Background writeback works by scanning the btree for dirty data and
adding those keys into a fixed size buffer, then for each dirty key in
the keybuf writing it to the backing device.
When read_dirty() finishes and it's time to scan for more dirty data, we
need to wait for the outstanding writeback IO to finish - they still
take up slots in the keybuf (so that foreground writes can check for
them to avoid races) - without that wait, we'll continually rescan when
we'll be able to add at most a key or two to the keybuf, and that takes
locks that starves foreground IO. Doh.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The alloc kthread should've been using try_to_freeze() - and also there
was the potential for the alloc kthread to get woken up after it had
shut down, which would have been bad.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
If we stopped a bcache device when we were already detaching (or
something like that), bcache_device_unlink() would try to remove a
symlink from sysfs that was already gone because the bcache dev kobject
had already been removed from sysfs.
So keep track of whether we've removed stuff from sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # >= v3.10
Now that we're tracking dirty data per stripe, we can add two
optimizations for raid5/6:
* If a stripe is already dirty, force writes to that stripe to
writeback mode - to help build up full stripes of dirty data
* When flushing dirty data, preferentially write out full stripes first
if there are any.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
To make background writeback aware of raid5/6 stripes, we first need to
track the amount of dirty data within each stripe - we do this by
breaking up the existing sectors_dirty into per stripe atomic_ts
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Previously, dirty_data wouldn't get initialized until the first garbage
collection... which was a bit of a problem for background writeback (as
the PD controller keys off of it) and also confusing for users.
This is also prep work for making background writeback aware of raid5/6
stripes.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
The old lazy sorting code was kind of hacky - rewrite in a way that
mathematically makes more sense; the idea is that the size of the sets
of keys in a btree node should increase by a more or less fixed ratio
from smallest to biggest.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
The tracepoints were reworked to be more sensible, and fixed a null
pointer deref in one of the tracepoints.
Converted some of the pr_debug()s to tracepoints - this is partly a
performance optimization; it used to be that with DEBUG or
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG pr_debug() was an empty macro; but at some point it
was changed to an empty inline function.
Some of the pr_debug() statements had rather expensive function calls as
part of the arguments, so this code was getting run unnecessarily even
on non debug kernels - in some fast paths, too.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
The most significant change is that btree reads are now done
synchronously, instead of asynchronously and doing the post read stuff
from a workqueue.
This was originally done because we can't block on IO under
generic_make_request(). But - we already have a mechanism to punt cache
lookups to workqueue if needed, so if we just use that we don't have to
deal with the complexity of doing things asynchronously.
The main benefit is this makes the locking situation saner; we can hold
our write lock on the btree node until we're finished reading it, and we
don't need that btree_node_read_done() flag anymore.
Also, for writes, btree_write() was broken out into btree_node_write()
and btree_leaf_dirty() - the old code with the boolean argument was dumb
and confusing.
The prio_blocked mechanism was improved a bit too, now the only counter
is in struct btree_write, we don't mess with transfering a count from
struct btree anymore.
This required changing garbage collection to block prios at the start
and unblock when it finishes, which is cleaner than what it was doing
anyways (the old code had mostly the same effect, but was doing it in a
convoluted way)
And the btree iter btree_node_read_done() uses was converted to a real
mempool.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Add a new superblock version, and consolidate related defines.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel de Perthuis <g2p.code+bcache@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Took out some nested functions, and fixed some more checkpatch
complaints.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Does writethrough and writeback caching, handles unclean shutdown, and
has a bunch of other nifty features motivated by real world usage.
See the wiki at http://bcache.evilpiepirate.org for more.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
