kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/bcache/writeback.c, branch v3.18.100

bcache: fix for gc and write-back race

2017-09-27T08:57:21+00:00

bcache: correct cache_dirty_target in __update_writeback_rate()

2017-09-27T08:57:21+00:00

commit a8394090a9129b40f9d90dcb7f4a49d60c727ca6 upstream. __update_write_rate() uses a Proportion-Differentiation Controller algorithm to control writeback rate. A dirty target number is used in this PD controller to control writeback rate. A larger target number will make the writeback rate smaller, on the versus, a smaller target number will make the writeback rate larger. bcache uses the following steps to calculate the target number, 1) cache_sectors = all-buckets-of-cache-set * buckets-size 2) cache_dirty_target = cache_sectors * cached-device-writeback_percent 3) target = cache_dirty_target * (sectors-of-cached-device/sectors-of-all-cached-devices-of-this-cache-set) The calculation at step 1) for cache_sectors is incorrect, which does not consider dirty blocks occupied by flash only volume. A flash only volume can be took as a bcache device without cached device. All data sectors allocated for it are persistent on cache device and marked dirty, they are not touched by bcache writeback and garbage collection code. So data blocks of flash only volume should be ignore when calculating cache_sectors of cache set. Current code does not subtract dirty sectors of flash only volume, which results a larger target number from the above 3 steps. And in sequence the cache device's writeback rate is smaller then a correct value, writeback speed is slower on all cached devices. This patch fixes the incorrect slower writeback rate by subtracting dirty sectors of flash only volumes in __update_writeback_rate(). (Commit log composed by Coly Li to pass checkpatch.pl checking) Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Reviewed-by: Coly Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bcache: initialize dirty stripes in flash_dev_run()

2017-09-27T08:57:21+00:00

commit 175206cf9ab63161dec74d9cd7f9992e062491f5 upstream. bcache uses a Proportion-Differentiation Controller algorithm to control writeback rate to cached devices. In the PD controller algorithm, dirty stripes of thin flash device should not be counted in, because flash only volumes never write back dirty data. Currently dirty stripe counter for thin flash device is not initialized when the thin flash device starts. Which means the following calculation in PD controller will reference an undefined dirty stripes number, and all cached devices attached to the same cache set where the thin flash device lies on may have an inaccurate writeback rate. This patch calles bch_sectors_dirty_init() in flash_dev_run(), to correctly initialize dirty stripe counter when the thin flash device starts to run. This patch also does following parameter data type change, -void bch_sectors_dirty_init(struct cached_dev *dc); +void bch_sectors_dirty_init(struct bcache_device *); to call this function conveniently in flash_dev_run(). (Commit log is composed by Coly Li) Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui Reviewed-by: Coly Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

bcache: Change refill_dirty() to always scan entire disk if necessary

2016-02-10T03:56:17+00:00

[ Upstream commit 627ccd20b4ad3ba836472468208e2ac4dfadbf03 ] Previously, it would only scan the entire disk if it was starting from the very start of the disk - i.e. if the previous scan got to the end. This was broken by refill_full_stripes(), which updates last_scanned so that refill_dirty was never triggering the searched_from_start path. But if we change refill_dirty() to always scan the entire disk if necessary, regardless of what last_scanned was, the code gets cleaner and we fix that bug too. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

bcache: fix uninterruptible sleep in writeback thread

2014-08-04T22:23:03+00:00

There were two issues here: - writeback thread did not start until the device first became dirty - writeback thread used uninterruptible sleep once running Without this patch I see kernel warnings printed and a load average of 1.52 after booting my test VM. With this patch the warnings are gone and the load average is near 0.00 as expected. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into for-3.14/core

2013-12-31T16:51:02+00:00

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 Conflicts: block/blk-flush.c fs/btrfs/check-integrity.c fs/btrfs/extent_io.c fs/btrfs/scrub.c fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

bcache: New writeback PD controller

2013-12-16T22:22:59+00:00

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

bcache: Use uninterruptible sleep in writeback

2013-12-16T22:04:57+00:00

We're just waiting on kthread_should_stop(), nothing else, so interruptible sleep was wrong here. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

bcache: kthread don't set writeback task to INTERUPTIBLE

2013-12-16T22:04:57+00:00

at the beginning (schedule_timout_interuptible) and others do his on their own This prevents wrong load average calculation (load of 1 per thread) Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames things. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Lars Ellenberg Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Yehuda Sadeh Cc: Sage Weil Cc: Alex Elder Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Joshua Morris Cc: Philip Kelleher Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Benny Halevy Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Chris Mason Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Joern Engel Cc: Prasad Joshi Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Ben Myers Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Len Brown Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Guo Chao Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Asai Thambi S P Cc: Selvan Mani Cc: Sam Bradshaw Cc: Wei Yongjun Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Ian Campbell Cc: Sebastian Ott Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Nitin Gupta Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Peng Tao Cc: Andy Adamson Cc: fanchaoting Cc: Jie Liu Cc: Sunil Mushran Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Pankaj Kumar Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Mel Gorman 6