On systems with CONFIG_SMP turned off, spin_is_locked always returns
false causing these assertions to fail. Remove them as suggested in
zfsonlinux/zfs#6558.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Cowgill <james.cowgill@mips.com>
Closes#665
taskq work item to more than one queue concurrently. Also, please
see discussion in zfsonlinux/zfs#3840.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Boris Protopopov <boris.protopopov@actifio.com>
Closes#609
taskq_seq_show_impl walks the tq_active_list to show the tqent_func and
tqent_arg. However for taskq_dispatch_ent, it's very likely that the
task entry will be freed during the function call, and causes a
use-after-free bug.
To fix this, we duplicate the task entry to an on-stack struct, and
assign it instead to tqt_task. This way, the tq_lock alone will
guarantee its safety.
Reviewed-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Closes#638Closes#640
Add a dedicated system_delay_taskq for long delay like spa_deadman and
zpl_posix_acl_free. This will allow us to use system_taskq in the manner of
dispatch multiple tasks and call taskq_wait_outstanding.
Reviewed by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Closes#588
Add the TASKQID_INVALID and TASKQID_INITIAL macros and update the
taskq implementation and test cases to use them. This is solely
for the purposes of readability and introduces no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
wait_event is a macro, so the current implementation will cause re-
evaluation of tq_next_id every time it wakes up. This would cause
taskq_wait_outstanding(tq, 0) to be equivalent to taskq_wait(tq)
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #553
While taskq_destroy would wait for dynamic_taskq to finish its tasks, but it
does not implies the thread being spawned is up and running. This will cause
taskq to be freed before the thread can exit.
We fix this by using tq_nspawn to indicate how many threads are being spawned
before they are inserted to the thread list. And have taskq_destroy to wait
for it to drop to zero.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Issue #553Closes#550
When a TQ_NOQUEUE dispatch is done on a dynamic taskq, allow another
thread to be spawned. This will cause TQ_NOQUEUE to behave similarly
as it does with non-dynamic taskqs.
Add support for TQ_NOQUEUE to taskq_dispatch_ent().
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@onlight.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#530
This patch add a module parameter spl_taskq_kick. When writing non-zero value
to it, it will scan all the taskq, if a taskq contains a task pending for more
than 5 seconds, it will be forced to spawn a new thread. This is use as an
emergency recovery from deadlock, not a general solution.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#529
To prevent taskq_member holding tq_lock and doing linear search, thus causing
contention. We store the taskq pointer to which the thread belongs in tsd.
This way taskq_member will not need to touch tq_lock, and tsd has per slot
spinlock. So the contention should be reduced greatly.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#500Closes#504Closes#505
For earlier versions of the kernel with memalloc_noio_save, it only turns
off __GFP_IO but leaves __GFP_FS untouched during direct reclaim. This
would cause threads to direct reclaim into ZFS and cause deadlock.
Instead, we should stick to using spl_fstrans_mark. Since we would
explicitly turn off both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS before allocation, it
will work on every version of the kernel.
This impacts kernel versions 3.9-3.17, see upstream kernel commit
torvalds/linux@934f307 for reference.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#515
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#4111
This patch provides 2 new kstats to display task queues:
/proc/spl/taskqs-all - Display all task queues
/proc/spl/taskqs - Display only "active" task queues
A task queue is considered to be "active" if it currently has active
(running) threads or if any of its pending, priority, delay or waitq
lists are not empty.
If the task queue has running threads, displays each thread function's
address (symbolically, if possibly) and its argument.
If the task queue has a non-empty list of pending, priority or delayed
task queue entries (taskq_ent_t), displays each entry's thread function
address and arguemnt.
If the task queue has any waiters, displays each waiting task's pid.
Note: This patch also updates some comments in taskq.h which referred to
"taskq_t" when they should have referred to "taskq_ent_t".
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#491
This patch only addresses the issues identified by the style checker.
It contains no functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The flags argument in spin_lock_irqsave is modified out side of spin_lock
context. We cannot use a shared variable like tq->tq_lock_flags for them. This
patch removes it and uses local variable for the flags.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#506
When taskq_dispatch() calls taskq_thread_spawn() to create a new thread
for a taskq, linux lockdep warns of possible recursive locking. This is
a false positive.
One such call chain is as follows, when a taskq needs more threads:
taskq_dispatch->taskq_thread_spawn->taskq_dispatch
The initial taskq_dispatch() holds tq_lock on the taskq that needed more
worker threads. The later call into taskq_dispatch() takes
dynamic_taskq->tq_lock. Without subclassing, lockdep believes these
could potentially be the same lock and complains. A similar case occurs
when taskq_dispatch() then calls task_alloc().
This patch uses spin_lock_irqsave_nested() when taking tq_lock, with one
of two new lock subclasses:
subclass taskq
TQ_LOCK_DYNAMIC dynamic_taskq
TQ_LOCK_GENERAL any other
Signed-off-by: Olaf Faaland <faaland1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #480
This reverts commit a430c11f0b. Using
journal_info like this can cause a BUG at kernel fs/jbd2/transaction.c:425!
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #500
The ->journal_info pointer in the task_struct is reserved for use by
filesystems and because the kernel can have multiple file systems on the
same stack due to direct reclaim, each filesystem that touches
->journal_info in a callback function will save the value at the start
of its frame and restore it at the end of its frame. This allows us to
safely use ->journal_info to store a pointer to the taskq's struct in
taskq threads so that ZFS code paths can detect the presence of a taskq.
This could break if the ZFS code were to use taskq_member from the
context of direct reclaim. However, there are no such uses of it in that
manner, so this is safe.
This eliminates an O(N) list traversal under a spinlock with an O(1)
unlocked pointer comparison.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: tuxoko <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#500
Currently taskq_dispatch() will spawn new task with a condition that the caller
is also a member of the taskq. However, under this condition, it will still
cause deadlock where a task on tq1 is waiting another thread, who is trying to
dispatch a task on tq1. So this patch removes the check.
For example when you do:
zfs send pp/fs0@001 | zfs recv pp/fs0_copy
This will easily deadlock before this patch.
Also, move the seq_task check from taskq_thread_spawn() to taskq_thread()
because it's not used by the caller from taskq_dispatch().
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#496
Illumos does not have direct reclaim and code run inside taskq worker
threads is not designed to deal with it. Allowing direct reclaim inside
a worker thread can therefore deadlock. We set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO through
memalloc_noio_save() to indicate to the kernel's reclaim code that we
are inside a context where memory allocations cannot be allowed to block
on filesystem activity.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#1274
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#2390
Closes#474
When dynamic taskq is enabled and all threads for a taskq are occupied,
a recursive dispatch can cause a deadlock if calling thread depends on
the recursively-dispatched thread for its return condition.
This patch attempts to create a new thread for recursive dispatch when
none are available.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#472
This reverts commit 076821e due to a locking issue uncovered in
subsequent testing. An ASSERT is hit due to tq->tq_nspawn being
updated outside the lock. The patch will need to be reworked.
VERIFY3(0 == tq->tq_nspawn) failed (0 == -1)
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #472
When dynamic taskq is enabled and all threads for a taskq are occupied,
a recursive dispatch can cause a deadlock if calling thread depends on
the recursively-dispatched thread for its return condition.
This patch attempts to create a new thread for recursive dispatch when
none are available.
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#472
On Linux the meaning of a processes priority is inverted with respect
to illumos. High values on Linux indicate a _low_ priority while high
value on illumos indicate a _high_ priority.
In order to preserve the logical meaning of the minclsyspri and
maxclsyspri macros when they are used by the illumos wrapper functions
their values have been inverted. This way when changes are merged
from upstream illumos we won't need to remember to invert the macro.
It could also lead to confusion.
Note this change also reverts some of the priorities changes in prior
commit 62aa81a. The rational is as follows:
spl_kmem_cache - High priority may result in blocked memory allocs
spl_system_taskq - May perform I/O for file backed VDEVs
spl_dynamic_taskq - New taskq threads should be spawned promptly
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#3607
Add a new defclsyspri macro which can be used to request the default
Linux scheduler priority. Neither the minclsyspri or maxclsyspri map
to the default Linux kernel thread priority. This makes it awkward to
create taskqs which run with the same priority as the rest of the kernel
threads on the system which can lead to performance issues.
All SPL callers which previously used minclsyspri or maxclsyspri have
been changed to use defclsyspri. The vast majority of callers were
part of the test suite which won't have an external impact. The few
places where it could impact performance the change was from maxclsyspri
to defclsyspri. This makes it more likely the process will be scheduled
which may help performance.
To facilitate further performance analysis the spl_taskq_thread_priority
module option has been added. When disabled (0) all newly created kernel
threads will use the default kernel thread priority. When enabled (1)
the specified taskq priority will be used. By default this value is
enabled (1).
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Add the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag to the kmem_cache and system taskqs
to reduce the number of idle threads on the system. Additional
threads will be created on demand up to the previous maximum
thread counts. This should have minimal, if any, impact on
performance.
This makes the system taskq consistent with illumos which is
always created as a dynamic taskq with up to 64 threads.
The task limits for the kmem_cache have been increased to avoid
any unnessisary throttling and to keep a larger reserve of
task_t structures on the free list.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#458
Setting the TASKQ_DYNAMIC flag will create a taskq with dynamic
semantics. Initially only a single worker thread will be created
to service tasks dispatched to the queue. As additional threads
are needed they will be dynamically spawned up to the max number
specified by 'nthreads'. When the threads are no longer needed,
because the taskq is empty, they will automatically terminate.
Due to the low cost of creating and destroying threads under Linux
by default new threads and spawned and terminated aggressively.
There are two modules options which can be tuned to adjust this
behavior if needed.
* spl_taskq_thread_sequential - The number of sequential tasks,
without interruption, which needed to be handled by a worker
thread before a new worker thread is spawned. Default 4.
* spl_taskq_thread_dynamic - Provides the ability to completely
disable the use of dynamic taskqs on the system. This is provided
for the purposes of debugging and troubleshooting. Default 1
(enabled).
This behavior is fundamentally consistent with the dynamic taskq
implementation found in both illumos and FreeBSD.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes#458
Under Illumos taskq_wait() returns when there are no more tasks
in the queue. This behavior differs from ZoL and FreeBSD where
taskq_wait() returns when all the tasks in the queue at the
beginning of the taskq_wait() call are complete. New tasks
added whilst taskq_wait() is running will be ignored.
This difference in semantics makes it possible that new subtle
issues could be introduced when porting changes from Illumos.
To avoid that possibility the taskq_wait() function is being
updated such that it blocks until the queue in empty.
The previous behavior remains available through the
taskq_wait_outstanding() interface. Note that this function
was previously called taskq_wait_all() but has been renamed
to avoid confusion.
Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#455
When the SPL was originally written Linux tracepoints were still
in their infancy. Therefore, an entire debugging subsystem was
added to facilite tracing which served us well for many years.
Now that Linux tracepoints have matured they provide all the
functionality of the previous tracing subsystem. Rather than
maintain parallel functionality it makes sense to fully adopt
tracepoints. Therefore, this patch retires the legacy debugging
infrastructure.
See zfsonlinux/zfs@bc9f413 for the tracepoint changes.
Signed-off-by: Ned Bass <bass6@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#408
The problem is described in commit aeeb4e0c0a.
However, instead of disabling the binding to CPU altogether we just keep the
last CPU index across calls to taskq_create() and thus achieve even
distribution of the taskq threads across all available CPUs.
The implementation based on assumption that task queues initialization
performed in serial manner.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andrey.vesnovaty@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vesnovaty <andreyv@infinidat.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#336
Provide spl_kthread_create() as a wrapper to the kernel's kthread_create()
to provide pre-3.13 semantics. Re-try if the call is interrupted or if it
would have returned -ENOMEM. Otherwise return NULL.
Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <tuxoko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#339
When this code was written it appears to have been assumed that
every taskq would have a large number of threads. In this case
it would make sense to attempt to evenly bind the threads over
all available CPUs. However, it failed to consider that creating
taskqs with a small number of threads will cause the CPUs with
lower ids become over-subscribed.
For this reason the kthread_bind() call is being removed and
we're leaving the kernel to schedule these threads as it sees fit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#325
The existing taskq_wait_id() function can incorrectly block
indefinitely. Reimplement it more simply using wait_event()
in a similar fashion to taskq_wait_all().
This flaw was uncovered in the context of moving vn_rdwr() to
a taskq. Previously taskq_wait_id() had no consumers outside
the SPLAT task framework which is why the issue went unnoticed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Update links to refer to the official ZFS on Linux website instead of
@behlendorf's personal fork on github.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Add the ability to dispatch a delayed task to a taskq. The desired
behavior is for the task to be queued but not executed by a worker
thread until the expiration time is reached. To achieve this two
new functions were added.
* taskq_dispatch_delay() -
This function behaves exactly like taskq_dispatch() however it
takes a third 'expire_time' argument. The caller should pass the
desired time the task should be executed as an absolute value in
jiffies. The task is guarenteed not to run before this time, it
may run slightly latter if all the worker threads are busy.
* taskq_cancel_id() -
Given a task id attempt to cancel the task before it gets executed.
This is primarily useful for canceling delay tasks but can be used for
canceling any previously dispatched task. There are three possible
return values.
0 - The task was found and canceled before it was executed.
ENOENT - The task was not found, either it was already run or an
invalid task id was supplied by the caller.
EBUSY - The task is currently executing any may not be canceled.
This function will block until the task has been completed.
* taskq_wait_all() -
The taskq_wait_id() function was renamed taskq_wait_all() to more
clearly reflect its actual behavior. It is only curreny used by
the splat taskq regression tests.
* taskq_wait_id() -
Historically, the only difference between this function and
taskq_wait() was that you passed the task id. In both functions you
would block until ALL lower task ids which executed. This was
semantically correct but could be very slow particularly if there
were delay tasks submitted.
To better accomidate the delay tasks this function was reimplemnted.
It will now only block until the passed task id has been completed.
This is actually a fairly low risk change for a few reasons.
* Only new ZFS callers will make use of the new interfaces and
very little common code was changed to support the new functions.
* The existing taskq_wait() implementation was not changed just
slightly refactored.
* The newly optimized taskq_wait_id() implementation was never
used by ZFS we can't accidentally introduce a new bug there.
NOTE: This functionality does not exist in the Illumos taskqs.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When the taskq implementation was originally written I wrapped all
the API functions in #define's. This was done as a preventative
measure to ensure that a taskq symbol never conflicted with an
existing kernel symbol.
However, in practice the taskq symbols never conflicted. The only
major conflicts occured with the kmem cache API. Since this added
layer of obfuscation never bought us anything for the taskq's I'm
removing it.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Update the taskq implementation to conform with the style used
throughout the rest of the code. There are no functional
changes in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
When the taskq code was originally written it seemed like a good
idea to simply map TQ_SLEEP to KM_SLEEP. Unfortunately, this
assumed that the TQ_* flags would never confict with any of the
Linux GFP_* flags. When adding the TQ_PUSHPAGE support in commit
cd5ca4b this invariant was accidentally broken.
Therefore to support TQ_PUSHPAGE, which is needed for Linux, and
prevent any further confusion I have removed this direct mapping.
The TQ_SLEEP, TQ_NOSLEEP, and TQ_PUSHPAGE are no longer defined
in terms of their KM_* counterparts. Instead a simple mapping
function is introduce to convert TQ_* -> KM_* where needed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #171
This reverts commit cd5ca4b2f8
due to conflicts in the higher TQ_ bits which caused incorrect
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Under certain circumstances the following functions may be called
in a context where KM_SLEEP is unsafe and can result in a deadlocked
system. To avoid this problem the unconditional KM_SLEEPs are
converted to KM_PUSHPAGEs. This will prevent them from attempting
to initiate any I/O during direct reclaim.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This reverts commit 372c257233. The
use of the PF_MEMALLOC flag was always a hack to work around memory
reclaim deadlocks. Those issues are believed to be resolved so this
workaround can be safely reverted.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
As of the removal of the taskq work list made in commit:
commit 2c02b71b14
Author: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Date: Mon Dec 5 17:32:48 2011 -0800
Replace tq_work_list and tq_threads in taskq_t
To lay the ground work for introducing the taskq_dispatch_prealloc()
interface, the tq_work_list and tq_threads fields had to be replaced
with new alternatives in the taskq_t structure.
the comment above taskq_wait_check has been incorrect. This change is an
attempt at bringing that description more in line with the current
implementation. Essentially, references to the old task work list had to
be updated to reference the new taskq thread active list.
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #65
Testing has shown that tq->tq_lock can be highly contended when a
large number of small work items are dispatched. The lock hold time
is reduced by the following changes:
1) Use exclusive threads in the work_waitq
When a single work item is dispatched we only need to wake a single
thread to service it. The current implementation uses non-exclusive
threads so all threads are woken when the dispatcher calls wake_up().
If a large number of threads are in the queue this overhead can become
non-negligible.
2) Conditionally add/remove threads from work waitq
Taskq threads need only add themselves to the work wait queue if
there are no pending work items.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #32
This reverts commit ec2b41049f.
A race condition was introduced by which a wake_up() call can be lost
after the taskq thread determines there is no pending work items,
leading to deadlock:
1. taksq thread enables interrupts
2. dispatcher thread runs, queues work item, call wake_up()
3. taskq thread runs, adds self to waitq, sleeps
This could easily happen if an interrupt for an IO completion was
outstanding at the point where the taskq thread reenables interrupts,
just before the call to add_wait_queue_exclusive(). The handler would
run immediately within the race window.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #32
Testing has shown that tq->tq_lock can be highly contended when a
large number of small work items are dispatched. The lock hold time
is reduced by the following changes:
1) Use exclusive threads in the work_waitq
When a single work item is dispatched we only need to wake a single
thread to service it. The current implementation uses non-exclusive
threads so all threads are woken when the dispatcher calls wake_up().
If a large number of threads are in the queue this overhead can become
non-negligible.
2) Conditionally add/remove threads from work waitq outside of tq_lock
Taskq threads need only add themselves to the work wait queue if there
are no pending work items. Furthermore, the add and remove function
calls can be made outside of the taskq lock since the wait queues are
protected from concurrent access by their own spinlocks.
3) Call wake_up() outside of tq->tq_lock
Again, the wait queues are protected by their own spinlock, so the
dispatcher functions can drop tq->tq_lock before calling wake_up().
A new splat test taskq:contention was added in a prior commit to measure
the impact of these changes. The following table summarizes the
results using data from the kernel lock profiler.
tq_lock time %diff Wall clock (s) %diff
original: 39117614.10 0 41.72 0
exclusive threads: 31871483.61 18.5 34.2 18.0
unlocked add/rm waitq: 13794303.90 64.7 16.17 61.2
unlocked wake_up(): 1589172.08 95.9 16.61 60.2
Each row reflects the average result over 5 test runs.
/proc/lock_stats was zeroed out before and collected after each run.
Column 1 is the cumulative hold time in microseconds for tq->tq_lock.
The tests are cumulative; each row reflects the code changes of the
previous rows. %diff is calculated with respect to "original" as
100*(orig-new)/orig.
Although calling wake_up() outside of the taskq lock dramatically
reduced the taskq lock hold time, the test actually took slightly more
wall clock time. This is because the point of contention shifts from
the taskq lock to the wait queue lock. But the change still seems
worthwhile since it removes our taskq implementation as a bottleneck,
assuming the small increase in wall clock time to be statistical
noise.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#32
A preallocated taskq_ent_t's tqent_flags must be checked prior to
servicing the taskq_ent_t. Once a preallocated taskq entry is serviced,
the ownership of the entry is handed back to the caller of
taskq_dispatch, thus the entry's contents can potentially be mangled.
In particular, this is a problem in the case where a preallocated taskq
entry is serviced, and the caller clears it's tqent_flags field. Thus,
when the function returns and task_done is called, it looks as though
the entry is **not** a preallocated task (when in fact it **is** a
preallocated task).
In this situation, task_done will place the preallocated taskq_ent_t
structure onto the taskq_t's free list. This is a **huge** mistake. If
the taskq_ent_t is then freed by the caller of taskq_dispatch, the
taskq_t's free list will hold a pointer to garbage data. Even worse, if
nothing has over written the freed memory before the pointer is
dereferenced, it may still look as though it points to a valid list_head
belonging to a taskq_ent_t structure.
Thus, the task entry's flags are now copied prior to servicing the task.
This copy is then checked to see if it is a preallocated task, and
determine if the entry needs to be passed down to the task_done
function.
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes#71
The taskq_t's active thread list is sorted based on its
tqt_ent->tqent_id field. The list is kept sorted solely by inserting
new taskq_thread_t's in their correct sorted location; no other
means is used. This means that once inserted, if a taskq_thread_t's
tqt_ent->tqent_id field changes, the list runs the risk of no
longer being sorted.
Prior to the introduction of the taskq_dispatch_prealloc() interface,
this was not a problem as a taskq_ent_t actively being serviced under
the old interface should always have a static tqent_id field. Thus,
once the taskq_thread_t is added to the taskq_t's active thread list,
the taskq_thread_t's tqt_ent->tqent_id field would remain constant.
Now, this is no longer the case. Currently, if using the
taskq_dispatch_prealloc() interface, any given taskq_ent_t actively
being serviced _may_ have its tqent_id value incremented. This happens
when the preallocated taskq_ent_t structure is recursively dispatched.
Thus, a taskq_thread_t could potentially have its tqt_ent->tqent_id
field silently modified from under its feet. If this were to happen
to a taskq_thread_t on a taskq_t's active thread list, this would
compromise the integrity of the order of the list (as the list
_may_ no longer be sorted).
To get around this, the taskq_thread_t's taskq_ent_t pointer was
replaced with its own static copy of the tqent_id. So, as a taskq_ent_t
is pulled off of the taskq_t's pending list, a static copy of its
tqent_id is made and this copy is used to sort the active thread
list. Using a static copy is key in ensuring the integrity of the
order of the active thread list. Even if the underlying taskq_ent_t
is recursively dispatched (as has its tqent_id modified), this
static copy stored inside the taskq_thread_t will remain constant.
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #71
This patch implements the taskq_dispatch_prealloc() interface which
was introduced by the following illumos-gate commit. It allows for
a preallocated taskq_ent_t to be used when dispatching items to a
taskq. This eliminates a memory allocation which helps minimize
lock contention in the taskq when dispatching functions.
commit 5aeb94743e3be0c51e86f73096334611ae3a058e
Author: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@nexenta.com>
Date: Wed Jul 27 07:13:44 2011 -0700
734 taskq_dispatch_prealloc() desired
943 zio_interrupt ends up calling taskq_dispatch with TQ_SLEEP
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #65
To lay the ground work for introducing the taskq_dispatch_prealloc()
interface, the tq_work_list and tq_threads fields had to be replaced
with new alternatives in the taskq_t structure.
The tq_threads field was replaced with tq_thread_list. Rather than
storing the pointers to the taskq's kernel threads in an array, they are
now stored as a list. In addition to laying the ground work for the
taskq_dispatch_prealloc() interface, this change could also enable taskq
threads to be dynamically created and destroyed as threads can now be
added and removed to this list relatively easily.
The tq_work_list field was replaced with tq_active_list. Instead of
keeping a list of taskq_ent_t's which are currently being serviced, a
list of taskq_threads currently servicing a taskq_ent_t is kept. This
frees up the taskq_ent_t's tqent_list field when it is being serviced
(i.e. now when a taskq_ent_t is being serviced, it's tqent_list field
will be empty).
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #65
The spl_task structure was renamed to taskq_ent, and all of
its fields were renamed to have a prefix of 'tqent' rather
than 't'. This was to align with the naming convention which
the ZFS code assumes. Previously these fields were private
so the name never mattered.
Signed-off-by: Prakash Surya <surya1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #65
It has become necessary to be able to optionally disable
direct memory reclaim for certain taskqs. To support
this the TASKQ_NORECLAIM flags has been added which sets
the PF_MEMALLOC bit for all threads in the taskq.
