From 2def2845cc33390e39b51440508043e4981e10ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:10:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] xfs: don't allow log IO to be throttled Running metadata intensive workloads, I've been seeing the AIL pushing getting stuck on pinned buffers and triggering log forces. The log force is taking a long time to run because the log IO is getting throttled by wbt_wait() - the block layer writeback throttle. It's being throttled because there is a huge amount of metadata writeback going on which is filling the request queue. IOWs, we have a priority inversion problem here. Mark the log IO bios with REQ_IDLE so they don't get throttled by the block layer writeback throttle. When we are forcing the CIL, we are likely to need to to tens of log IOs, and they are issued as fast as they can be build and IO completed. Hence REQ_IDLE is appropriate - it's an indication that more IO will follow shortly. And because we also set REQ_SYNC, the writeback throttle will now treat log IO the same way it treats direct IO writes - it will not throttle them at all. Hence we solve the priority inversion problem caused by the writeback throttle being unable to distinguish between high priority log IO and background metadata writeback. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Brian Foster Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Allison Collins Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong --- fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c index 7d1355a9cc43..46108ca20d85 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c @@ -1687,7 +1687,15 @@ xlog_write_iclog( iclog->ic_bio.bi_iter.bi_sector = log->l_logBBstart + bno; iclog->ic_bio.bi_end_io = xlog_bio_end_io; iclog->ic_bio.bi_private = iclog; - iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_META | REQ_SYNC | REQ_FUA; + + /* + * We use REQ_SYNC | REQ_IDLE here to tell the block layer the are more + * IOs coming immediately after this one. This prevents the block layer + * writeback throttle from throttling log writes behind background + * metadata writeback and causing priority inversions. + */ + iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_META | REQ_SYNC | + REQ_IDLE | REQ_FUA; if (need_flush) iclog->ic_bio.bi_opf |= REQ_PREFLUSH;