
*
* dm-queue-length.c
*
* Module Author: Stefan Bader, IBM
* Modified by: Kiyoshi Ueda, NEC
*
* This file is released under the GPL.
*
* queue-length path selector - choose a path with the least number of
* in-flight I/Os.
*/
#include "dm.h"
#include "dm-path-selector.h"
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#define DM_MSG_PREFIX "multipath queue-length"
#define QL_MIN_IO 128
#define QL_VERSION "0.1.0"
struct selector {
struct list_head valid_paths;
struct list_head failed_paths;
};
struct path_info {
struct list_head list;
struct dm_path *path;
unsigned repeat_count;
atomic_t qlen; /* the number of in-flight I/Os */
};
static struct selector *alloc_selector(void)
{
struct selector *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL);
if (s) {
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->valid_paths);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->failed_paths);
}
return s;
}
static int ql_create(struct path_selector *ps, unsigned argc, char **argv)
{
struct selector *s = alloc_selector();
if (!s)
return -ENOMEM;
ps->context = s;
return 0;
}
static void ql_free_paths(struct list_head *paths)
{
struct path_info *pi, *next;
list_for_each_entry_safe(pi, next, paths, list) {
list_del(&pi->list);
kfree(pi);
}
}
static void ql_destroy(struct path_selector *ps)
{
struct selector *s = ps->context;
ql_free_paths(&s->valid_paths);
ql_free_paths(&s->failed_paths);
kfree(s);
ps->context = NULL;
}
static int ql_status(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
status_type_t type, char *result, unsigned maxlen)
{
unsigned sz = 0;
struct path_info *pi;
/* When called with NULL path, return selector status/args. */
if (!path)
DMEMIT("0 ");
else {
pi = path->pscontext;
switch (type) {
case STATUSTYPE_INFO:
DMEMIT("%d ", atomic_read(&pi->qlen));
break;
case STATUSTYPE_TABLE:
DMEMIT("%u ", pi->repeat_count);
break;
}
}
return sz;
}
static int ql_add_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
int argc, char **argv, char **error)
{
struct selector *s = ps->context;
struct path_info *pi;
unsigned repeat_count = QL_MIN_IO;
/*
* Arguments: [<repeat_count>]
* <repeat_count>: The number of I/Os before switching path.
* If not given, default (QL_MIN_IO) is used.
*/
if (argc > 1) {
*error = "queue-length ps: incorrect number of arguments";
return -EINVAL;
}
if ((argc == 1) && (sscanf(argv[0], "%u", &repeat_count) != 1)) {
*error = "queue-length ps: invalid repeat count";
return -EINVAL;
}
/* Allocate the path information structure */
pi = kmalloc(sizeof(*pi), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pi) {
*error = "queue-length ps: Error allocating path information";
return -ENOMEM;
}
pi->path = path;
pi->repeat_count = repeat_count;
atomic_set(&pi->qlen, 0);
path->pscontext = pi;
list_add_tail(&pi->list, &s->valid_paths);
return 0;
}
static void ql_fail_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path)
{
struct selector *s = ps->context;
struct path_info *pi = path->pscontext;
list_move(&pi->list, &s->failed_paths);
}
static int ql_reinstate_path(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path)
{
struct selector *s = ps->context;
struct path_info *pi = path->pscontext;
list_move_tail(&pi->list, &s->valid_paths);
return 0;
}
/*
* Select a path having the minimum number of in-flight I/Os
*/
static struct dm_path *ql_select_path(struct path_selector *ps,
unsigned *repeat_count, size_t nr_bytes)
{
struct selector *s = ps->context;
struct path_info *pi = NULL, *best = NULL;
if (list_empty(&s->valid_paths))
return NULL;
/* Change preferred (first in list) path to evenly balance. */
list_move_tail(s->valid_paths.next, &s->valid_paths);
list_for_each_entry(pi, &s->valid_paths, list) {
if (!best ||
(atomic_read(&pi->qlen) < atomic_read(&best->qlen)))
best = pi;
if (!atomic_read(&best->qlen))
break;
}
if (!best)
return NULL;
*repeat_count = best->repeat_count;
return best->path;
}
static int ql_start_io(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
size_t nr_bytes)
{
struct path_info *pi = path->pscontext;
atomic_inc(&pi->qlen);
return 0;
}
static int ql_end_io(struct path_selector *ps, struct dm_path *path,
size_t nr_bytes)
{
struct path_info *pi = path->pscontext;
atomic_dec(&pi->qlen);
return 0;
}
static struct path_selector_type ql_ps = {
.name = "queue-length",
.module = THIS_MODULE,
.table_args = 1,
.info_args = 1,
.create = ql_create,
.destroy = ql_destroy,
.status = ql_status,
.add_path = ql_add_path,
.fail_path = ql_fail_path,
.reinstate_path = ql_reinstate_path,
.select_path = ql_select_path,
.start_io = ql_start_io,
.end_io = ql_end_io,
};
static int __init dm_ql_init(void)
{
int r = dm_register_path_selector(&ql_ps);
if (r < 0)
DMERR("register failed %d", r);
DMINFO("version " QL_VERSION " loaded");
return r;
}
static void __exit dm_ql_exit(void)
{
int r = dm_unregister_path_selector(&ql_ps);
if (r < 0)
DMERR("unregister failed %d", r);
}
module_init(dm_ql_init);
module_exit(dm_ql_exit);
MODULE_AUTHOR("Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader at de.ibm.com>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION(
"(C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2004,2005 All Rights Reserved.\n"
DM_NAME " path selector to balance the number of in-flight I/Os"
);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
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