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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-03-11 14:10:30 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-03-11 14:10:30 -0400
commit72cb77f4a5ace37b12dcb47a0e8637a2c28ad881 (patch)
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NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to disk
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter Staubach. Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress. Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While this is compliant with all of the current protocol specifications, there are servers in the market which can not handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to be reduced when reading the file from the server. Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls generic_file_buffered_write which calls generic_perform_write which calls balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that pdflush happens to be working with. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> [modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/file.c9
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/inode.c12
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/internal.h1
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c10
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/pagelist.c11
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/write.c28
6 files changed, 42 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 90f292b520d2..404c19c866a7 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -354,6 +354,15 @@ static int nfs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
file->f_path.dentry->d_name.name,
mapping->host->i_ino, len, (long long) pos);
+ /*
+ * Prevent starvation issues if someone is doing a consistency
+ * sync-to-disk
+ */
+ ret = wait_on_bit(&NFS_I(mapping->host)->flags, NFS_INO_FLUSHING,
+ nfs_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 00f116cdadc6..c40adc5dd609 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -66,6 +66,18 @@ nfs_fattr_to_ino_t(struct nfs_fattr *fattr)
}
/**
+ * nfs_wait_bit_killable - helper for functions that are sleeping on bit locks
+ * @word: long word containing the bit lock
+ */
+int nfs_wait_bit_killable(void *word)
+{
+ if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
+ schedule();
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/**
* nfs_compat_user_ino64 - returns the user-visible inode number
* @fileid: 64-bit fileid
*
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 340ede8f608f..a55e69aa52e5 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ extern void nfs_clear_inode(struct inode *);
extern void nfs4_clear_inode(struct inode *);
#endif
void nfs_zap_acl_cache(struct inode *inode);
+extern int nfs_wait_bit_killable(void *word);
/* super.c */
void nfs_parse_ip_address(char *, size_t, struct sockaddr *, size_t *);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
index 101f5f4c304f..95f171e7e05a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -193,14 +193,6 @@ static void nfs4_setup_readdir(u64 cookie, __be32 *verifier, struct dentry *dent
kunmap_atomic(start, KM_USER0);
}
-static int nfs4_wait_bit_killable(void *word)
-{
- if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
- return -ERESTARTSYS;
- schedule();
- return 0;
-}
-
static int nfs4_wait_clnt_recover(struct nfs_client *clp)
{
int res;
@@ -208,7 +200,7 @@ static int nfs4_wait_clnt_recover(struct nfs_client *clp)
might_sleep();
res = wait_on_bit(&clp->cl_state, NFS4CLNT_MANAGER_RUNNING,
- nfs4_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ nfs_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
return res;
}
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 7f079209d70a..e2975939126a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -176,17 +176,6 @@ void nfs_release_request(struct nfs_page *req)
kref_put(&req->wb_kref, nfs_free_request);
}
-static int nfs_wait_bit_killable(void *word)
-{
- int ret = 0;
-
- if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
- ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
- else
- schedule();
- return ret;
-}
-
/**
* nfs_wait_on_request - Wait for a request to complete.
* @req: request to wait upon.
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 1a999939fedf..36fd35e0de83 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -313,19 +313,34 @@ static int nfs_writepages_callback(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *
int nfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
{
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+ unsigned long *bitlock = &NFS_I(inode)->flags;
struct nfs_pageio_descriptor pgio;
int err;
+ /* Stop dirtying of new pages while we sync */
+ err = wait_on_bit_lock(bitlock, NFS_INO_FLUSHING,
+ nfs_wait_bit_killable, TASK_KILLABLE);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_err;
+
nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_VFSWRITEPAGES);
nfs_pageio_init_write(&pgio, inode, wb_priority(wbc));
err = write_cache_pages(mapping, wbc, nfs_writepages_callback, &pgio);
nfs_pageio_complete(&pgio);
+
+ clear_bit_unlock(NFS_INO_FLUSHING, bitlock);
+ smp_mb__after_clear_bit();
+ wake_up_bit(bitlock, NFS_INO_FLUSHING);
+
if (err < 0)
- return err;
- if (pgio.pg_error < 0)
- return pgio.pg_error;
+ goto out_err;
+ err = pgio.pg_error;
+ if (err < 0)
+ goto out_err;
return 0;
+out_err:
+ return err;
}
/*
@@ -1432,18 +1447,13 @@ static int nfs_write_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, int how)
{
struct writeback_control wbc = {
.bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info,
- .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE,
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
.nr_to_write = LONG_MAX,
.range_start = 0,
.range_end = LLONG_MAX,
.for_writepages = 1,
};
- int ret;
- ret = __nfs_write_mapping(mapping, &wbc, how);
- if (ret < 0)
- return ret;
- wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL;
return __nfs_write_mapping(mapping, &wbc, how);
}