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[3/9] xfs: expose sysfs knob to control inode inactivation delay

Message ID 161671812555.622901.16473251954083643080.stgit@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series xfs: deferred inode inactivation | expand

Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong March 26, 2021, 12:22 a.m. UTC 
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

Allow administrators to control the length that we defer inode
inactivation.  By default we'll set the delay to 2 seconds, as an
arbitrary choice between allowing for some batching of a deltree
operation, and not letting too many inodes pile up in memory.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst |    7 +++++++
 fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c              |    3 +++
 fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c               |    3 ++-
 fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h                |    1 +
 fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c               |    9 +++++++++
 fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h               |    1 +
 6 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
index f9b109bfc6a6..9dd62b155fda 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/xfs.rst
@@ -277,6 +277,13 @@  The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:
 	references and returns timed-out AGs back to the free stream
 	pool.
 
+  fs.xfs.inode_gc_delay
+	(Units: centiseconds   Min: 0  Default: 1  Max: 360000)
+	The amount of time to delay cleanup work that happens after a file is
+	closed by all programs.  This involves clearing speculative
+	preallocations from linked files and freeing unlinked files.  A higher
+	value here increases batching at a risk of background work storms.
+
   fs.xfs.speculative_prealloc_lifetime
 	(Units: seconds   Min: 1  Default: 300  Max: 86400)
 	The interval at which the background scanning for inodes
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c
index f62fa652c2fd..8c359b0b8fd3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_globals.c
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@  xfs_param_t xfs_params = {
 	.rotorstep	= {	1,		1,		255	},
 	.inherit_nodfrg	= {	0,		1,		1	},
 	.fstrm_timer	= {	1,		30*100,		3600*100},
+	.inodegc_timer	= {	0,		1,		3600*100},
+
+	/* Values below here are measured in seconds */
 	.blockgc_timer	= {	1,		300,		3600*24},
 };
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
index 287a1500b9b2..803f1241f867 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
@@ -310,7 +310,8 @@  xfs_inodegc_queue(
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (radix_tree_tagged(&mp->m_perag_tree, XFS_ICI_INODEGC_TAG))
-		queue_delayed_work(mp->m_gc_workqueue, &mp->m_inodegc_work, 0);
+		queue_delayed_work(mp->m_gc_workqueue, &mp->m_inodegc_work,
+				msecs_to_jiffies(xfs_inodegc_centisecs * 10));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h
index 7688663b9773..3d6b0a407d52 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_linux.h
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@  typedef __u32			xfs_nlink_t;
 #define xfs_inherit_nodefrag	xfs_params.inherit_nodfrg.val
 #define xfs_fstrm_centisecs	xfs_params.fstrm_timer.val
 #define xfs_blockgc_secs	xfs_params.blockgc_timer.val
+#define xfs_inodegc_centisecs	xfs_params.inodegc_timer.val
 
 #define current_cpu()		(raw_smp_processor_id())
 #define current_set_flags_nested(sp, f)		\
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
index 546a6cd96729..878f31d3a587 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.c
@@ -176,6 +176,15 @@  static struct ctl_table xfs_table[] = {
 		.extra1		= &xfs_params.fstrm_timer.min,
 		.extra2		= &xfs_params.fstrm_timer.max,
 	},
+	{
+		.procname	= "inode_gc_delay",
+		.data		= &xfs_params.inodegc_timer.val,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(int),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec_minmax,
+		.extra1		= &xfs_params.inodegc_timer.min,
+		.extra2		= &xfs_params.inodegc_timer.max
+	},
 	{
 		.procname	= "speculative_prealloc_lifetime",
 		.data		= &xfs_params.blockgc_timer.val,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h
index 7692e76ead33..a045c33c3d30 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sysctl.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@  typedef struct xfs_param {
 	xfs_sysctl_val_t inherit_nodfrg;/* Inherit the "nodefrag" inode flag. */
 	xfs_sysctl_val_t fstrm_timer;	/* Filestream dir-AG assoc'n timeout. */
 	xfs_sysctl_val_t blockgc_timer;	/* Interval between blockgc scans */
+	xfs_sysctl_val_t inodegc_timer;	/* Inode inactivation scan interval */
 } xfs_param_t;
 
 /*