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Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains work adressing lockups reported by users when a systemd
unit reading lots of files from a filesystem mounted with the lazytime
mount option exits.
With the lazytime mount option enabled we can be switching many dirty
inodes on cgroup exit to the parent cgroup. The numbers observed in
practice when systemd slice of a large cron job exits can easily reach
hundreds of thousands or millions.
The logic in inode_do_switch_wbs() which sorts the inode into
appropriate place in b_dirty list of the target wb however has linear
complexity in the number of dirty inodes thus overall time complexity
of switching all the inodes is quadratic leading to workers being
pegged for hours consuming 100% of the CPU and switching inodes to the
parent wb.
Simple reproducer of the issue:
FILES=10000
# Filesystem mounted with lazytime mount option
MNT=/mnt/
echo "Creating files and switching timestamps"
for (( j = 0; j < 50; j ++ )); do
mkdir $MNT/dir$j
for (( i = 0; i < $FILES; i++ )); do
echo "foo" >$MNT/dir$j/file$i
done
touch -a -t 202501010000 $MNT/dir$j/file*
done
wait
echo "Syncing and flushing"
sync
echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
echo "Reading all files from a cgroup"
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/mycg1 || exit
echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/mycg1/cgroup.procs || exit
for (( j = 0; j < 50; j ++ )); do
cat /mnt/dir$j/file* >/dev/null &
done
wait
echo "Switching wbs"
# Now rmdir the cgroup after the script exits
This can be solved by:
- Avoiding contention on the wb->list_lock when switching inodes by
running a single work item per wb and managing a queue of items
switching to the wb
- Allowing rescheduling when switching inodes over to a different
cgroup to avoid softlockups
- Maintaining the b_dirty list ordering instead of sorting it"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
writeback: Add tracepoint to track pending inode switches
writeback: Avoid excessively long inode switching times
writeback: Avoid softlockup when switching many inodes
writeback: Avoid contention on wb->list_lock when switching inodes
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