Currently pages with journalled data written by write(2) or modified by
block zeroing during truncate(2) are not marked as dirty. They are
dirtied only once the transaction commits. This however makes writeback
code think inode has no pages to write and so ext4_writepages() is not
called to make pages with journalled data persistent. Mark pages with
journalled data dirty (similarly as it happens for writes through mmap)
so that writeback code knows about them and ext4_writepages() can do
what it needs to to the inode.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329154950.19720-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When invalidating buffers under the partial tail page,
jbd2_journal_invalidate_folio() returns -EBUSY if the buffer is part of
the committing transaction as we cannot safely modify buffer state.
However if the buffer is already invalidated (due to previous
invalidation attempts from ext4_wait_for_tail_page_commit()), there's
nothing to do and there's no point in returning -EBUSY. This fixes
occasional warnings from ext4_journalled_invalidate_folio() triggered by
generic/051 fstest when blocksize < pagesize.
Fixes: 53e872681f ("ext4: fix deadlock in journal_unmap_buffer()")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230329154950.19720-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
This particular combination of flags is used by most filesystems
in their ->write_begin method, although it does find use in a
few other places. Before folios, it warranted its own function
(grab_cache_page_write_begin()), but I think that just having specialised
flags is enough. It certainly helps the few places that have been
converted from grab_cache_page_write_begin() to __filemap_get_folio().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324180129.1220691-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Currently, the kernel uses i_prealloc_list to hold all the inode
preallocations. This is known to cause degradation in performance in
workloads which perform large number of sparse writes on a single file.
This is mainly because functions like ext4_mb_normalize_request() and
ext4_mb_use_preallocated() iterate over this complete list, resulting in
slowdowns when large number of PAs are present.
Patch 27bc446e2 partially fixed this by enforcing a limit of 512 for
the inode preallocation list and adding logic to continually trim the
list if it grows above the threshold, however our testing revealed that
a hardcoded value is not suitable for all kinds of workloads.
To optimize this, add an rbtree to the inode and hold the inode
preallocations in this rbtree. This will make iterating over inode PAs
faster and scale much better than a linked list. Additionally, we also
had to remove the LRU logic that was added during trimming of the list
(in ext4_mb_release_context()) as it will add extra overhead in rbtree.
The discards now happen in the lowest-logical-offset-first order.
** Locking notes **
With the introduction of rbtree to maintain inode PAs, we can't use RCU
to walk the tree for searching since it can result in partial traversals
which might miss some nodes(or entire subtrees) while discards happen
in parallel (which happens under a lock). Hence this patch converts the
ei->i_prealloc_lock spin_lock to rw_lock.
Almost all the codepaths that read/modify the PA rbtrees are protected
by the higher level inode->i_data_sem (except
ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations() and ext4_clear_inode()) IIUC, the
only place we need lock protection is when one thread is reading
"searching" the PA rbtree (earlier protected under rcu_read_lock()) and
another is "deleting" the PAs in ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations()
function (which iterates all the PAs using the grp->bb_prealloc_list and
deletes PAs from the tree without taking any inode lock (i_data_sem)).
So, this patch converts all rcu_read_lock/unlock() paths for inode list
PA to use read_lock() and all places where we were using
ei->i_prealloc_lock spinlock will now be using write_lock().
Note that this makes the fast path (searching of the right PA e.g.
ext4_mb_use_preallocated() or ext4_mb_normalize_request()), now use
read_lock() instead of rcu_read_lock/unlock(). Ths also will now block
due to slow discard path (ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations()) which
uses write_lock().
But this is not as bad as it looks. This is because -
1. The slow path only occurs when the normal allocation failed and we
can say that we are low on disk space. One can argue this scenario
won't be much frequent.
2. ext4_mb_discard_group_preallocations(), locks and unlocks the rwlock
for deleting every individual PA. This gives enough opportunity for
the fast path to acquire the read_lock for searching the PA inode
list.
Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4137bce8f6948fedd8bae134dabae24acfe699c6.1679731817.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
** Splitting pa->pa_inode_list **
Currently, we use the same pa->pa_inode_list to add a pa to either
the inode preallocation list or the locality group preallocation list.
For better clarity, split this list into a union of 2 list_heads and use
either of the them based on the type of pa.
** Splitting pa->pa_obj_lock **
Currently, pa->pa_obj_lock is either assigned &ei->i_prealloc_lock for
inode PAs or lg_prealloc_lock for lg PAs, and is then used to lock the
lists containing these PAs. Make the distinction between the 2 PA types
clear by changing this lock to a union of 2 locks. Explicitly use the
pa_lock_node.inode_lock for inode PAs and pa_lock_node.lg_lock for lg
PAs.
This patch is required so that the locality group preallocation code
remains the same as in upcoming patches we are going to make changes to
inode preallocation code to move from list to rbtree based
implementation. This patch also makes it easier to review the upcoming
patches.
There are no functional changes in this patch.
Suggested-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1d7ac0557e998c3fc7eef422b52e4bc67bdef2b0.1679731817.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When the length of best extent found is less than the length of goal extent
we need to make sure that the best extent atleast covers the start of the
original request. This is done by adjusting the ac_b_ex.fe_logical (logical
start) of the extent.
While doing so, the current logic sometimes results in the best extent's
logical range overflowing the goal extent. Since this best extent is later
added to the inode preallocation list, we have a possibility of introducing
overlapping preallocations. This is discussed in detail here [1].
As per Jan's suggestion, to fix this, replace the existing logic with the
below logic for adjusting best extent as it keeps fragmentation in check
while ensuring logical range of best extent doesn't overflow out of goal
extent:
1. Check if best extent can be kept at end of goal range and still cover
original start.
2. Else, check if best extent can be kept at start of goal range and still
cover original start.
3. Else, keep the best extent at start of original request.
Also, add a few extra BUG_ONs that might help catch errors faster.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y+OGkVvzPN0RMv0O@li-bb2b2a4c-3307-11b2-a85c-8fa5c3a69313.ibm.com
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f96aca6d415b36d1f90db86c1a8cd7e2e9d7ab0e.1679731817.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Call trace to assign ac_f_ex:
ext4_mb_use_best_found
ac->ac_f_ex = ac->ac_b_ex;
ext4_mb_new_preallocation
ext4_mb_new_group_pa
ac->ac_f_ex = ac->ac_b_ex;
ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
ac->ac_f_ex = ac->ac_b_ex;
Actually allocated blocks is already stored in ac_f_ex in
ext4_mb_use_best_found, so there is no need to assign ac_f_ex
in ext4_mb_new_group_pa and ext4_mb_new_inode_pa.
Just remove repeat assignment to ac_f_ex in ext4_mb_new_group_pa
and ext4_mb_new_inode_pa.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230303172120.3800725-19-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
