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xfs: lockless buffer cache lookups
Current work to merge the XFS inode life cycle with the VFS inode
life cycle is finding some interesting issues. If we have a path
that hits buffer trylocks fairly hard (e.g. a non-blocking
background inode freeing function), we end up hitting massive
contention on the buffer cache hash locks:
- 92.71% 0.05% [kernel] [k] xfs_inodegc_worker
- 92.67% xfs_inodegc_worker
- 92.13% xfs_inode_unlink
- 91.52% xfs_inactive_ifree
- 85.63% xfs_read_agi
- 85.61% xfs_trans_read_buf_map
- 85.59% xfs_buf_read_map
- xfs_buf_get_map
- 85.55% xfs_buf_find
- 72.87% _raw_spin_lock
- do_raw_spin_lock
71.86% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 8.74% xfs_buf_rele
- 7.88% _raw_spin_lock
- 7.88% do_raw_spin_lock
7.63% __pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 1.70% xfs_buf_trylock
- 1.68% down_trylock
- 1.41% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
- 1.39% do_raw_spin_lock
__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
- 0.76% _raw_spin_unlock
0.75% do_raw_spin_unlock
This is basically hammering the pag->pag_buf_lock from lots of CPUs
doing trylocks at the same time. Most of the buffer trylock
operations ultimately fail after we've done the lookup, so we're
really hammering the buf hash lock whilst making no progress.
We can also see significant spinlock traffic on the same lock just
under normal operation when lots of tasks are accessing metadata
from the same AG, so let's avoid all this by creating a lookup fast
path which leverages the rhashtable's ability to do RCU protected
lookups.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
* tag 'xfs-buf-lockless-lookup-5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs:
xfs: lockless buffer lookup
xfs: remove a superflous hash lookup when inserting new buffers
xfs: reduce the number of atomic when locking a buffer after lookup
xfs: merge xfs_buf_find() and xfs_buf_get_map()
xfs: break up xfs_buf_find() into individual pieces
xfs: rework xfs_buf_incore() API
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