From e97fedb9ef9868ff24d588be781906cf7c1b59ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 13:40:00 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] sync: serialise per-superblock sync operations When competing sync(2) calls walk the same filesystem, they need to walk the list of inodes on the superblock to find all the inodes that we need to wait for IO completion on. However, when multiple wait_sb_inodes() calls do this at the same time, they contend on the the inode_sb_list_lock and the contention causes system wide slowdowns. In effect, concurrent sync(2) calls can take longer and burn more CPU than if they were serialised. Stop the worst of the contention by adding a per-sb mutex to wrap around wait_sb_inodes() so that we only execute one sync(2) IO completion walk per superblock superblock at a time and hence avoid contention being triggered by concurrent sync(2) calls. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Tested-by: Dave Chinner --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 11 +++++++++++ fs/super.c | 1 + include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index f45bf876579f..3c974442bdf0 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -2114,6 +2114,15 @@ out_unlock_inode: } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mark_inode_dirty); +/* + * The @s_sync_lock is used to serialise concurrent sync operations + * to avoid lock contention problems with concurrent wait_sb_inodes() calls. + * Concurrent callers will block on the s_sync_lock rather than doing contending + * walks. The queueing maintains sync(2) required behaviour as all the IO that + * has been issued up to the time this function is enter is guaranteed to be + * completed by the time we have gained the lock and waited for all IO that is + * in progress regardless of the order callers are granted the lock. + */ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) { struct inode *inode, *old_inode = NULL; @@ -2124,6 +2133,7 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) */ WARN_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount)); + mutex_lock(&sb->s_sync_lock); spin_lock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); /* @@ -2165,6 +2175,7 @@ static void wait_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb) } spin_unlock(&sb->s_inode_list_lock); iput(old_inode); + mutex_unlock(&sb->s_sync_lock); } static void __writeback_inodes_sb_nr(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long nr, diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index c808183554a2..fd427ec0b372 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ static struct super_block *alloc_super(struct file_system_type *type, int flags) s->s_flags = flags; INIT_HLIST_NODE(&s->s_instances); INIT_HLIST_BL_HEAD(&s->s_anon); + mutex_init(&s->s_sync_lock); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes); spin_lock_init(&s->s_inode_list_lock); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 09bbd38485f9..82dfc5519b4b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1375,6 +1375,8 @@ struct super_block { struct list_lru s_inode_lru ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; struct rcu_head rcu; + struct mutex s_sync_lock; /* sync serialisation lock */ + /* * Indicates how deep in a filesystem stack this SB is */ -- 2.20.1