dm cache: be much more aggressive about promoting writes to discarded blocks

Previously these promotions only got priority if there were unused cache
blocks.  Now we give them priority if there are any clean blocks in the
cache.

The fio_soak_test in the device-mapper-test-suite now gives uniform
performance across subvolumes (~16 seconds).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 63 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c
index 6710e038c730..444f0bf10b21 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-policy-mq.c
@@ -151,6 +151,21 @@ static void queue_init(struct queue *q)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Checks to see if the queue is empty.
+ * FIXME: reduce cpu usage.
+ */
+static bool queue_empty(struct queue *q)
+{
+	unsigned i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < NR_QUEUE_LEVELS; i++)
+		if (!list_empty(q->qs + i))
+			return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
  * Insert an entry to the back of the given level.
  */
 static void queue_push(struct queue *q, unsigned level, struct list_head *elt)
@@ -442,6 +457,11 @@ static bool any_free_cblocks(struct mq_policy *mq)
 	return mq->nr_cblocks_allocated < from_cblock(mq->cache_size);
 }
 
+static bool any_clean_cblocks(struct mq_policy *mq)
+{
+	return !queue_empty(&mq->cache_clean);
+}
+
 /*
  * Fills result out with a cache block that isn't in use, or return
  * -ENOSPC.  This does _not_ mark the cblock as allocated, the caller is
@@ -688,17 +708,18 @@ static int demote_cblock(struct mq_policy *mq, dm_oblock_t *oblock, dm_cblock_t
 static unsigned adjusted_promote_threshold(struct mq_policy *mq,
 					   bool discarded_oblock, int data_dir)
 {
-	if (discarded_oblock && any_free_cblocks(mq) && data_dir == WRITE)
+	if (data_dir == READ)
+		return mq->promote_threshold + READ_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD;
+
+	if (discarded_oblock && (any_free_cblocks(mq) || any_clean_cblocks(mq))) {
 		/*
 		 * We don't need to do any copying at all, so give this a
-		 * very low threshold.  In practice this only triggers
-		 * during initial population after a format.
+		 * very low threshold.
 		 */
 		return DISCARDED_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD;
+	}
 
-	return data_dir == READ ?
-		(mq->promote_threshold + READ_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD) :
-		(mq->promote_threshold + WRITE_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD);
+	return mq->promote_threshold + WRITE_PROMOTE_THRESHOLD;
 }
 
 static bool should_promote(struct mq_policy *mq, struct entry *e,
@@ -772,6 +793,17 @@ static int pre_cache_entry_found(struct mq_policy *mq, struct entry *e,
 	return r;
 }
 
+static void insert_entry_in_pre_cache(struct mq_policy *mq,
+				      struct entry *e, dm_oblock_t oblock)
+{
+	e->in_cache = false;
+	e->dirty = false;
+	e->oblock = oblock;
+	e->hit_count = 1;
+	e->generation = mq->generation;
+	push(mq, e);
+}
+
 static void insert_in_pre_cache(struct mq_policy *mq,
 				dm_oblock_t oblock)
 {
@@ -789,30 +821,41 @@ static void insert_in_pre_cache(struct mq_policy *mq,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	e->in_cache = false;
-	e->dirty = false;
-	e->oblock = oblock;
-	e->hit_count = 1;
-	e->generation = mq->generation;
-	push(mq, e);
+	insert_entry_in_pre_cache(mq, e, oblock);
 }
 
 static void insert_in_cache(struct mq_policy *mq, dm_oblock_t oblock,
 			    struct policy_result *result)
 {
+	int r;
 	struct entry *e;
 	dm_cblock_t cblock;
 
 	if (find_free_cblock(mq, &cblock) == -ENOSPC) {
-		result->op = POLICY_MISS;
-		insert_in_pre_cache(mq, oblock);
-		return;
-	}
+		r = demote_cblock(mq, &result->old_oblock, &cblock);
+		if (unlikely(r)) {
+			result->op = POLICY_MISS;
+			insert_in_pre_cache(mq, oblock);
+			return;
+		}
 
-	e = alloc_entry(mq);
-	if (unlikely(!e)) {
-		result->op = POLICY_MISS;
-		return;
+		/*
+		 * This will always succeed, since we've just demoted.
+		 */
+		e = pop(mq, &mq->pre_cache);
+		result->op = POLICY_REPLACE;
+
+	} else {
+		e = alloc_entry(mq);
+		if (unlikely(!e))
+			e = pop(mq, &mq->pre_cache);
+
+		if (unlikely(!e)) {
+			result->op = POLICY_MISS;
+			return;
+		}
+
+		result->op = POLICY_NEW;
 	}
 
 	e->oblock = oblock;
@@ -823,7 +866,6 @@ static void insert_in_cache(struct mq_policy *mq, dm_oblock_t oblock,
 	e->generation = mq->generation;
 	push(mq, e);
 
-	result->op = POLICY_NEW;
 	result->cblock = e->cblock;
 }