On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:34 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:49 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> > After the dirty page has been written to unstable storage, it marks the
> > inode using I_DIRTY_DATASYNC, which should then ensure that the VFS
> > calls write_inode() on the next pass through __sync_single_inode.
> 
> > I'd rather like to see fs/fs-writeback.c do this correctly (assuming
> > that it is incorrect now).
> 
> balance_dirty_pages()
>   wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_NONE;
>   writeback_inodes()
>     sync_sb_inodes()
>       __writeback_single_inode()
>         __sync_single_inode()
>           write_inode()
>             nfs_write_inode()
> 
> Ah, yes, I see. That ought to work.
> 
> /me goes verify he didn't mess it up himself...

And of course I did. This seems to work.

The problem I had was that throttle_vm_writeout() got stuck on commit
pages. But that can be solved with a much much simpler and better
solution. Force all swap traffic to be |FLUSH_STABLE, unstable swap
space doesn't make sense anyway :-)

So with that out of the way I now have this

---

Subject: nfs: fix congestion control

The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the backing
device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't mirror this in
nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks. Also it implements its own waitqueue.

Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on the
number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 fs/nfs/write.c              |  113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 include/linux/backing-dev.h |    1 
 include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h   |    1 
 mm/backing-dev.c            |   16 ++++++
 4 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/nfs/write.c   2007-01-19 13:57:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/fs/nfs/write.c        2007-01-19 14:03:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_wdata_cach
 static mempool_t *nfs_wdata_mempool;
 static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool;
 
-static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(nfs_write_congestion);
-
 struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commit_alloc(void)
 {
        struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
@@ -245,6 +243,39 @@ static int wb_priority(struct writeback_
 }
 
 /*
+ * NFS congestion control
+ */
+
+static unsigned long nfs_congestion_pages;
+
+#define NFS_CONGESTION_ON_THRESH       nfs_congestion_pages
+#define NFS_CONGESTION_OFF_THRESH      \
+       (NFS_CONGESTION_ON_THRESH - (NFS_CONGESTION_ON_THRESH >> 2))
+
+static inline void nfs_set_page_writeback(struct page *page)
+{
+       if (!test_set_page_writeback(page)) {
+               struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+               struct nfs_server *nfss = NFS_SERVER(inode);
+
+               if (atomic_inc_return(&nfss->writeback) > 
NFS_CONGESTION_ON_THRESH)
+                       set_bdi_congested(&nfss->backing_dev_info, WRITE);
+       }
+}
+
+static inline void nfs_end_page_writeback(struct page *page)
+{
+       struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
+       struct nfs_server *nfss = NFS_SERVER(inode);
+
+       end_page_writeback(page);
+       if (atomic_dec_return(&nfss->writeback) < NFS_CONGESTION_OFF_THRESH) {
+               clear_bdi_congested(&nfss->backing_dev_info, WRITE);
+               congestion_end(WRITE);
+       }
+}
+
+/*
  * Find an associated nfs write request, and prepare to flush it out
  * Returns 1 if there was no write request, or if the request was
  * already tagged by nfs_set_page_dirty.Returns 0 if the request
@@ -281,7 +312,7 @@ static int nfs_page_mark_flush(struct pa
        spin_unlock(req_lock);
        if (test_and_set_bit(PG_FLUSHING, &req->wb_flags) == 0) {
                nfs_mark_request_dirty(req);
-               set_page_writeback(page);
+               nfs_set_page_writeback(page);
        }
        ret = test_bit(PG_NEED_FLUSH, &req->wb_flags);
        nfs_unlock_request(req);
@@ -336,13 +367,8 @@ int nfs_writepage(struct page *page, str
        return err; 
 }
 
-/*
- * Note: causes nfs_update_request() to block on the assumption
- *      that the writeback is generated due to memory pressure.
- */
 int nfs_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control 
*wbc)
 {
-       struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
        struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
        int err;
 
@@ -351,11 +377,6 @@ int nfs_writepages(struct address_space 
        err = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
        if (err)
                return err;
-       while (test_and_set_bit(BDI_write_congested, &bdi->state) != 0) {
-               if (wbc->nonblocking)
-                       return 0;
-               nfs_wait_on_write_congestion(mapping, 0);
-       }
        err = nfs_flush_mapping(mapping, wbc, wb_priority(wbc));
        if (err < 0)
                goto out;
@@ -369,9 +390,6 @@ int nfs_writepages(struct address_space 
        if (err > 0)
                err = 0;
 out:
-       clear_bit(BDI_write_congested, &bdi->state);
-       wake_up_all(&nfs_write_congestion);
-       congestion_end(WRITE);
        return err;
 }
 
@@ -401,7 +419,7 @@ static int nfs_inode_add_request(struct 
 }
 
 /*
- * Insert a write request into an inode
+ * Remove a write request from an inode
  */
 static void nfs_inode_remove_request(struct nfs_page *req)
 {
@@ -585,8 +603,8 @@ static inline int nfs_scan_commit(struct
 
 static int nfs_wait_on_write_congestion(struct address_space *mapping, int 
intr)
 {
+       struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
        struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info;
-       DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
        int ret = 0;
 
        might_sleep();
@@ -594,31 +612,27 @@ static int nfs_wait_on_write_congestion(
        if (!bdi_write_congested(bdi))
                return 0;
 
-       nfs_inc_stats(mapping->host, NFSIOS_CONGESTIONWAIT);
+       nfs_inc_stats(inode, NFSIOS_CONGESTIONWAIT);
 
-       if (intr) {
-               struct rpc_clnt *clnt = NFS_CLIENT(mapping->host);
-               sigset_t oldset;
-
-               rpc_clnt_sigmask(clnt, &oldset);
-               prepare_to_wait(&nfs_write_congestion, &wait, 
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-               if (bdi_write_congested(bdi)) {
-                       if (signalled())
-                               ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
-                       else
-                               schedule();
+       do {
+               if (intr) {
+                       struct rpc_clnt *clnt = NFS_CLIENT(inode);
+                       sigset_t oldset;
+
+                       rpc_clnt_sigmask(clnt, &oldset);
+                       ret = congestion_wait_interruptible(WRITE, HZ/10);
+                       rpc_clnt_sigunmask(clnt, &oldset);
+                       if (ret == -ERESTARTSYS)
+                               return ret;
+                       ret = 0;
+               } else {
+                       congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
                }
-               rpc_clnt_sigunmask(clnt, &oldset);
-       } else {
-               prepare_to_wait(&nfs_write_congestion, &wait, 
TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-               if (bdi_write_congested(bdi))
-                       schedule();
-       }
-       finish_wait(&nfs_write_congestion, &wait);
+       } while (bdi_write_congested(bdi));
+
        return ret;
 }
 
-
 /*
  * Try to update any existing write request, or create one if there is none.
  * In order to match, the request's credentials must match those of
@@ -779,7 +793,7 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st
 
 static void nfs_writepage_release(struct nfs_page *req)
 {
-       end_page_writeback(req->wb_page);
+       nfs_end_page_writeback(req->wb_page);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NFS_V3) || defined(CONFIG_NFS_V4)
        if (!PageError(req->wb_page)) {
@@ -1095,12 +1109,12 @@ static void nfs_writeback_done_full(stru
                        ClearPageUptodate(page);
                        SetPageError(page);
                        req->wb_context->error = task->tk_status;
-                       end_page_writeback(page);
+                       nfs_end_page_writeback(page);
                        nfs_inode_remove_request(req);
                        dprintk(", error = %d\n", task->tk_status);
                        goto next;
                }
-               end_page_writeback(page);
+               nfs_end_page_writeback(page);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_NFS_V3) || defined(CONFIG_NFS_V4)
                if (data->args.stable != NFS_UNSTABLE || data->verf.committed 
== NFS_FILE_SYNC) {
@@ -1565,6 +1579,23 @@ int __init nfs_init_writepagecache(void)
        if (nfs_commit_mempool == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       /*
+        * NFS congestion size, scale with available memory.
+        *
+        *  64MB:    8192k
+        * 128MB:   11585k
+        * 256MB:   16384k
+        * 512MB:   23170k
+        *   1GB:   32768k
+        *   2GB:   46340k
+        *   4GB:   65536k
+        *   8GB:   92681k
+        *  16GB:  131072k
+        *
+        * This allows larger machines to have larger/more transfers.
+        */
+       nfs_congestion_size = 32*int_sqrt(totalram_pages);
+
        return 0;
 }
 
Index: linux-2.6-git/mm/backing-dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/mm/backing-dev.c 2007-01-19 13:57:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/mm/backing-dev.c      2007-01-19 13:57:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -55,6 +55,22 @@ long congestion_wait(int rw, long timeou
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait);
 
+long congestion_wait_interruptible(int rw, long timeout)
+{
+       long ret;
+       DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
+       wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &congestion_wqh[rw];
+
+       prepare_to_wait(wqh, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+       if (signal_pending(current))
+               ret = -ERESTARTSYS;
+       else
+               ret = io_schedule_timeout(timeout);
+       finish_wait(wqh, &wait);
+       return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait_interruptible);
+
 /**
  * congestion_end - wake up sleepers on a congested backing_dev_info
  * @rw: READ or WRITE
Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h        2007-01-19 
13:57:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h     2007-01-19 13:57:52.000000000 
+0100
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct nfs_server {
        struct rpc_clnt *       client_acl;     /* ACL RPC client handle */
        struct nfs_iostats *    io_stats;       /* I/O statistics */
        struct backing_dev_info backing_dev_info;
+       atomic_t                writeback;      /* number of writeback pages */
        int                     flags;          /* various flags */
        unsigned int            caps;           /* server capabilities */
        unsigned int            rsize;          /* read size */
Index: linux-2.6-git/include/linux/backing-dev.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-git.orig/include/linux/backing-dev.h      2007-01-19 
13:57:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-git/include/linux/backing-dev.h   2007-01-19 13:57:52.000000000 
+0100
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ static inline int bdi_rw_congested(struc
 void clear_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int rw);
 void set_bdi_congested(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, int rw);
 long congestion_wait(int rw, long timeout);
+long congestion_wait_interruptible(int rw, long timeout);
 void congestion_end(int rw);
 
 #define bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi) \


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