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Under memory pressure, direct reclaim can kick in during compressed readahead. This puts the associated task into D-state. Then shrink_lruvec() disables interrupts when acquiring the LRU lock. Under heavy pressure, we've observed reclaim can run long enough that the CPU becomes prone to CSD lock stalls since it cannot service incoming IPIs. Although the CSD lock stalls are the worst case scenario, we have found many more subtle occurrences of this latency on the order of seconds, over a minute in some cases. Prevent direct reclaim during compressed readahead. This is achieved by using different GFP flags at key points when the bio is marked for readahead. There are two functions that allocate during compressed readahead: btrfs_alloc_compr_folio() and add_ra_bio_pages(). Both currently use GFP_NOFS which includes __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM. For the internal API call btrfs_alloc_compr_folio(), the signature changes to accept an additional gfp_t parameter. At the readahead call site, it gets flags similar to GFP_NOFS but stripped of __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM. __GFP_NOWARN is added since these allocations are allowed to fail. Demand reads still use full GFP_NOFS and will enter reclaim if needed. All other existing call sites of btrfs_alloc_compr_folio() now explicitly pass GFP_NOFS to retain their current behavior. add_ra_bio_pages() gains a bool parameter which allows callers to specify if they want to allow direct reclaim or not. In either case, the __GFP_NOWARN flag was added unconditionally since the allocations are speculative. There has been some previous work done on calling add_ra_bio_pages() [0]. This patch is complementary: where that patch reduces call frequency, this patch reduces the latency associated with those calls. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/656838ec1232314a2657716e59f4f15a8eadba64.1751492111.git.boris@bur.io/ Reviewed-by: Mark Harmstone <mark@harmstone.com> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn (Meta) <jp.kobryn@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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