[Devel] [PATCH RHEL9 COMMIT] dm-ploop: make md writeback timeout to be per page

Konstantin Khorenko khorenko at virtuozzo.com
Mon Jan 27 16:12:42 MSK 2025


The commit is pushed to "branch-rh9-5.14.0-427.44.1.vz9.80.x-ovz" and will appear at git at bitbucket.org:openvz/vzkernel.git
after rh9-5.14.0-427.44.1.vz9.80.6
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commit fbaa63e5ce1f82a6c2d24eb8d8750fd7001cdfc2
Author: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov at virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 24 17:36:02 2025 +0200

    dm-ploop: make md writeback timeout to be per page
    
    Do not bulk write all dirtied bat pages in a common timeout.
    Instead mark dirty time for each page and delay for each page
    by the timeout. If page is tried to be redirtied - update the
    dirty time so for hot page try to accumulate more changes before
    writeout.
    
    https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-91817
    Signed-off-by: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov at virtuozzo.com>
    
    ======
    Patchset description:
    ploop: optimistations and scalling
    
    Ploop processes requsts in a different threads in parallel
    where possible which results in significant improvement in
    performance and makes further optimistations possible.
    
    Known bugs:
      - delayed metadata writeback is not working and is missing error handling
         - patch to disable it until fixed
      - fast path is not working - causes rcu lockups - patch to disable it
    
    Further improvements:
      - optimize md pages lookups
    
    Alexander Atanasov (50):
      dm-ploop: md_pages map all pages at creation time
      dm-ploop: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE to access md page data
      dm-ploop: fsync after all pios are sent
      dm-ploop: move md status to use proper bitops
      dm-ploop: convert wait_list and wb_batch_llist to use lockless lists
      dm-ploop: convert enospc handling to use lockless lists
      dm-ploop: convert suspended_pios list to use lockless list
      dm-ploop: convert the rest of the lists to use llist variant
      dm-ploop: combine processing of pios thru prepare list and remove
        fsync worker
      dm-ploop: move from wq to kthread
      dm-ploop: move preparations of pios into the caller from worker
      dm-ploop: fast path execution for reads
      dm-ploop: do not use a wrapper for set_bit to make a page writeback
      dm-ploop: BAT use only one list for writeback
      dm-ploop: make md writeback timeout to be per page
      dm-ploop: add interface to disable bat writeback delay
      dm-ploop: convert wb_batch_list to lockless variant
      dm-ploop: convert high_prio to status
      dm-ploop: split cow processing into two functions
      dm-ploop: convert md page rw lock to spin lock
      dm-ploop: convert bat_rwlock to bat_lock spinlock
      dm-ploop: prepare bat updates under bat_lock
      dm-ploop: make ploop_bat_write_complete ready for parallel pio
        completion
      dm-ploop: make ploop_submit_metadata_writeback return number of
        requests sent
      dm-ploop: introduce pio runner threads
      dm-ploop: add pio list ids to be used when passing pios to runners
      dm-ploop: process pios via runners
      dm-ploop: disable metadata writeback delay
      dm-ploop: disable fast path
      dm-ploop: use lockless lists for chained cow updates list
      dm-ploop: use lockless lists for data ready pios
      dm-ploop: give runner threads better name
      dm-ploop: resize operation - add holes bitmap locking
      dm-ploop: remove unnecessary operations
      dm-ploop: use filp per thread
      dm-ploop: catch if we try to advance pio past bio end
      dm-ploop: support REQ_FUA for data pios
      dm-ploop: proplerly access nr_bat_entries
      dm-ploop: fix locking and improve error handling when submitting pios
      dm-ploop: fix how ENOTBLK is handled
      dm-ploop: sync when suspended or stopping
      dm-ploop: rework bat completion logic
      dm-ploop: rework logic in pio processing
      dm-ploop: end fsync pios in parallel
      dm-ploop: make filespace preallocations async
      dm-ploop: resubmit enospc pios from dispatcher thread
      dm-ploop: dm-ploop: simplify discard completion
      dm-ploop: use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_NOIO
      dm-ploop: fix locks used in mixed context
      dm-ploop: fix how current flags are managed inside threads
    
    Andrey Zhadchenko (13):
      dm-ploop: do not flush after metadata writes
      dm-ploop: set IOCB_DSYNC on all FUA requests
      dm-ploop: remove extra ploop_cluster_is_in_top_delta()
      dm-ploop: introduce per-md page locking
      dm-ploop: reduce BAT accesses on discard completion
      dm-ploop: simplify llseek
      dm-ploop: speed up ploop_prepare_bat_update()
      dm-ploop: make new allocations immediately visible in BAT
      dm-ploop: drop ploop_cluster_is_in_top_delta()
      dm-ploop: do not wait for BAT update for non-FUA requests
      dm-ploop: add delay for metadata writeback
      dm-ploop: submit all postponed metadata on REQ_OP_FLUSH
      dm-ploop: handle REQ_PREFLUSH
    
    Feature: dm-ploop: ploop target driver
---
 drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c | 10 ++++------
 drivers/md/dm-ploop.h     |  1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
index 2419d60e3ec6..40c3cb00856d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop-map.c
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ static bool ploop_md_make_dirty(struct ploop *ploop, struct md_page *md)
 		new = true;
 	}
 	write_unlock_irqrestore(&ploop->bat_rwlock, flags);
+	md->dirty_timeout = jiffies + ploop->md_submit_delay_ms*HZ/1000;
+
 	return new;
 }
 
@@ -1829,14 +1831,10 @@ static void ploop_process_resubmit_pios(struct ploop *ploop,
 
 static void ploop_submit_metadata_writeback(struct ploop *ploop)
 {
-	ktime_t ktime, ktimeout;
 	LIST_HEAD(ll_skipped);
 	struct md_page *md, *mtmp;
-	int send_all;
+	unsigned long timeout = jiffies;
 
-	ktime = ktime_get();
-	ktimeout = ktime_add_ms(ktime, ploop->md_submit_delay_ms);
-	send_all = ktime_after(ktime, ktimeout);
 	/*
 	 * Pages are set dirty so no one must touch lists
 	 * if new md entries are dirtied they are added at the start of the list
@@ -1844,7 +1842,7 @@ static void ploop_submit_metadata_writeback(struct ploop *ploop)
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(md, mtmp, &ploop->wb_batch_list, wb_link) {
 		write_lock_irq(&ploop->bat_rwlock);
 		list_del_init(&md->wb_link);
-		if (md->high_prio || send_all) {
+		if (md->high_prio || time_before(md->dirty_timeout, timeout)) {
 			/* L1L2 mustn't be redirtyed, when wb in-flight! */
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_bit(MD_DIRTY, &md->status));
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(test_bit(MD_WRITEBACK, &md->status));
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h b/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
index 02612339405c..fa2b02910296 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ploop.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ struct md_page {
 	spinlock_t md_lock;
 
 	bool high_prio;
+	unsigned long dirty_timeout;
 };
 
 enum {


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