linux-stable/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c

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xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Copyright (c) 2010 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it would be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write the Free Software Foundation,
* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
#include "xfs.h"
#include "xfs_fs.h"
#include "xfs_format.h"
#include "xfs_log_format.h"
#include "xfs_shared.h"
#include "xfs_trans_resv.h"
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
#include "xfs_mount.h"
#include "xfs_error.h"
#include "xfs_alloc.h"
#include "xfs_extent_busy.h"
#include "xfs_discard.h"
#include "xfs_trans.h"
#include "xfs_trans_priv.h"
#include "xfs_log.h"
#include "xfs_log_priv.h"
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Allocate a new ticket. Failing to get a new ticket makes it really hard to
* recover, so we don't allow failure here. Also, we allocate in a context that
* we don't want to be issuing transactions from, so we need to tell the
* allocation code this as well.
*
* We don't reserve any space for the ticket - we are going to steal whatever
* space we require from transactions as they commit. To ensure we reserve all
* the space required, we need to set the current reservation of the ticket to
* zero so that we know to steal the initial transaction overhead from the
* first transaction commit.
*/
static struct xlog_ticket *
xlog_cil_ticket_alloc(
struct xlog *log)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
{
struct xlog_ticket *tic;
tic = xlog_ticket_alloc(log, 0, 1, XFS_TRANSACTION, 0,
KM_SLEEP|KM_NOFS);
/*
* set the current reservation to zero so we know to steal the basic
* transaction overhead reservation from the first transaction commit.
*/
tic->t_curr_res = 0;
return tic;
}
/*
* After the first stage of log recovery is done, we know where the head and
* tail of the log are. We need this log initialisation done before we can
* initialise the first CIL checkpoint context.
*
* Here we allocate a log ticket to track space usage during a CIL push. This
* ticket is passed to xlog_write() directly so that we don't slowly leak log
* space by failing to account for space used by log headers and additional
* region headers for split regions.
*/
void
xlog_cil_init_post_recovery(
struct xlog *log)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
{
log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->ticket = xlog_cil_ticket_alloc(log);
log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->sequence = 1;
}
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
static inline int
xlog_cil_iovec_space(
uint niovecs)
{
return round_up((sizeof(struct xfs_log_vec) +
niovecs * sizeof(struct xfs_log_iovec)),
sizeof(uint64_t));
}
/*
* Allocate or pin log vector buffers for CIL insertion.
*
* The CIL currently uses disposable buffers for copying a snapshot of the
* modified items into the log during a push. The biggest problem with this is
* the requirement to allocate the disposable buffer during the commit if:
* a) does not exist; or
* b) it is too small
*
* If we do this allocation within xlog_cil_insert_format_items(), it is done
* under the xc_ctx_lock, which means that a CIL push cannot occur during
* the memory allocation. This means that we have a potential deadlock situation
* under low memory conditions when we have lots of dirty metadata pinned in
* the CIL and we need a CIL commit to occur to free memory.
*
* To avoid this, we need to move the memory allocation outside the
* xc_ctx_lock, but because the log vector buffers are disposable, that opens
* up a TOCTOU race condition w.r.t. the CIL committing and removing the log
* vector buffers between the check and the formatting of the item into the
* log vector buffer within the xc_ctx_lock.
*
* Because the log vector buffer needs to be unchanged during the CIL push
* process, we cannot share the buffer between the transaction commit (which
* modifies the buffer) and the CIL push context that is writing the changes
* into the log. This means skipping preallocation of buffer space is
* unreliable, but we most definitely do not want to be allocating and freeing
* buffers unnecessarily during commits when overwrites can be done safely.
*
* The simplest solution to this problem is to allocate a shadow buffer when a
* log item is committed for the second time, and then to only use this buffer
* if necessary. The buffer can remain attached to the log item until such time
* it is needed, and this is the buffer that is reallocated to match the size of
* the incoming modification. Then during the formatting of the item we can swap
* the active buffer with the new one if we can't reuse the existing buffer. We
* don't free the old buffer as it may be reused on the next modification if
* it's size is right, otherwise we'll free and reallocate it at that point.
*
* This function builds a vector for the changes in each log item in the
* transaction. It then works out the length of the buffer needed for each log
* item, allocates them and attaches the vector to the log item in preparation
* for the formatting step which occurs under the xc_ctx_lock.
*
* While this means the memory footprint goes up, it avoids the repeated
* alloc/free pattern that repeated modifications of an item would otherwise
* cause, and hence minimises the CPU overhead of such behaviour.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_alloc_shadow_bufs(
struct xlog *log,
struct xfs_trans *tp)
{
struct xfs_log_item_desc *lidp;
list_for_each_entry(lidp, &tp->t_items, lid_trans) {
struct xfs_log_item *lip = lidp->lid_item;
struct xfs_log_vec *lv;
int niovecs = 0;
int nbytes = 0;
int buf_size;
bool ordered = false;
/* Skip items which aren't dirty in this transaction. */
if (!(lidp->lid_flags & XFS_LID_DIRTY))
continue;
/* get number of vecs and size of data to be stored */
lip->li_ops->iop_size(lip, &niovecs, &nbytes);
/*
* Ordered items need to be tracked but we do not wish to write
* them. We need a logvec to track the object, but we do not
* need an iovec or buffer to be allocated for copying data.
*/
if (niovecs == XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED) {
ordered = true;
niovecs = 0;
nbytes = 0;
}
/*
* We 64-bit align the length of each iovec so that the start
* of the next one is naturally aligned. We'll need to
* account for that slack space here. Then round nbytes up
* to 64-bit alignment so that the initial buffer alignment is
* easy to calculate and verify.
*/
nbytes += niovecs * sizeof(uint64_t);
nbytes = round_up(nbytes, sizeof(uint64_t));
/*
* The data buffer needs to start 64-bit aligned, so round up
* that space to ensure we can align it appropriately and not
* overrun the buffer.
*/
buf_size = nbytes + xlog_cil_iovec_space(niovecs);
/*
* if we have no shadow buffer, or it is too small, we need to
* reallocate it.
*/
if (!lip->li_lv_shadow ||
buf_size > lip->li_lv_shadow->lv_size) {
/*
* We free and allocate here as a realloc would copy
* unecessary data. We don't use kmem_zalloc() for the
* same reason - we don't need to zero the data area in
* the buffer, only the log vector header and the iovec
* storage.
*/
kmem_free(lip->li_lv_shadow);
lv = kmem_alloc(buf_size, KM_SLEEP|KM_NOFS);
memset(lv, 0, xlog_cil_iovec_space(niovecs));
lv->lv_item = lip;
lv->lv_size = buf_size;
if (ordered)
lv->lv_buf_len = XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED;
else
lv->lv_iovecp = (struct xfs_log_iovec *)&lv[1];
lip->li_lv_shadow = lv;
} else {
/* same or smaller, optimise common overwrite case */
lv = lip->li_lv_shadow;
if (ordered)
lv->lv_buf_len = XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED;
else
lv->lv_buf_len = 0;
lv->lv_bytes = 0;
lv->lv_next = NULL;
}
/* Ensure the lv is set up according to ->iop_size */
lv->lv_niovecs = niovecs;
/* The allocated data region lies beyond the iovec region */
lv->lv_buf = (char *)lv + xlog_cil_iovec_space(niovecs);
}
}
/*
* Prepare the log item for insertion into the CIL. Calculate the difference in
* log space and vectors it will consume, and if it is a new item pin it as
* well.
*/
STATIC void
xfs_cil_prepare_item(
struct xlog *log,
struct xfs_log_vec *lv,
struct xfs_log_vec *old_lv,
int *diff_len,
int *diff_iovecs)
{
/* Account for the new LV being passed in */
if (lv->lv_buf_len != XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED) {
xfs: log vector rounding leaks log space The addition of direct formatting of log items into the CIL linear buffer added alignment restrictions that the start of each vector needed to be 64 bit aligned. Hence padding was added in xlog_finish_iovec() to round up the vector length to ensure the next vector started with the correct alignment. This adds a small number of bytes to the size of the linear buffer that is otherwise unused. The issue is that we then use the linear buffer size to determine the log space used by the log item, and this includes the unused space. Hence when we account for space used by the log item, it's more than is actually written into the iclogs, and hence we slowly leak this space. This results on log hangs when reserving space, with threads getting stuck with these stack traces: Call Trace: [<ffffffff81d15989>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8150d3a2>] xlog_grant_head_wait+0xa2/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8150d55d>] xlog_grant_head_check+0xbd/0x140 [<ffffffff8150ee33>] xfs_log_reserve+0x103/0x220 [<ffffffff814b7f05>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x2f5/0x310 ..... The 4 bytes is significant. Brain Foster did all the hard work in tracking down a reproducable leak to inode chunk allocation (it went away with the ikeep mount option). His rough numbers were that creating 50,000 inodes leaked 11 log blocks. This turns out to be roughly 800 inode chunks or 1600 inode cluster buffers. That works out at roughly 4 bytes per cluster buffer logged, and at that I started looking for a 4 byte leak in the buffer logging code. What I found was that a struct xfs_buf_log_format structure for an inode cluster buffer is 28 bytes in length. This gets rounded up to 32 bytes, but the vector length remains 28 bytes. Hence the CIL ticket reservation is decremented by 32 bytes (via lv->lv_buf_len) for that vector rather than 28 bytes which are written into the log. The fix for this problem is to separately track the bytes used by the log vectors in the item and use that instead of the buffer length when accounting for the log space that will be used by the formatted log item. Again, thanks to Brian Foster for doing all the hard work and long hours to isolate this leak and make finding the bug relatively simple. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-05-19 22:18:09 +00:00
*diff_len += lv->lv_bytes;
*diff_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs;
}
/*
* If there is no old LV, this is the first time we've seen the item in
* this CIL context and so we need to pin it. If we are replacing the
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
* old_lv, then remove the space it accounts for and make it the shadow
* buffer for later freeing. In both cases we are now switching to the
* shadow buffer, so update the the pointer to it appropriately.
*/
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
if (!old_lv) {
lv->lv_item->li_ops->iop_pin(lv->lv_item);
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
lv->lv_item->li_lv_shadow = NULL;
} else if (old_lv != lv) {
ASSERT(lv->lv_buf_len != XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED);
xfs: log vector rounding leaks log space The addition of direct formatting of log items into the CIL linear buffer added alignment restrictions that the start of each vector needed to be 64 bit aligned. Hence padding was added in xlog_finish_iovec() to round up the vector length to ensure the next vector started with the correct alignment. This adds a small number of bytes to the size of the linear buffer that is otherwise unused. The issue is that we then use the linear buffer size to determine the log space used by the log item, and this includes the unused space. Hence when we account for space used by the log item, it's more than is actually written into the iclogs, and hence we slowly leak this space. This results on log hangs when reserving space, with threads getting stuck with these stack traces: Call Trace: [<ffffffff81d15989>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8150d3a2>] xlog_grant_head_wait+0xa2/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8150d55d>] xlog_grant_head_check+0xbd/0x140 [<ffffffff8150ee33>] xfs_log_reserve+0x103/0x220 [<ffffffff814b7f05>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x2f5/0x310 ..... The 4 bytes is significant. Brain Foster did all the hard work in tracking down a reproducable leak to inode chunk allocation (it went away with the ikeep mount option). His rough numbers were that creating 50,000 inodes leaked 11 log blocks. This turns out to be roughly 800 inode chunks or 1600 inode cluster buffers. That works out at roughly 4 bytes per cluster buffer logged, and at that I started looking for a 4 byte leak in the buffer logging code. What I found was that a struct xfs_buf_log_format structure for an inode cluster buffer is 28 bytes in length. This gets rounded up to 32 bytes, but the vector length remains 28 bytes. Hence the CIL ticket reservation is decremented by 32 bytes (via lv->lv_buf_len) for that vector rather than 28 bytes which are written into the log. The fix for this problem is to separately track the bytes used by the log vectors in the item and use that instead of the buffer length when accounting for the log space that will be used by the formatted log item. Again, thanks to Brian Foster for doing all the hard work and long hours to isolate this leak and make finding the bug relatively simple. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-05-19 22:18:09 +00:00
*diff_len -= old_lv->lv_bytes;
*diff_iovecs -= old_lv->lv_niovecs;
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
lv->lv_item->li_lv_shadow = old_lv;
}
/* attach new log vector to log item */
lv->lv_item->li_lv = lv;
/*
* If this is the first time the item is being committed to the
* CIL, store the sequence number on the log item so we can
* tell in future commits whether this is the first checkpoint
* the item is being committed into.
*/
if (!lv->lv_item->li_seq)
lv->lv_item->li_seq = log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->sequence;
}
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Format log item into a flat buffers
*
* For delayed logging, we need to hold a formatted buffer containing all the
* changes on the log item. This enables us to relog the item in memory and
* write it out asynchronously without needing to relock the object that was
* modified at the time it gets written into the iclog.
*
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
* This function takes the prepared log vectors attached to each log item, and
* formats the changes into the log vector buffer. The buffer it uses is
* dependent on the current state of the vector in the CIL - the shadow lv is
* guaranteed to be large enough for the current modification, but we will only
* use that if we can't reuse the existing lv. If we can't reuse the existing
* lv, then simple swap it out for the shadow lv. We don't free it - that is
* done lazily either by th enext modification or the freeing of the log item.
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
*
* We don't set up region headers during this process; we simply copy the
* regions into the flat buffer. We can do this because we still have to do a
* formatting step to write the regions into the iclog buffer. Writing the
* ophdrs during the iclog write means that we can support splitting large
* regions across iclog boundares without needing a change in the format of the
* item/region encapsulation.
*
* Hence what we need to do now is change the rewrite the vector array to point
* to the copied region inside the buffer we just allocated. This allows us to
* format the regions into the iclog as though they are being formatted
* directly out of the objects themselves.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_insert_format_items(
struct xlog *log,
struct xfs_trans *tp,
int *diff_len,
int *diff_iovecs)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
{
struct xfs_log_item_desc *lidp;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/* Bail out if we didn't find a log item. */
if (list_empty(&tp->t_items)) {
ASSERT(0);
return;
}
list_for_each_entry(lidp, &tp->t_items, lid_trans) {
struct xfs_log_item *lip = lidp->lid_item;
struct xfs_log_vec *lv;
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
struct xfs_log_vec *old_lv = NULL;
struct xfs_log_vec *shadow;
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
bool ordered = false;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/* Skip items which aren't dirty in this transaction. */
if (!(lidp->lid_flags & XFS_LID_DIRTY))
continue;
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
/*
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
* The formatting size information is already attached to
* the shadow lv on the log item.
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
*/
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
shadow = lip->li_lv_shadow;
if (shadow->lv_buf_len == XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED)
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
ordered = true;
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
/* Skip items that do not have any vectors for writing */
if (!shadow->lv_niovecs && !ordered)
continue;
/* compare to existing item size */
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
old_lv = lip->li_lv;
if (lip->li_lv && shadow->lv_size <= lip->li_lv->lv_size) {
/* same or smaller, optimise common overwrite case */
lv = lip->li_lv;
lv->lv_next = NULL;
if (ordered)
goto insert;
/*
* set the item up as though it is a new insertion so
* that the space reservation accounting is correct.
*/
*diff_iovecs -= lv->lv_niovecs;
xfs: log vector rounding leaks log space The addition of direct formatting of log items into the CIL linear buffer added alignment restrictions that the start of each vector needed to be 64 bit aligned. Hence padding was added in xlog_finish_iovec() to round up the vector length to ensure the next vector started with the correct alignment. This adds a small number of bytes to the size of the linear buffer that is otherwise unused. The issue is that we then use the linear buffer size to determine the log space used by the log item, and this includes the unused space. Hence when we account for space used by the log item, it's more than is actually written into the iclogs, and hence we slowly leak this space. This results on log hangs when reserving space, with threads getting stuck with these stack traces: Call Trace: [<ffffffff81d15989>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff8150d3a2>] xlog_grant_head_wait+0xa2/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8150d55d>] xlog_grant_head_check+0xbd/0x140 [<ffffffff8150ee33>] xfs_log_reserve+0x103/0x220 [<ffffffff814b7f05>] xfs_trans_reserve+0x2f5/0x310 ..... The 4 bytes is significant. Brain Foster did all the hard work in tracking down a reproducable leak to inode chunk allocation (it went away with the ikeep mount option). His rough numbers were that creating 50,000 inodes leaked 11 log blocks. This turns out to be roughly 800 inode chunks or 1600 inode cluster buffers. That works out at roughly 4 bytes per cluster buffer logged, and at that I started looking for a 4 byte leak in the buffer logging code. What I found was that a struct xfs_buf_log_format structure for an inode cluster buffer is 28 bytes in length. This gets rounded up to 32 bytes, but the vector length remains 28 bytes. Hence the CIL ticket reservation is decremented by 32 bytes (via lv->lv_buf_len) for that vector rather than 28 bytes which are written into the log. The fix for this problem is to separately track the bytes used by the log vectors in the item and use that instead of the buffer length when accounting for the log space that will be used by the formatted log item. Again, thanks to Brian Foster for doing all the hard work and long hours to isolate this leak and make finding the bug relatively simple. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-05-19 22:18:09 +00:00
*diff_len -= lv->lv_bytes;
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
/* Ensure the lv is set up according to ->iop_size */
lv->lv_niovecs = shadow->lv_niovecs;
/* reset the lv buffer information for new formatting */
lv->lv_buf_len = 0;
lv->lv_bytes = 0;
lv->lv_buf = (char *)lv +
xlog_cil_iovec_space(lv->lv_niovecs);
} else {
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
/* switch to shadow buffer! */
lv = shadow;
lv->lv_item = lip;
if (ordered) {
/* track as an ordered logvec */
ASSERT(lip->li_lv == NULL);
goto insert;
}
}
ASSERT(IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long)lv->lv_buf, sizeof(uint64_t)));
lip->li_ops->iop_format(lip, lv);
insert:
xfs_cil_prepare_item(log, lv, old_lv, diff_len, diff_iovecs);
}
}
/*
* Insert the log items into the CIL and calculate the difference in space
* consumed by the item. Add the space to the checkpoint ticket and calculate
* if the change requires additional log metadata. If it does, take that space
* as well. Remove the amount of space we added to the checkpoint ticket from
* the current transaction ticket so that the accounting works out correctly.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_insert_items(
struct xlog *log,
struct xfs_trans *tp)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx = cil->xc_ctx;
struct xfs_log_item_desc *lidp;
int len = 0;
int diff_iovecs = 0;
int iclog_space;
ASSERT(tp);
/*
* We can do this safely because the context can't checkpoint until we
* are done so it doesn't matter exactly how we update the CIL.
*/
xlog_cil_insert_format_items(log, tp, &len, &diff_iovecs);
/*
* Now (re-)position everything modified at the tail of the CIL.
* We do this here so we only need to take the CIL lock once during
* the transaction commit.
*/
spin_lock(&cil->xc_cil_lock);
list_for_each_entry(lidp, &tp->t_items, lid_trans) {
struct xfs_log_item *lip = lidp->lid_item;
/* Skip items which aren't dirty in this transaction. */
if (!(lidp->lid_flags & XFS_LID_DIRTY))
continue;
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
xfs: close xc_cil list_empty() races with cil commit sequence We have seen somewhat rare reports of the following assert from xlog_cil_push_background() failing during ltp tests or somewhat innocuous desktop root fs workloads (e.g., virt operations, initramfs construction): ASSERT(!list_empty(&cil->xc_cil)); The reasoning behind the assert is that the transaction has inserted items to the CIL and hit background push codepath all with cil->xc_ctx_lock held for reading. This locks out background commit from emptying the CIL, which acquires the lock for writing. Therefore, the reasoning is that the items previously inserted in the CIL should still be present. The cil->xc_ctx_lock read lock is not sufficient to protect the xc_cil list, however, due to how CIL insertion is handled. xlog_cil_insert_items() inserts and reorders the dirty transaction items to the tail of the CIL under xc_cil_lock. It uses list_move_tail() to achieve insertion and reordering in the same block of code. This function removes and reinserts an item to the tail of the list. If a transaction commits an item that was already logged and thus already resides in the CIL, and said item is the sole item on the list, the removal and reinsertion creates a temporary state where the list is actually empty. This state is not valid and thus should never be observed by concurrent transaction commit-side checks in the circumstances outlined above. We do not want to acquire the xc_cil_lock in all of these instances as it was previously removed and replaced with a separate push lock for performance reasons. Therefore, close any races with list_empty() on the insertion side by ensuring that the list is never in a transient empty state. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2015-07-29 01:51:01 +00:00
/*
* Only move the item if it isn't already at the tail. This is
* to prevent a transient list_empty() state when reinserting
* an item that is already the only item in the CIL.
*/
if (!list_is_last(&lip->li_cil, &cil->xc_cil))
list_move_tail(&lip->li_cil, &cil->xc_cil);
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
}
xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted to the checkpoint being written. The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are physically written to disk. IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging every individual change but still maintain the full transactional integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery. This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-06-27 06:04:51 +00:00
/* account for space used by new iovec headers */
len += diff_iovecs * sizeof(xlog_op_header_t);
ctx->nvecs += diff_iovecs;
/* attach the transaction to the CIL if it has any busy extents */
if (!list_empty(&tp->t_busy))
list_splice_init(&tp->t_busy, &ctx->busy_extents);
/*
* Now transfer enough transaction reservation to the context ticket
* for the checkpoint. The context ticket is special - the unit
* reservation has to grow as well as the current reservation as we
* steal from tickets so we can correctly determine the space used
* during the transaction commit.
*/
if (ctx->ticket->t_curr_res == 0) {
ctx->ticket->t_curr_res = ctx->ticket->t_unit_res;
tp->t_ticket->t_curr_res -= ctx->ticket->t_unit_res;
}
/* do we need space for more log record headers? */
iclog_space = log->l_iclog_size - log->l_iclog_hsize;
if (len > 0 && (ctx->space_used / iclog_space !=
(ctx->space_used + len) / iclog_space)) {
int hdrs;
hdrs = (len + iclog_space - 1) / iclog_space;
/* need to take into account split region headers, too */
hdrs *= log->l_iclog_hsize + sizeof(struct xlog_op_header);
ctx->ticket->t_unit_res += hdrs;
ctx->ticket->t_curr_res += hdrs;
tp->t_ticket->t_curr_res -= hdrs;
ASSERT(tp->t_ticket->t_curr_res >= len);
}
tp->t_ticket->t_curr_res -= len;
ctx->space_used += len;
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_cil_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
}
static void
xlog_cil_free_logvec(
struct xfs_log_vec *log_vector)
{
struct xfs_log_vec *lv;
for (lv = log_vector; lv; ) {
struct xfs_log_vec *next = lv->lv_next;
kmem_free(lv);
lv = next;
}
}
/*
* Mark all items committed and clear busy extents. We free the log vector
* chains in a separate pass so that we unpin the log items as quickly as
* possible.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_committed(
void *args,
int abort)
{
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx = args;
struct xfs_mount *mp = ctx->cil->xc_log->l_mp;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commit When inserting items into the AIL from the transaction committed callbacks, we take the AIL lock for every single item that is to be inserted. For a CIL checkpoint commit, this can be tens of thousands of individual inserts, yet almost all of the items will be inserted at the same point in the AIL because they have the same index. To reduce the overhead and contention on the AIL lock for such operations, introduce a "bulk insert" operation which allows a list of log items with the same LSN to be inserted in a single operation via a list splice. To do this, we need to pre-sort the log items being committed into a temporary list for insertion. The complexity is that not every log item will end up with the same LSN, and not every item is actually inserted into the AIL. Items that don't match the commit LSN will be inserted and unpinned as per the current one-at-a-time method (relatively rare), while items that are not to be inserted will be unpinned and freed immediately. Items that are to be inserted at the given commit lsn are placed in a temporary array and inserted into the AIL in bulk each time the array fills up. As a result of this, we trade off AIL hold time for a significant reduction in traffic. lock_stat output shows that the worst case hold time is unchanged, but contention from AIL inserts drops by an order of magnitude and the number of lock traversal decreases significantly. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-12-20 01:02:19 +00:00
xfs_trans_committed_bulk(ctx->cil->xc_log->l_ailp, ctx->lv_chain,
ctx->start_lsn, abort);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
xfs_extent_busy_sort(&ctx->busy_extents);
xfs_extent_busy_clear(mp, &ctx->busy_extents,
(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DISCARD) && !abort);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* If we are aborting the commit, wake up anyone waiting on the
* committing list. If we don't, then a shutdown we can leave processes
* waiting in xlog_cil_force_lsn() waiting on a sequence commit that
* will never happen because we aborted it.
*/
spin_lock(&ctx->cil->xc_push_lock);
if (abort)
wake_up_all(&ctx->cil->xc_commit_wait);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
list_del(&ctx->committing);
spin_unlock(&ctx->cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
xlog_cil_free_logvec(ctx->lv_chain);
if (!list_empty(&ctx->busy_extents)) {
ASSERT(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_DISCARD);
xfs_discard_extents(mp, &ctx->busy_extents);
xfs_extent_busy_clear(mp, &ctx->busy_extents, false);
}
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
kmem_free(ctx);
}
/*
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
* Push the Committed Item List to the log. If @push_seq flag is zero, then it
* is a background flush and so we can chose to ignore it. Otherwise, if the
* current sequence is the same as @push_seq we need to do a flush. If
* @push_seq is less than the current sequence, then it has already been
* flushed and we don't need to do anything - the caller will wait for it to
* complete if necessary.
*
* @push_seq is a value rather than a flag because that allows us to do an
* unlocked check of the sequence number for a match. Hence we can allows log
* forces to run racily and not issue pushes for the same sequence twice. If we
* get a race between multiple pushes for the same sequence they will block on
* the first one and then abort, hence avoiding needless pushes.
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
*/
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
STATIC int
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
xlog_cil_push(
struct xlog *log)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
struct xfs_log_vec *lv;
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx;
struct xfs_cil_ctx *new_ctx;
struct xlog_in_core *commit_iclog;
struct xlog_ticket *tic;
int num_iovecs;
int error = 0;
struct xfs_trans_header thdr;
struct xfs_log_iovec lhdr;
struct xfs_log_vec lvhdr = { NULL };
xfs_lsn_t commit_lsn;
xfs_lsn_t push_seq;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
if (!cil)
return 0;
new_ctx = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*new_ctx), KM_SLEEP|KM_NOFS);
new_ctx->ticket = xlog_cil_ticket_alloc(log);
down_write(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
ctx = cil->xc_ctx;
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
push_seq = cil->xc_push_seq;
ASSERT(push_seq <= ctx->sequence);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Check if we've anything to push. If there is nothing, then we don't
* move on to a new sequence number and so we have to be able to push
* this sequence again later.
*/
if (list_empty(&cil->xc_cil)) {
cil->xc_push_seq = 0;
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
goto out_skip;
}
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
/* check for a previously pushed seqeunce */
xfs: xlog_cil_force_lsn doesn't always wait correctly When running a tight mount/unmount loop on an older kernel, RedHat QE found that unmount would occasionally hang in xfs_buf_unpin_wait() on the superblock buffer. Tracing and other debug work by Eric Sandeen indicated that it was hanging on the writing of the superblock during unmount immediately after logging the superblock counters in a synchronous transaction. Further debug indicated that the synchronous transaction was not waiting for completion correctly, and we narrowed it down to xlog_cil_force_lsn() returning NULLCOMMITLSN and hence not pushing the transaction in the iclog buffer to disk correctly. While this unmount superblock write code is now very different in mainline kernels, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() code is identical, and it was bisected to the backport of commit f876e44 ("xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue"). This commit made the CIL push asynchronous for log forces and hence exposed a race condition that couldn't occur on a synchronous push. Essentially, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() relied implicitly on the fact that the sequence push would be complete by the time xlog_cil_push_now() returned, resulting in the context being pushed being in the committing list. When it was made asynchronous, it was recognised that there was a race condition in detecting whether an asynchronous push has started or not and code was added to handle it. Unfortunately, the fix was not quite right and left a race condition where it it would detect an empty CIL while a push was in progress before the context had been added to the committing list. This was incorrectly seen as a "nothing to do" condition and so would tell xfs_log_force_lsn() that there is nothing to wait for, and hence it would push the iclogbufs in memory. The fix is simple, but explaining the logic and the race condition is a lot more complex. The fix is to add the context to the committing list before we start emptying the CIL. This allows us to detect the difference between an empty "do nothing" push and a push that has not started by adding a discrete "emptying the CIL" state to avoid the transient, incorrect "empty" condition that the (unchanged) waiting code was seeing. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-09-23 05:57:59 +00:00
if (push_seq < cil->xc_ctx->sequence) {
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
goto out_skip;
xfs: xlog_cil_force_lsn doesn't always wait correctly When running a tight mount/unmount loop on an older kernel, RedHat QE found that unmount would occasionally hang in xfs_buf_unpin_wait() on the superblock buffer. Tracing and other debug work by Eric Sandeen indicated that it was hanging on the writing of the superblock during unmount immediately after logging the superblock counters in a synchronous transaction. Further debug indicated that the synchronous transaction was not waiting for completion correctly, and we narrowed it down to xlog_cil_force_lsn() returning NULLCOMMITLSN and hence not pushing the transaction in the iclog buffer to disk correctly. While this unmount superblock write code is now very different in mainline kernels, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() code is identical, and it was bisected to the backport of commit f876e44 ("xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue"). This commit made the CIL push asynchronous for log forces and hence exposed a race condition that couldn't occur on a synchronous push. Essentially, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() relied implicitly on the fact that the sequence push would be complete by the time xlog_cil_push_now() returned, resulting in the context being pushed being in the committing list. When it was made asynchronous, it was recognised that there was a race condition in detecting whether an asynchronous push has started or not and code was added to handle it. Unfortunately, the fix was not quite right and left a race condition where it it would detect an empty CIL while a push was in progress before the context had been added to the committing list. This was incorrectly seen as a "nothing to do" condition and so would tell xfs_log_force_lsn() that there is nothing to wait for, and hence it would push the iclogbufs in memory. The fix is simple, but explaining the logic and the race condition is a lot more complex. The fix is to add the context to the committing list before we start emptying the CIL. This allows us to detect the difference between an empty "do nothing" push and a push that has not started by adding a discrete "emptying the CIL" state to avoid the transient, incorrect "empty" condition that the (unchanged) waiting code was seeing. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-09-23 05:57:59 +00:00
}
/*
* We are now going to push this context, so add it to the committing
* list before we do anything else. This ensures that anyone waiting on
* this push can easily detect the difference between a "push in
* progress" and "CIL is empty, nothing to do".
*
* IOWs, a wait loop can now check for:
* the current sequence not being found on the committing list;
* an empty CIL; and
* an unchanged sequence number
* to detect a push that had nothing to do and therefore does not need
* waiting on. If the CIL is not empty, we get put on the committing
* list before emptying the CIL and bumping the sequence number. Hence
* an empty CIL and an unchanged sequence number means we jumped out
* above after doing nothing.
*
* Hence the waiter will either find the commit sequence on the
* committing list or the sequence number will be unchanged and the CIL
* still dirty. In that latter case, the push has not yet started, and
* so the waiter will have to continue trying to check the CIL
* committing list until it is found. In extreme cases of delay, the
* sequence may fully commit between the attempts the wait makes to wait
* on the commit sequence.
*/
list_add(&ctx->committing, &cil->xc_committing);
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* pull all the log vectors off the items in the CIL, and
* remove the items from the CIL. We don't need the CIL lock
* here because it's only needed on the transaction commit
* side which is currently locked out by the flush lock.
*/
lv = NULL;
num_iovecs = 0;
while (!list_empty(&cil->xc_cil)) {
struct xfs_log_item *item;
item = list_first_entry(&cil->xc_cil,
struct xfs_log_item, li_cil);
list_del_init(&item->li_cil);
if (!ctx->lv_chain)
ctx->lv_chain = item->li_lv;
else
lv->lv_next = item->li_lv;
lv = item->li_lv;
item->li_lv = NULL;
num_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs;
}
/*
* initialise the new context and attach it to the CIL. Then attach
* the current context to the CIL committing lsit so it can be found
* during log forces to extract the commit lsn of the sequence that
* needs to be forced.
*/
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_ctx->committing);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_ctx->busy_extents);
new_ctx->sequence = ctx->sequence + 1;
new_ctx->cil = cil;
cil->xc_ctx = new_ctx;
/*
* The switch is now done, so we can drop the context lock and move out
* of a shared context. We can't just go straight to the commit record,
* though - we need to synchronise with previous and future commits so
* that the commit records are correctly ordered in the log to ensure
* that we process items during log IO completion in the correct order.
*
* For example, if we get an EFI in one checkpoint and the EFD in the
* next (e.g. due to log forces), we do not want the checkpoint with
* the EFD to be committed before the checkpoint with the EFI. Hence
* we must strictly order the commit records of the checkpoints so
* that: a) the checkpoint callbacks are attached to the iclogs in the
* correct order; and b) the checkpoints are replayed in correct order
* in log recovery.
*
* Hence we need to add this context to the committing context list so
* that higher sequences will wait for us to write out a commit record
* before they do.
*
* xfs_log_force_lsn requires us to mirror the new sequence into the cil
* structure atomically with the addition of this sequence to the
* committing list. This also ensures that we can do unlocked checks
* against the current sequence in log forces without risking
* deferencing a freed context pointer.
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
*/
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
cil->xc_current_sequence = new_ctx->sequence;
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
up_write(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
/*
* Build a checkpoint transaction header and write it to the log to
* begin the transaction. We need to account for the space used by the
* transaction header here as it is not accounted for in xlog_write().
*
* The LSN we need to pass to the log items on transaction commit is
* the LSN reported by the first log vector write. If we use the commit
* record lsn then we can move the tail beyond the grant write head.
*/
tic = ctx->ticket;
thdr.th_magic = XFS_TRANS_HEADER_MAGIC;
thdr.th_type = XFS_TRANS_CHECKPOINT;
thdr.th_tid = tic->t_tid;
thdr.th_num_items = num_iovecs;
lhdr.i_addr = &thdr;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
lhdr.i_len = sizeof(xfs_trans_header_t);
lhdr.i_type = XLOG_REG_TYPE_TRANSHDR;
tic->t_curr_res -= lhdr.i_len + sizeof(xlog_op_header_t);
lvhdr.lv_niovecs = 1;
lvhdr.lv_iovecp = &lhdr;
lvhdr.lv_next = ctx->lv_chain;
error = xlog_write(log, &lvhdr, tic, &ctx->start_lsn, NULL, 0);
if (error)
goto out_abort_free_ticket;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* now that we've written the checkpoint into the log, strictly
* order the commit records so replay will get them in the right order.
*/
restart:
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
list_for_each_entry(new_ctx, &cil->xc_committing, committing) {
/*
* Avoid getting stuck in this loop because we were woken by the
* shutdown, but then went back to sleep once already in the
* shutdown state.
*/
if (XLOG_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(log)) {
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
goto out_abort_free_ticket;
}
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Higher sequences will wait for this one so skip them.
* Don't wait for our own sequence, either.
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
*/
if (new_ctx->sequence >= ctx->sequence)
continue;
if (!new_ctx->commit_lsn) {
/*
* It is still being pushed! Wait for the push to
* complete, then start again from the beginning.
*/
xlog_wait(&cil->xc_commit_wait, &cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
goto restart;
}
}
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/* xfs_log_done always frees the ticket on error. */
commit_lsn = xfs_log_done(log->l_mp, tic, &commit_iclog, false);
if (commit_lsn == -1)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
goto out_abort;
/* attach all the transactions w/ busy extents to iclog */
ctx->log_cb.cb_func = xlog_cil_committed;
ctx->log_cb.cb_arg = ctx;
error = xfs_log_notify(log->l_mp, commit_iclog, &ctx->log_cb);
if (error)
goto out_abort;
/*
* now the checkpoint commit is complete and we've attached the
* callbacks to the iclog we can assign the commit LSN to the context
* and wake up anyone who is waiting for the commit to complete.
*/
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
ctx->commit_lsn = commit_lsn;
wake_up_all(&cil->xc_commit_wait);
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/* release the hounds! */
return xfs_log_release_iclog(log->l_mp, commit_iclog);
out_skip:
up_write(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
xfs_log_ticket_put(new_ctx->ticket);
kmem_free(new_ctx);
return 0;
out_abort_free_ticket:
xfs_log_ticket_put(tic);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
out_abort:
xlog_cil_committed(ctx, XFS_LI_ABORTED);
return -EIO;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
}
static void
xlog_cil_push_work(
struct work_struct *work)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = container_of(work, struct xfs_cil,
xc_push_work);
xlog_cil_push(cil->xc_log);
}
/*
* We need to push CIL every so often so we don't cache more than we can fit in
* the log. The limit really is that a checkpoint can't be more than half the
* log (the current checkpoint is not allowed to overwrite the previous
* checkpoint), but commit latency and memory usage limit this to a smaller
* size.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_push_background(
struct xlog *log)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
/*
* The cil won't be empty because we are called while holding the
* context lock so whatever we added to the CIL will still be there
*/
ASSERT(!list_empty(&cil->xc_cil));
/*
* don't do a background push if we haven't used up all the
* space available yet.
*/
if (cil->xc_ctx->space_used < XLOG_CIL_SPACE_LIMIT(log))
return;
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
if (cil->xc_push_seq < cil->xc_current_sequence) {
cil->xc_push_seq = cil->xc_current_sequence;
queue_work(log->l_mp->m_cil_workqueue, &cil->xc_push_work);
}
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
}
/*
* xlog_cil_push_now() is used to trigger an immediate CIL push to the sequence
* number that is passed. When it returns, the work will be queued for
* @push_seq, but it won't be completed. The caller is expected to do any
* waiting for push_seq to complete if it is required.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_push_now(
struct xlog *log,
xfs_lsn_t push_seq)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
if (!cil)
return;
ASSERT(push_seq && push_seq <= cil->xc_current_sequence);
/* start on any pending background push to minimise wait time on it */
flush_work(&cil->xc_push_work);
/*
* If the CIL is empty or we've already pushed the sequence then
* there's no work we need to do.
*/
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
if (list_empty(&cil->xc_cil) || push_seq <= cil->xc_push_seq) {
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
return;
}
cil->xc_push_seq = push_seq;
queue_work(log->l_mp->m_cil_workqueue, &cil->xc_push_work);
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
}
xfs: prevent deadlock trying to cover an active log Recent analysis of a deadlocked XFS filesystem from a kernel crash dump indicated that the filesystem was stuck waiting for log space. The short story of the hang on the RHEL6 kernel is this: - the tail of the log is pinned by an inode - the inode has been pushed by the xfsaild - the inode has been flushed to it's backing buffer and is currently flush locked and hence waiting for backing buffer IO to complete and remove it from the AIL - the backing buffer is marked for write - it is on the delayed write queue - the inode buffer has been modified directly and logged recently due to unlinked inode list modification - the backing buffer is pinned in memory as it is in the active CIL context. - the xfsbufd won't start buffer writeback because it is pinned - xfssyncd won't force the log because it sees the log as needing to be covered and hence wants to issue a dummy transaction to move the log covering state machine along. Hence there is no trigger to force the CIL to the log and hence unpin the inode buffer and therefore complete the inode IO, remove it from the AIL and hence move the tail of the log along, allowing transactions to start again. Mainline kernels also have the same deadlock, though the signature is slightly different - the inode buffer never reaches the delayed write lists because xfs_buf_item_push() sees that it is pinned and hence never adds it to the delayed write list that the xfsaild flushes. There are two possible solutions here. The first is to simply force the log before trying to cover the log and so ensure that the CIL is emptied before we try to reserve space for the dummy transaction in the xfs_log_worker(). While this might work most of the time, it is still racy and is no guarantee that we don't get stuck in xfs_trans_reserve waiting for log space to come free. Hence it's not the best way to solve the problem. The second solution is to modify xfs_log_need_covered() to be aware of the CIL. We only should be attempting to cover the log if there is no current activity in the log - covering the log is the process of ensuring that the head and tail in the log on disk are identical (i.e. the log is clean and at idle). Hence, by definition, if there are items in the CIL then the log is not at idle and so we don't need to attempt to cover it. When we don't need to cover the log because it is active or idle, we issue a log force from xfs_log_worker() - if the log is idle, then this does nothing. However, if the log is active due to there being items in the CIL, it will force the items in the CIL to the log and unpin them. In the case of the above deadlock scenario, instead of xfs_log_worker() getting stuck in xfs_trans_reserve() attempting to cover the log, it will instead force the log, thereby unpinning the inode buffer, allowing IO to be issued and complete and hence removing the inode that was pinning the tail of the log from the AIL. At that point, everything will start moving along again. i.e. the xfs_log_worker turns back into a watchdog that can alleviate deadlocks based around pinned items that prevent the tail of the log from being moved... Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-10-14 22:17:49 +00:00
bool
xlog_cil_empty(
struct xlog *log)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
bool empty = false;
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
if (list_empty(&cil->xc_cil))
empty = true;
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
return empty;
}
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
/*
* Commit a transaction with the given vector to the Committed Item List.
*
* To do this, we need to format the item, pin it in memory if required and
* account for the space used by the transaction. Once we have done that we
* need to release the unused reservation for the transaction, attach the
* transaction to the checkpoint context so we carry the busy extents through
* to checkpoint completion, and then unlock all the items in the transaction.
*
* Called with the context lock already held in read mode to lock out
* background commit, returns without it held once background commits are
* allowed again.
*/
void
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xfs_log_commit_cil(
struct xfs_mount *mp,
struct xfs_trans *tp,
xfs_lsn_t *commit_lsn,
bool regrant)
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
{
struct xlog *log = mp->m_log;
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xfs: allocate log vector buffers outside CIL context lock One of the problems we currently have with delayed logging is that under serious memory pressure we can deadlock memory reclaim. THis occurs when memory reclaim (such as run by kswapd) is reclaiming XFS inodes and issues a log force to unpin inodes that are dirty in the CIL. The CIL is pushed, but this will only occur once it gets the CIL context lock to ensure that all committing transactions are complete and no new transactions start being committed to the CIL while the push switches to a new context. The deadlock occurs when the CIL context lock is held by a committing process that is doing memory allocation for log vector buffers, and that allocation is then blocked on memory reclaim making progress. Memory reclaim, however, is blocked waiting for a log force to make progress, and so we effectively deadlock at this point. To solve this problem, we have to move the CIL log vector buffer allocation outside of the context lock so that memory reclaim can always make progress when it needs to force the log. The problem with doing this is that a CIL push can take place while we are determining if we need to allocate a new log vector buffer for an item and hence the current log vector may go away without warning. That means we canot rely on the existing log vector being present when we finally grab the context lock and so we must have a replacement buffer ready to go at all times. To ensure this, introduce a "shadow log vector" buffer that is always guaranteed to be present when we gain the CIL context lock and format the item. This shadow buffer may or may not be used during the formatting, but if the log item does not have an existing log vector buffer or that buffer is too small for the new modifications, we swap it for the new shadow buffer and format the modifications into that new log vector buffer. The result of this is that for any object we modify more than once in a given CIL checkpoint, we double the memory required to track dirty regions in the log. For single modifications then we consume the shadow log vectorwe allocate on commit, and that gets consumed by the checkpoint. However, if we make multiple modifications, then the second transaction commit will allocate a shadow log vector and hence we will end up with double the memory usage as only one of the log vectors is consumed by the CIL checkpoint. The remaining shadow vector will be freed when th elog item is freed. This can probably be optimised in future - access to the shadow log vector is serialised by the object lock (as opposited to the active log vector, which is controlled by the CIL context lock) and so we can probably free shadow log vector from some objects when the log item is marked clean on removal from the AIL. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2016-07-21 23:52:35 +00:00
/*
* Do all necessary memory allocation before we lock the CIL.
* This ensures the allocation does not deadlock with a CIL
* push in memory reclaim (e.g. from kswapd).
*/
xlog_cil_alloc_shadow_bufs(log, tp);
/* lock out background commit */
down_read(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
xlog_cil_insert_items(log, tp);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
/* check we didn't blow the reservation */
if (tp->t_ticket->t_curr_res < 0)
xlog_print_tic_res(mp, tp->t_ticket);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
tp->t_commit_lsn = cil->xc_ctx->sequence;
if (commit_lsn)
*commit_lsn = tp->t_commit_lsn;
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xfs_log_done(mp, tp->t_ticket, NULL, regrant);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(tp);
/*
* Once all the items of the transaction have been copied to the CIL,
* the items can be unlocked and freed.
*
* This needs to be done before we drop the CIL context lock because we
* have to update state in the log items and unlock them before they go
* to disk. If we don't, then the CIL checkpoint can race with us and
* we can run checkpoint completion before we've updated and unlocked
* the log items. This affects (at least) processing of stale buffers,
* inodes and EFIs.
*/
xfs_trans_free_items(tp, tp->t_commit_lsn, false);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xlog_cil_push_background(log);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
up_read(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
}
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* Conditionally push the CIL based on the sequence passed in.
*
* We only need to push if we haven't already pushed the sequence
* number given. Hence the only time we will trigger a push here is
* if the push sequence is the same as the current context.
*
* We return the current commit lsn to allow the callers to determine if a
* iclog flush is necessary following this call.
*/
xfs_lsn_t
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xlog_cil_force_lsn(
struct xlog *log,
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
xfs_lsn_t sequence)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
{
struct xfs_cil *cil = log->l_cilp;
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx;
xfs_lsn_t commit_lsn = NULLCOMMITLSN;
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
ASSERT(sequence <= cil->xc_current_sequence);
/*
* check to see if we need to force out the current context.
* xlog_cil_push() handles racing pushes for the same sequence,
* so no need to deal with it here.
*/
restart:
xlog_cil_push_now(log, sequence);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
/*
* See if we can find a previous sequence still committing.
* We need to wait for all previous sequence commits to complete
* before allowing the force of push_seq to go ahead. Hence block
* on commits for those as well.
*/
spin_lock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
list_for_each_entry(ctx, &cil->xc_committing, committing) {
/*
* Avoid getting stuck in this loop because we were woken by the
* shutdown, but then went back to sleep once already in the
* shutdown state.
*/
if (XLOG_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(log))
goto out_shutdown;
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
if (ctx->sequence > sequence)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
continue;
if (!ctx->commit_lsn) {
/*
* It is still being pushed! Wait for the push to
* complete, then start again from the beginning.
*/
xlog_wait(&cil->xc_commit_wait, &cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
goto restart;
}
xfs: Reduce log force overhead for delayed logging Delayed logging adds some serialisation to the log force process to ensure that it does not deference a bad commit context structure when determining if a CIL push is necessary or not. It does this by grabing the CIL context lock exclusively, then dropping it before pushing the CIL if necessary. This causes serialisation of all log forces and pushes regardless of whether a force is necessary or not. As a result fsync heavy workloads (like dbench) can be significantly slower with delayed logging than without. To avoid this penalty, copy the current sequence from the context to the CIL structure when they are swapped. This allows us to do unlocked checks on the current sequence without having to worry about dereferencing context structures that may have already been freed. Hence we can remove the CIL context locking in the forcing code and only call into the push code if the current context matches the sequence we need to force. By passing the sequence into the push code, we can check the sequence again once we have the CIL lock held exclusive and abort if the sequence has already been pushed. This avoids a lock round-trip and unnecessary CIL pushes when we have racing push calls. The result is that the regression in dbench performance goes away - this change improves dbench performance on a ramdisk from ~2100MB/s to ~2500MB/s. This compares favourably to not using delayed logging which retuns ~2500MB/s for the same workload. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2010-08-24 01:40:03 +00:00
if (ctx->sequence != sequence)
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
continue;
/* found it! */
commit_lsn = ctx->commit_lsn;
}
/*
* The call to xlog_cil_push_now() executes the push in the background.
* Hence by the time we have got here it our sequence may not have been
* pushed yet. This is true if the current sequence still matches the
* push sequence after the above wait loop and the CIL still contains
xfs: xlog_cil_force_lsn doesn't always wait correctly When running a tight mount/unmount loop on an older kernel, RedHat QE found that unmount would occasionally hang in xfs_buf_unpin_wait() on the superblock buffer. Tracing and other debug work by Eric Sandeen indicated that it was hanging on the writing of the superblock during unmount immediately after logging the superblock counters in a synchronous transaction. Further debug indicated that the synchronous transaction was not waiting for completion correctly, and we narrowed it down to xlog_cil_force_lsn() returning NULLCOMMITLSN and hence not pushing the transaction in the iclog buffer to disk correctly. While this unmount superblock write code is now very different in mainline kernels, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() code is identical, and it was bisected to the backport of commit f876e44 ("xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue"). This commit made the CIL push asynchronous for log forces and hence exposed a race condition that couldn't occur on a synchronous push. Essentially, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() relied implicitly on the fact that the sequence push would be complete by the time xlog_cil_push_now() returned, resulting in the context being pushed being in the committing list. When it was made asynchronous, it was recognised that there was a race condition in detecting whether an asynchronous push has started or not and code was added to handle it. Unfortunately, the fix was not quite right and left a race condition where it it would detect an empty CIL while a push was in progress before the context had been added to the committing list. This was incorrectly seen as a "nothing to do" condition and so would tell xfs_log_force_lsn() that there is nothing to wait for, and hence it would push the iclogbufs in memory. The fix is simple, but explaining the logic and the race condition is a lot more complex. The fix is to add the context to the committing list before we start emptying the CIL. This allows us to detect the difference between an empty "do nothing" push and a push that has not started by adding a discrete "emptying the CIL" state to avoid the transient, incorrect "empty" condition that the (unchanged) waiting code was seeing. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-09-23 05:57:59 +00:00
* dirty objects. This is guaranteed by the push code first adding the
* context to the committing list before emptying the CIL.
*
xfs: xlog_cil_force_lsn doesn't always wait correctly When running a tight mount/unmount loop on an older kernel, RedHat QE found that unmount would occasionally hang in xfs_buf_unpin_wait() on the superblock buffer. Tracing and other debug work by Eric Sandeen indicated that it was hanging on the writing of the superblock during unmount immediately after logging the superblock counters in a synchronous transaction. Further debug indicated that the synchronous transaction was not waiting for completion correctly, and we narrowed it down to xlog_cil_force_lsn() returning NULLCOMMITLSN and hence not pushing the transaction in the iclog buffer to disk correctly. While this unmount superblock write code is now very different in mainline kernels, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() code is identical, and it was bisected to the backport of commit f876e44 ("xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue"). This commit made the CIL push asynchronous for log forces and hence exposed a race condition that couldn't occur on a synchronous push. Essentially, the xlog_cil_force_lsn() relied implicitly on the fact that the sequence push would be complete by the time xlog_cil_push_now() returned, resulting in the context being pushed being in the committing list. When it was made asynchronous, it was recognised that there was a race condition in detecting whether an asynchronous push has started or not and code was added to handle it. Unfortunately, the fix was not quite right and left a race condition where it it would detect an empty CIL while a push was in progress before the context had been added to the committing list. This was incorrectly seen as a "nothing to do" condition and so would tell xfs_log_force_lsn() that there is nothing to wait for, and hence it would push the iclogbufs in memory. The fix is simple, but explaining the logic and the race condition is a lot more complex. The fix is to add the context to the committing list before we start emptying the CIL. This allows us to detect the difference between an empty "do nothing" push and a push that has not started by adding a discrete "emptying the CIL" state to avoid the transient, incorrect "empty" condition that the (unchanged) waiting code was seeing. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-09-23 05:57:59 +00:00
* Hence if we don't find the context in the committing list and the
* current sequence number is unchanged then the CIL contents are
* significant. If the CIL is empty, if means there was nothing to push
* and that means there is nothing to wait for. If the CIL is not empty,
* it means we haven't yet started the push, because if it had started
* we would have found the context on the committing list.
*/
if (sequence == cil->xc_current_sequence &&
!list_empty(&cil->xc_cil)) {
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
goto restart;
}
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
return commit_lsn;
/*
* We detected a shutdown in progress. We need to trigger the log force
* to pass through it's iclog state machine error handling, even though
* we are already in a shutdown state. Hence we can't return
* NULLCOMMITLSN here as that has special meaning to log forces (i.e.
* LSN is already stable), so we return a zero LSN instead.
*/
out_shutdown:
spin_unlock(&cil->xc_push_lock);
return 0;
xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code The delayed logging code only changes in-memory structures and as such can be enabled and disabled with a mount option. Add the mount option and emit a warning that this is an experimental feature that should not be used in production yet. We also need infrastructure to track committed items that have not yet been written to the log. This is what the Committed Item List (CIL) is for. The log item also needs to be extended to track the current log vector, the associated memory buffer and it's location in the Commit Item List. Extend the log item and log vector structures to enable this tracking. To maintain the current log format for transactions with delayed logging, we need to introduce a checkpoint transaction and a context for tracking each checkpoint from initiation to transaction completion. This includes adding a log ticket for tracking space log required/used by the context checkpoint. To track all the changes we need an io vector array per log item, rather than a single array for the entire transaction. Using the new log vector structure for this requires two passes - the first to allocate the log vector structures and chain them together, and the second to fill them out. This log vector chain can then be passed to the CIL for formatting, pinning and insertion into the CIL. Formatting of the log vector chain is relatively simple - it's just a loop over the iovecs on each log vector, but it is made slightly more complex because we re-write the iovec after the copy to point back at the memory buffer we just copied into. This code also needs to pin log items. If the log item is not already tracked in this checkpoint context, then it needs to be pinned. Otherwise it is already pinned and we don't need to pin it again. The only other complexity is calculating the amount of new log space the formatting has consumed. This needs to be accounted to the transaction in progress, and the accounting is made more complex becase we need also to steal space from it for log metadata in the checkpoint transaction. Calculate all this at insert time and update all the tickets, counters, etc correctly. Once we've formatted all the log items in the transaction, attach the busy extents to the checkpoint context so the busy extents live until checkpoint completion and can be processed at that point in time. Transactions can then be freed at this point in time. Now we need to issue checkpoints - we are tracking the amount of log space used by the items in the CIL, so we can trigger background checkpoints when the space usage gets to a certain threshold. Otherwise, checkpoints need ot be triggered when a log synchronisation point is reached - a log force event. Because the log write code already handles chained log vectors, writing the transaction is trivial, too. Construct a transaction header, add it to the head of the chain and write it into the log, then issue a commit record write. Then we can release the checkpoint log ticket and attach the context to the log buffer so it can be called during Io completion to complete the checkpoint. We also need to allow for synchronising multiple in-flight checkpoints. This is needed for two things - the first is to ensure that checkpoint commit records appear in the log in the correct sequence order (so they are replayed in the correct order). The second is so that xfs_log_force_lsn() operates correctly and only flushes and/or waits for the specific sequence it was provided with. To do this we need a wait variable and a list tracking the checkpoint commits in progress. We can walk this list and wait for the checkpoints to change state or complete easily, an this provides the necessary synchronisation for correct operation in both cases. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-21 04:37:18 +00:00
}
xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed With delayed logging, we can get inode allocation buffers in the same transaction inode unlink buffers. We don't currently mark inode allocation buffers in the log, so inode unlink buffers take precedence over allocation buffers. The result is that when they are combined into the same checkpoint, only the unlinked inode chain fields are replayed, resulting in uninitialised inode buffers being detected when the next inode modification is replayed. To fix this, we need to ensure that we do not set the inode buffer flag in the buffer log item format flags if the inode allocation has not already hit the log. To avoid requiring a change to log recovery, we really need to make this a modification that relies only on in-memory sate. We can do this by checking during buffer log formatting (while the CIL cannot be flushed) if we are still in the same sequence when we commit the unlink transaction as the inode allocation transaction. If we are, then we do not add the inode buffer flag to the buffer log format item flags. This means the entire buffer will be replayed, not just the unlinked fields. We do this while CIL flusheѕ are locked out to ensure that we don't race with the sequence numbers changing and hence fail to put the inode buffer flag in the buffer format flags when we really need to. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-05-20 13:19:42 +00:00
/*
* Check if the current log item was first committed in this sequence.
* We can't rely on just the log item being in the CIL, we have to check
* the recorded commit sequence number.
*
* Note: for this to be used in a non-racy manner, it has to be called with
* CIL flushing locked out. As a result, it should only be used during the
* transaction commit process when deciding what to format into the item.
*/
bool
xfs_log_item_in_current_chkpt(
struct xfs_log_item *lip)
{
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx;
if (list_empty(&lip->li_cil))
return false;
ctx = lip->li_mountp->m_log->l_cilp->xc_ctx;
/*
* li_seq is written on the first commit of a log item to record the
* first checkpoint it is written to. Hence if it is different to the
* current sequence, we're in a new checkpoint.
*/
if (XFS_LSN_CMP(lip->li_seq, ctx->sequence) != 0)
return false;
return true;
}
/*
* Perform initial CIL structure initialisation.
*/
int
xlog_cil_init(
struct xlog *log)
{
struct xfs_cil *cil;
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx;
cil = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*cil), KM_SLEEP|KM_MAYFAIL);
if (!cil)
return -ENOMEM;
ctx = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*ctx), KM_SLEEP|KM_MAYFAIL);
if (!ctx) {
kmem_free(cil);
return -ENOMEM;
}
INIT_WORK(&cil->xc_push_work, xlog_cil_push_work);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cil->xc_cil);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cil->xc_committing);
spin_lock_init(&cil->xc_cil_lock);
spin_lock_init(&cil->xc_push_lock);
init_rwsem(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
init_waitqueue_head(&cil->xc_commit_wait);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->committing);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->busy_extents);
ctx->sequence = 1;
ctx->cil = cil;
cil->xc_ctx = ctx;
cil->xc_current_sequence = ctx->sequence;
cil->xc_log = log;
log->l_cilp = cil;
return 0;
}
void
xlog_cil_destroy(
struct xlog *log)
{
if (log->l_cilp->xc_ctx) {
if (log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->ticket)
xfs_log_ticket_put(log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->ticket);
kmem_free(log->l_cilp->xc_ctx);
}
ASSERT(list_empty(&log->l_cilp->xc_cil));
kmem_free(log->l_cilp);
}