Commit b1092c9af9 ("bcache: allow quick writeback when backing idle")
allows the writeback rate to be faster if there is no I/O request on a
bcache device. It works well if there is only one bcache device attached
to the cache set. If there are many bcache devices attached to a cache
set, it may introduce performance regression because multiple faster
writeback threads of the idle bcache devices will compete the btree level
locks with the bcache device who have I/O requests coming.
This patch fixes the above issue by only permitting fast writebac when
all bcache devices attached on the cache set are idle. And if one of the
bcache devices has new I/O request coming, minimized all writeback
throughput immediately and let PI controller __update_writeback_rate()
to decide the upcoming writeback rate for each bcache device.
Also when all bcache devices are idle, limited wrieback rate to a small
number is wast of thoughput, especially when backing devices are slower
non-rotation devices (e.g. SATA SSD). This patch sets a max writeback
rate for each backing device if the whole cache set is idle. A faster
writeback rate in idle time means new I/Os may have more available space
for dirty data, and people may observe a better write performance then.
Please note bcache may change its cache mode in run time, and this patch
still works if the cache mode is switched from writeback mode and there
is still dirty data on cache.
Fixes: Commit b1092c9af9 ("bcache: allow quick writeback when backing idle")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.16+
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Tested-by: Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There is couple of functions that are used exclusively in sysfs.c.
Move it to there and make them static.
Besides above, it will allow further clean up.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Avoid that building with W=1 triggers warnings about the kernel-doc
headers.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch avoids that building with W=1 triggers complaints about
switch fall-throughs.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bcache is the only user of bio_alloc_pages(), so move this function into
bcache, and avoid it being misused in the future.
Also rename it to bch_bio_allo_pages() since it is bcache only.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
All direct access to bvec table are safe even after multipage bvec is
supported.
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sorry this got through to linux-block, was detected by the kbuilds test
robot. NSEC_PER_SEC is a long constant; 2.5 * 10^9 doesn't fit in a
signed long constant.
Fixes: e41166c5c4 ("bcache: writeback rate shouldn't artifically clamp")
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This works in conjunction with the new PI controller. Currently, in
real-world workloads, the rate controller attempts to write back 1
sector per second. In practice, these minimum-rate writebacks are
between 4k and 60k in test scenarios, since bcache aggregates and
attempts to do contiguous writes and because filesystems on top of
bcachefs typically write 4k or more.
Previously, bcache used to guarantee to write at least once per second.
This means that the actual writeback rate would exceed the configured
amount by a factor of 8-120 or more.
This patch adjusts to be willing to sleep up to 2.5 seconds, and to
target writing 4k/second. On the smallest writes, it will sleep 1
second like before, but many times it will sleep longer and load the
backing device less. This keeps the loading on the cache and backing
device related to writeback more consistent when writing back at low
rates.
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Most importantly, solve a crash where %llu was used to format signed
numbers. This would cause a buffer overflow when reading sysfs
writeback_rate_debug, as only 20 bytes were allocated for this and
%llu writes 20 characters plus a null.
Always use the units mechanism rather than having different output
paths for simplicity.
Also, correct problems with display output where 1.10 was a larger
number than 1.09, by multiplying by 10 and then dividing by 1024 instead
of dividing by 100. (Remainders of >= 1000 would print as .10).
Minor changes: Always display the decimal point instead of trying to
omit it based on number of digits shown. Decide what units to use
based on 1000 as a threshold, not 1024 (in other words, always print
at most 3 digits before the decimal point).
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reported-by: Dmitry Yu Okunev <dyokunev@ut.mephi.ru>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core
Needed to bring blk-mq uptodate, since changes have been going in
since for-3.14/core was established.
Fixup merge issues related to the immutable biovec changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Conflicts:
block/blk-flush.c
fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c
fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
fs/btrfs/scrub.c
fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
The old writeback PD controller could get into states where it had throttled all
the way down and take way too long to recover - it was too complicated to really
understand what it was doing.
This rewrites a good chunk of it to hopefully be simpler and make more sense,
and it also pays more attention to units which should make the behaviour a bit
easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Background writeback works by scanning the btree for dirty data and
adding those keys into a fixed size buffer, then for each dirty key in
the keybuf writing it to the backing device.
When read_dirty() finishes and it's time to scan for more dirty data, we
need to wait for the outstanding writeback IO to finish - they still
take up slots in the keybuf (so that foreground writes can check for
them to avoid races) - without that wait, we'll continually rescan when
we'll be able to add at most a key or two to the keybuf, and that takes
locks that starves foreground IO. Doh.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some of bcache's utility code has made it into the rest of the kernel,
so drop the bcache versions.
Bcache used to have a workaround for allocating from a bio set under
generic_make_request() (if you allocated more than once, the bios you
already allocated would get stuck on current->bio_list when you
submitted, and you'd risk deadlock) - bcache would mask out __GFP_WAIT
when allocating bios under generic_make_request() so that allocation
could fail and it could retry from workqueue. But bio_alloc_bioset() has
a workaround now, so we can drop this hack and the associated error
handling.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
