linux-kernel-test/include/linux/backing-dev.h
Jens Axboe 03ba3782e8 writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
vmstat:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  1      0 608848   2652 375372    0    0     0 71024  604    24  1 10 48 42
 0  1      0 549644   2712 433736    0    0     0 60692  505    27  1  8 48 44
 1  0      0 476928   2784 505192    0    0     4 29540  553    24  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 457972   2808 524008    0    0     0 54876  331    16  0  4 38 58
 0  1      0 366128   2928 614284    0    0     4 92168  710    58  0 13 53 34
 0  1      0 295092   3000 684140    0    0     0 62924  572    23  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 236592   3064 741704    0    0     4 58256  523    17  0  8 48 44
 0  1      0 165608   3132 811464    0    0     0 57460  560    21  0  8 54 38
 0  1      0 102952   3200 873164    0    0     4 74748  540    29  1 10 48 41
 0  1      0  48604   3252 926472    0    0     0 53248  469    29  0  7 47 45

where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1      0 678716   5792 303380    0    0     0 74064  565    50  1 11 52 36
 1  0      0 662488   5864 319396    0    0     4   352  302   329  0  2 47 51
 0  1      0 599312   5924 381468    0    0     0 78164  516    55  0  9 51 40
 0  1      0 519952   6008 459516    0    0     4 78156  622    56  1 11 52 37
 1  1      0 436640   6092 541632    0    0     0 82244  622    54  0 11 48 41
 0  1      0 436640   6092 541660    0    0     0     8  152    39  0  0 51 49
 0  1      0 332224   6200 644252    0    0     4 102800  728    46  1 13 49 36
 1  0      0 274492   6260 701056    0    0     4 12328  459    49  0  7 50 43
 0  1      0 211220   6324 763356    0    0     0 106940  515    37  1 10 51 39
 1  0      0 160412   6376 813468    0    0     0  8224  415    43  0  6 49 45
 1  1      0  85980   6452 886556    0    0     4 113516  575    39  1 11 54 34
 0  2      0  85968   6452 886620    0    0     0  1640  158   211  0  0 46 54

A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
writes.

A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00

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/*
* include/linux/backing-dev.h
*
* low-level device information and state which is propagated up through
* to high-level code.
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H
#define _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H
#include <linux/percpu_counter.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/proportions.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/writeback.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
struct page;
struct device;
struct dentry;
/*
* Bits in backing_dev_info.state
*/
enum bdi_state {
BDI_pending, /* On its way to being activated */
BDI_wb_alloc, /* Default embedded wb allocated */
BDI_async_congested, /* The async (write) queue is getting full */
BDI_sync_congested, /* The sync queue is getting full */
BDI_unused, /* Available bits start here */
};
typedef int (congested_fn)(void *, int);
enum bdi_stat_item {
BDI_RECLAIMABLE,
BDI_WRITEBACK,
NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS
};
#define BDI_STAT_BATCH (8*(1+ilog2(nr_cpu_ids)))
struct bdi_writeback {
struct list_head list; /* hangs off the bdi */
struct backing_dev_info *bdi; /* our parent bdi */
unsigned int nr;
unsigned long last_old_flush; /* last old data flush */
struct task_struct *task; /* writeback task */
struct list_head b_dirty; /* dirty inodes */
struct list_head b_io; /* parked for writeback */
struct list_head b_more_io; /* parked for more writeback */
};
struct backing_dev_info {
struct list_head bdi_list;
unsigned long ra_pages; /* max readahead in PAGE_CACHE_SIZE units */
unsigned long state; /* Always use atomic bitops on this */
unsigned int capabilities; /* Device capabilities */
congested_fn *congested_fn; /* Function pointer if device is md/dm */
void *congested_data; /* Pointer to aux data for congested func */
void (*unplug_io_fn)(struct backing_dev_info *, struct page *);
void *unplug_io_data;
struct percpu_counter bdi_stat[NR_BDI_STAT_ITEMS];
struct prop_local_percpu completions;
int dirty_exceeded;
unsigned int min_ratio;
unsigned int max_ratio, max_prop_frac;
struct bdi_writeback wb; /* default writeback info for this bdi */
spinlock_t wb_lock; /* protects update side of wb_list */
struct list_head wb_list; /* the flusher threads hanging off this bdi */
unsigned long wb_mask; /* bitmask of registered tasks */
unsigned int wb_cnt; /* number of registered tasks */
struct list_head work_list;
struct device *dev;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
struct dentry *debug_dir;
struct dentry *debug_stats;
#endif
};
int bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
void bdi_destroy(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct device *parent,
const char *fmt, ...);
int bdi_register_dev(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, dev_t dev);
void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
void bdi_start_writeback(struct writeback_control *wbc);
int bdi_writeback_task(struct bdi_writeback *wb);
int bdi_has_dirty_io(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
extern spinlock_t bdi_lock;
extern struct list_head bdi_list;
static inline int wb_has_dirty_io(struct bdi_writeback *wb)
{
return !list_empty(&wb->b_dirty) ||
!list_empty(&wb->b_io) ||
!list_empty(&wb->b_more_io);
}
static inline void __add_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item, s64 amount)
{
__percpu_counter_add(&bdi->bdi_stat[item], amount, BDI_STAT_BATCH);
}
static inline void __inc_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
__add_bdi_stat(bdi, item, 1);
}
static inline void inc_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
unsigned long flags;
local_irq_save(flags);
__inc_bdi_stat(bdi, item);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
static inline void __dec_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
__add_bdi_stat(bdi, item, -1);
}
static inline void dec_bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
unsigned long flags;
local_irq_save(flags);
__dec_bdi_stat(bdi, item);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
static inline s64 bdi_stat(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
return percpu_counter_read_positive(&bdi->bdi_stat[item]);
}
static inline s64 __bdi_stat_sum(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
return percpu_counter_sum_positive(&bdi->bdi_stat[item]);
}
static inline s64 bdi_stat_sum(struct backing_dev_info *bdi,
enum bdi_stat_item item)
{
s64 sum;
unsigned long flags;
local_irq_save(flags);
sum = __bdi_stat_sum(bdi, item);
local_irq_restore(flags);
return sum;
}
extern void bdi_writeout_inc(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
/*
* maximal error of a stat counter.
*/
static inline unsigned long bdi_stat_error(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
return nr_cpu_ids * BDI_STAT_BATCH;
#else
return 1;
#endif
}
int bdi_set_min_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int min_ratio);
int bdi_set_max_ratio(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, unsigned int max_ratio);
/*
* Flags in backing_dev_info::capability
*
* The first three flags control whether dirty pages will contribute to the
* VM's accounting and whether writepages() should be called for dirty pages
* (something that would not, for example, be appropriate for ramfs)
*
* WARNING: these flags are closely related and should not normally be
* used separately. The BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK combines these
* three flags into a single convenience macro.
*
* BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY: Dirty pages shouldn't contribute to accounting
* BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK: Don't write pages back
* BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB: Don't automatically account writeback pages
*
* These flags let !MMU mmap() govern direct device mapping vs immediate
* copying more easily for MAP_PRIVATE, especially for ROM filesystems.
*
* BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY: Copy can be mapped (MAP_PRIVATE)
* BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT: Can be mapped directly (MAP_SHARED)
* BDI_CAP_READ_MAP: Can be mapped for reading
* BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP: Can be mapped for writing
* BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP: Can be mapped for execution
*
* BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED: Count shmem/tmpfs objects as swap-backed.
*/
#define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY 0x00000001
#define BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK 0x00000002
#define BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY 0x00000004
#define BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT 0x00000008
#define BDI_CAP_READ_MAP 0x00000010
#define BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP 0x00000020
#define BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP 0x00000040
#define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB 0x00000080
#define BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED 0x00000100
#define BDI_CAP_VMFLAGS \
(BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP)
#define BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_AND_WRITEBACK \
(BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY | BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB)
#if defined(VM_MAYREAD) && \
(BDI_CAP_READ_MAP != VM_MAYREAD || \
BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP != VM_MAYWRITE || \
BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP != VM_MAYEXEC)
#error please change backing_dev_info::capabilities flags
#endif
extern struct backing_dev_info default_backing_dev_info;
void default_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, struct page *page);
int writeback_in_progress(struct backing_dev_info *bdi);
static inline int bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int bdi_bits)
{
if (bdi->congested_fn)
return bdi->congested_fn(bdi->congested_data, bdi_bits);
return (bdi->state & bdi_bits);
}
static inline int bdi_read_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_sync_congested);
}
static inline int bdi_write_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi_congested(bdi, 1 << BDI_async_congested);
}
static inline int bdi_rw_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi_congested(bdi, (1 << BDI_sync_congested) |
(1 << BDI_async_congested));
}
enum {
BLK_RW_ASYNC = 0,
BLK_RW_SYNC = 1,
};
void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync);
void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int sync);
long congestion_wait(int sync, long timeout);
static inline bool bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return !(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK);
}
static inline bool bdi_cap_account_dirty(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return !(bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_DIRTY);
}
static inline bool bdi_cap_account_writeback(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
/* Paranoia: BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK implies BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB */
return !(bdi->capabilities & (BDI_CAP_NO_ACCT_WB |
BDI_CAP_NO_WRITEBACK));
}
static inline bool bdi_cap_swap_backed(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi->capabilities & BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED;
}
static inline bool bdi_cap_flush_forker(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
{
return bdi == &default_backing_dev_info;
}
static inline bool mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(struct address_space *mapping)
{
return bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping->backing_dev_info);
}
static inline bool mapping_cap_account_dirty(struct address_space *mapping)
{
return bdi_cap_account_dirty(mapping->backing_dev_info);
}
static inline bool mapping_cap_swap_backed(struct address_space *mapping)
{
return bdi_cap_swap_backed(mapping->backing_dev_info);
}
static inline int bdi_sched_wait(void *word)
{
schedule();
return 0;
}
#endif /* _LINUX_BACKING_DEV_H */