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For a long time now the kernel has been moving away from using the pdflush daemon to write 'old' dirty pages to disk. The primary reason for this is because the pdflush daemon is single threaded and can be a limiting factor for performance. Since pdflush sequentially walks the dirty inode list for each super block any delay in processing can slow down dirty page writeback for all filesystems. The replacement for pdflush is called bdi (backing device info). The bdi system involves creating a per-filesystem control structure each with its own private sets of queues to manage writeback. The advantage is greater parallelism which improves performance and prevents a single filesystem from slowing writeback to the others. For a long time both systems co-existed in the kernel so it wasn't strictly required to implement the bdi scheme. However, as of Linux 2.6.36 kernels the pdflush functionality has been retired. Since ZFS already bypasses the page cache for most I/O this is only an issue for mmap(2) writes which must go through the page cache. Even then adding this missing support for newer kernels was overlooked because there are other mechanisms which can trigger writeback. However, there is one critical case where not implementing the bdi functionality can cause problems. If an application handles a page fault it can enter the balance_dirty_pages() callpath. This will result in the application hanging until the number of dirty pages in the system drops below the dirty ratio. Without a registered backing_device_info for the filesystem the dirty pages will not get written out. Thus the application will hang. As mentioned above this was less of an issue with older kernels because pdflush would eventually write out the dirty pages. This change adds a backing_device_info structure to the zfs_sb_t which is already allocated per-super block. It is then registered when the filesystem mounted and unregistered on unmount. It will not be registered for mounted snapshots which are read-only. This change will result in flush-<pool> thread being dynamically created and destroyed per-mounted filesystem for writeback. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #174
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2.5 KiB
C
85 lines
2.5 KiB
C
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* CDDL HEADER START
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*
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* The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
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* Common Development and Distribution License (the "License").
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* You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*
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* You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE
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* or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing.
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* See the License for the specific language governing permissions
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* and limitations under the License.
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*
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* When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each
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* file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE.
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* If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the
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* fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying
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* information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]
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*
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* CDDL HEADER END
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*/
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/*
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* Copyright (C) 2011 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
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*/
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#ifndef _ZFS_VFS_H
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#define _ZFS_VFS_H
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/*
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* 2.6.28 API change,
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* Added insert_inode_locked() helper function, prior to this most callers
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* used insert_inode_hash(). The older method doesn't check for collisions
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* in the inode_hashtable but it still acceptible for use.
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*/
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#ifndef HAVE_INSERT_INODE_LOCKED
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static inline int
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insert_inode_locked(struct inode *ip)
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{
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insert_inode_hash(ip);
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return (0);
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}
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#endif /* HAVE_INSERT_INODE_LOCKED */
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/*
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* 2.6.35 API change,
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* Add truncate_setsize() if it is not exported by the Linux kernel.
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*
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* Truncate the inode and pages associated with the inode. The pages are
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* unmapped and removed from cache.
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*/
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#ifndef HAVE_TRUNCATE_SETSIZE
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static inline void
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truncate_setsize(struct inode *ip, loff_t new)
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{
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struct address_space *mapping = ip->i_mapping;
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i_size_write(ip, new);
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unmap_mapping_range(mapping, new + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 1);
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truncate_inode_pages(mapping, new);
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unmap_mapping_range(mapping, new + PAGE_SIZE - 1, 0, 1);
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}
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#endif /* HAVE_TRUNCATE_SETSIZE */
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/*
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* 2.6.32 API change,
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* Added backing_device_info (bdi) per super block interfaces. When
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* available a bdi must be configured when using a non-device backed
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* filesystem for proper writeback. It's safe to leave this code
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* dormant for kernels which only support pdflush and not bdi.
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*/
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#ifdef HAVE_BDI
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#define bdi_get_sb(sb) (sb->s_bdi)
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#define bdi_put_sb(sb, bdi) (sb->s_bdi = bdi)
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#else
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#define bdi_init(bdi) (0)
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#define bdi_destroy(bdi) (0)
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#define bdi_register(bdi, parent, fmt, args) (0)
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#define bdi_unregister(bdi) (0)
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#define bdi_get_sb(sb) (0)
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#define bdi_put_sb(sb, bdi) (0)
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#endif /* HAVE_BDI */
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#endif /* _ZFS_VFS_H */
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