kernel.git/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c, branch linux-4.16.y

bcache: fix high CPU occupancy during journal

2018-02-07T19:50:01Z

After long time small writing I/O running, we found the occupancy of CPU is very high and I/O performance has been reduced by about half: [root@ceph151 internal]# top top - 15:51:05 up 1 day,2:43, 4 users, load average: 16.89, 15.15, 16.53 Tasks: 2063 total, 4 running, 2059 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s):4.3 us, 17.1 sy 0.0 ni, 66.1 id, 12.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.5 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 65450044 total, 24586420 free, 38909008 used, 1954616 buff/cache KiB Swap: 65667068 total, 65667068 free, 0 used. 25136812 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2023 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 55.1 0.0 0:04.42 kworker/11:191 14126 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 42.9 0.0 0:08.72 kworker/10:3 9292 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 30.4 0.0 1:10.99 kworker/6:1 8553 ceph 20 0 4242492 1.805g 18804 S 30.0 2.9 410:07.04 ceph-osd 12287 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 26.7 0.0 0:28.13 kworker/7:85 31019 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 26.1 0.0 1:30.79 kworker/22:1 1787 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 25.7 0.0 5:18.45 kworker/8:7 32169 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 14.5 0.0 1:01.92 kworker/23:1 21476 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 13.9 0.0 0:05.09 kworker/1:54 2204 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 12.5 0.0 1:25.17 kworker/9:10 16994 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 12.2 0.0 0:06.27 kworker/5:106 15714 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 10.9 0.0 0:01.85 kworker/19:2 9661 ceph 20 0 4246876 1.731g 18800 S 10.6 2.8 403:00.80 ceph-osd 11460 ceph 20 0 4164692 2.206g 18876 S 10.6 3.5 360:27.19 ceph-osd 9960 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 10.2 0.0 0:02.75 kworker/2:139 11699 ceph 20 0 4169244 1.920g 18920 S 10.2 3.1 355:23.67 ceph-osd 6843 ceph 20 0 4197632 1.810g 18900 S 9.6 2.9 380:08.30 ceph-osd The kernel work consumed a lot of CPU, and I found they are running journal work, The journal is reclaiming source and flush btree node with surprising frequency. Through further analysis, we found that in btree_flush_write(), we try to get a btree node with the smallest fifo idex to flush by traverse all the btree nodein c->bucket_hash, after we getting it, since no locker protects it, this btree node may have been written to cache device by other works, and if this occurred, we retry to traverse in c->bucket_hash and get another btree node. When the problem occurrd, the retry times is very high, and we consume a lot of CPU in looking for a appropriate btree node. In this patch, we try to record 128 btree nodes with the smallest fifo idex in heap, and pop one by one when we need to flush btree node. It greatly reduces the time for the loop to find the appropriate BTREE node, and also reduce the occupancy of CPU. [note by mpl: this triggers a checkpatch error because of adjacent, pre-existing style violations] Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: add journal statistic

2018-02-07T19:50:01Z

Sometimes, Journal takes up a lot of CPU, we need statistics to know what's the journal is doing. So this patch provide some journal statistics: 1) reclaim: how many times the journal try to reclaim resource, usually the journal bucket or/and the pin are exhausted. 2) flush_write: how many times the journal try to flush btree node to cache device, usually the journal bucket are exhausted. 3) retry_flush_write: how many times the journal retry to flush the next btree node, usually the previous tree node have been flushed by other thread. we show these statistic by sysfs interface. Through these statistics We can totally see the status of journal module when the CPU is too high. Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: Fix building error on MIPS

2017-11-24T23:22:58Z

This patch try to fix the building error on MIPS. The reason is MIPS has already defined the PTR macro, which conflicts with the PTR macro in include/uapi/linux/bcache.h. [fixed by mlyle: corrected a line-length issue] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: add a comment in journal bucket reading

2017-11-24T23:22:55Z

Journal bucket is a circular buffer, the bucket can be like YYYNNNYY, which means the first valid journal in the 7th bucket, and the latest valid journal in third bucket, in this case, if we do not try we the zero index first, We may get a valid journal in the 7th bucket, then we call find_next_bit(bitmap,ca->sb.njournal_buckets, l + 1) to get the first invalid bucket after the 7th bucket, because all these buckets is valid, so no bit 1 in bitmap, thus find_next_bit() function would return with ca->sb.njournal_buckets (8). So, after that, bcache only read journal in 7th and 8the bucket, the first to the third buckets are lost. So, it is important to let developer know that, we need to try the zero index at first in the hash-search, and avoid any breaks in future's code modification. [ML: Fixed whitespace & formatting & file permissions] Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index

2017-08-23T18:49:55Z

This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code). For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists once per block device. But given that the block layer also does partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is used for said remapping in generic_make_request. Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all over the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: switch bios to blk_status_t

2017-06-09T15:27:32Z

Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion. Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a proper blk_status_t value. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: bio: pass bvec table to bio_init()

2016-11-22T15:57:21Z

Some drivers often use external bvec table, so introduce this helper for this case. It is always safe to access the bio->bi_io_vec in this way for this case. After converting to this usage, it will becomes a bit easier to evaluate the remaining direct access to bio->bi_io_vec, so it can help to prepare for the following multipage bvec support. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Fixed up the new O_DIRECT cases. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH

2016-06-07T19:41:38Z

To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bcache: use bio op accessors

2016-06-07T19:41:38Z

Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have bcache set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe