[Devel] [RFC PATCH vz9 5/5] ploop: convert wait_list and wb_batch_llist to use lockless lists

Denis V. Lunev den at virtuozzo.com
Wed Oct 9 19:09:28 MSK 2024


On 10/7/24 13:12, Alexander Atanasov wrote:
> Convert to lockless lists - intermix with regular list due to
> that next pointer in both list_head and llist_head is the first
> field, and prev is not used. Do this so we can make babysteps
> forward.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
>   drivers/md/dm-ploop-bat.c    |  3 +--
>   drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c    | 48 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c |  2 +-
>   drivers/md/dm-ploop.h        |  6 ++---
>   4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-bat.c b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-bat.c
> index 0fce5ed998d6..3c233af2ba7d 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-bat.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-bat.c
> @@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ static struct md_page *ploop_alloc_md_page(u32 id)
>   	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (!page)
>   		goto err_page;
> -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->wait_list);
> -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->wb_link);
> +	init_llist_head(&md->wait_llist);
>   
>   	md->status = 0;
>   	md->bat_levels = levels;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
> index b0f60a6a6fd7..ada7603e289a 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
> @@ -382,13 +382,14 @@ static bool ploop_delay_if_md_busy(struct ploop *ploop, struct md_page *md,
>   
>   	WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&pio->list));
>   
> -	write_lock_irqsave(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
> +	/* lock protects piwb */
> +	read_lock_irqsave(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   	piwb = md->piwb;
>   	if (piwb && (piwb->type != type || test_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status))) {
> -		list_add_tail(&pio->list, &md->wait_list);
> +		llist_add((struct llist_node *)(&pio->list), &md->wait_llist);
>   		busy = true;
>   	}
> -	write_unlock_irqrestore(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
> +	read_unlock_irqrestore(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   
>   	return busy;
>   }
> @@ -547,16 +548,13 @@ static void ploop_unlink_completed_pio(struct ploop *ploop, struct pio *pio)
>   
>   static bool ploop_md_make_dirty(struct ploop *ploop, struct md_page *md)
>   {
> -	unsigned long flags;
>   	bool new = false;
>   
> -	write_lock_irqsave(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   	WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status));
>   	if (!test_and_set_bit(MD_DIRTY, &md->status)) {
> -		list_add_tail(&md->wb_link, &ploop->wb_batch_list);
> +		llist_add(&md->wb_llink, &ploop->wb_batch_llist);
>   		new = true;
>   	}
> -	write_unlock_irqrestore(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   
>   	return new;
>   }
> @@ -758,7 +756,9 @@ static void ploop_advance_local_after_bat_wb(struct ploop *ploop,
>   	map_index_t *dst_clu, off;
>   	unsigned long flags;
>   	LIST_HEAD(list);
> -
> +	struct llist_node *wait_llist_pending;
> +	struct pio *pio;
> +	struct llist_node *pos, *t;
>   	BUG_ON(!md);
>   	bat_entries = md->kmpage;
>   
> @@ -775,7 +775,6 @@ static void ploop_advance_local_after_bat_wb(struct ploop *ploop,
>   		i = PLOOP_MAP_OFFSET;
>   
>   	dst_clu = piwb->kmpage;
> -	write_lock_irqsave(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   
>   	for (; i < last; i++) {
>   		if (piwb->type == PIWB_TYPE_DISCARD) {
> @@ -802,10 +801,20 @@ static void ploop_advance_local_after_bat_wb(struct ploop *ploop,
>   
>   	WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status));
>   	clear_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status);
> +	/* protect piwb */
> +	write_lock_irqsave(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   	md->piwb = NULL;
> -	list_splice_tail_init(&md->wait_list, &list);
>   	write_unlock_irqrestore(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
>   
> +	wait_llist_pending = llist_del_all(&md->wait_llist);
> +	if (wait_llist_pending) {
> +		wait_llist_pending = llist_reverse_order(wait_llist_pending);
> +		llist_for_each_safe(pos, t, wait_llist_pending) {
> +			pio = list_entry((struct list_head *)pos, typeof(*pio), list);
> +			list_add(&pio->list, &list);
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>   	if (!list_empty(&list))
>   		ploop_dispatch_pios(ploop, NULL, &list);
>   }
> @@ -1758,22 +1767,17 @@ static void ploop_process_resubmit_pios(struct ploop *ploop,
>   static void ploop_submit_metadata_writeback(struct ploop *ploop)
>   {
>   	struct md_page *md;
> -	while (1) {
> -		write_lock_irq(&ploop->bat_rwlock);
> -		md = list_first_entry_or_null(&ploop->wb_batch_list,
> -				struct md_page, wb_link);
> -		if (!md) {
> -			write_unlock_irq(&ploop->bat_rwlock);
> -			break;
> -		}
> -		list_del_init(&md->wb_link);
> -		/* L1L2 mustn't be redirtyed, when wb in-flight! */
> +	struct md_page *t;
> +	struct llist_node *wbl;
> +	wbl = llist_del_all(&ploop->wb_batch_llist);
> +	if (!wbl)
> +		return;
> +	wbl = llist_reverse_order(wbl);
> +	llist_for_each_entry_safe(md, t, wbl, wb_llink) {
>   		WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(MD_DIRTY, &md->status));
>   		WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status));
>   		set_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status);
>   		clear_bit(MD_DIRTY, &md->status);
> -		write_unlock_irq(&ploop->bat_rwlock);
> -
>   		ploop_index_wb_submit(ploop, md->piwb);
>   	}
>   }
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c
> index 8b3b840dea66..b66ae3a9a4b0 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-target.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int ploop_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ploop->resubmit_pios);
>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ploop->enospc_pios);
>   	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ploop->cluster_lk_list);
> -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ploop->wb_batch_list);
> +	init_llist_head(&ploop->wb_batch_llist);
>   	ploop->bat_entries = RB_ROOT;
>   	timer_setup(&ploop->enospc_timer, ploop_enospc_timer, 0);
>   
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h b/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
> index 5fa176affc4e..4a64a06d0713 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
> @@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ struct md_page {
>   	struct page *page;
>   	void *kmpage;
>   	u8 *bat_levels;
> -	struct list_head wait_list;
> +	struct llist_head wait_llist;
>   
> -	struct list_head wb_link;
> +	struct llist_node wb_llink;
>   	struct ploop_index_wb *piwb;
>   };
>   
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct ploop {
>   	u32 hb_nr; /* holes_bitmap size in bits */
>   	rwlock_t bat_rwlock;
>   
> -	struct list_head wb_batch_list;
> +	struct llist_head wb_batch_llist;
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Hash table to link non-exclusive submitted bios.
No changes so far.

I observe
[w(1)][52.5%][w=644MiB/s][w=165k IOPS][eta 00m:28s] <- 1 thread, partition
1 (f=1): [w(1)][15.0%][w=715MiB/s][w=183k IOPS][eta 00m:51s] <- thread 
device
[w(12)][25.0%][w=1376MiB/s][w=352k IOPS][eta 00m:45s] <- 12 threads


Do we expect to have a difference right now?

Den

P.S. These patches are applied
0001-ploop-fsync-after-all-pios-are-sent.patch
0002-ploop-kmap-all-md_pages-at-creation-time.patch
0003-ploop-Use-READ_ONCE-WRITE_ONCE-to-access-md-page-dat.patch
0004-ploop-move-md-status-to-use-proper-bitops.patch
0005-ploop-remove-unneccessary-lock.patch
0006-ploop-reduce-the-time-lock-is-hold-taking-it-only-to.patch
0007-ploop-convert-wait_list-and-wb_batch_llist-to-use-lo.patch


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