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[2/2] xfs: retry allocations when locality-based search fails

Message ID 162007769456.836421.14886406791989530317.stgit@magnolia (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Series xfs: realtime allocator fixes | expand

Commit Message

Darrick J. Wong May 3, 2021, 9:34 p.m. UTC
From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

If a realtime allocation fails because we can't find a sufficiently
large free extent satisfying locality rules, relax the locality rules
and try again.  This reduces the occurrence of short writes to realtime
files when the write size is large and the free space is fragmented.

This was originally discovered by running generic/186 with the realtime
reflink patchset and a 128k cow extent size hint, but the same problem
can manifest with a 128k extent size hint, so applies the fix now.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Allison Henderson May 6, 2021, 5:26 a.m. UTC | #1
On 5/3/21 2:34 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> 
> If a realtime allocation fails because we can't find a sufficiently
> large free extent satisfying locality rules, relax the locality rules
> and try again.  This reduces the occurrence of short writes to realtime
> files when the write size is large and the free space is fragmented.
> 
> This was originally discovered by running generic/186 with the realtime
> reflink patchset and a 128k cow extent size hint, but the same problem
> can manifest with a 128k extent size hint, so applies the fix now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Ok, makes sense.
Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com>

> ---
>   fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> index c9381bf4f04b..0936f3a96fe6 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
>   	xfs_extlen_t		minlen = mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize;
>   	xfs_extlen_t		raminlen;
>   	bool			rtlocked = false;
> +	bool			ignore_locality = false;
>   	int			error;
>   
>   	align = xfs_get_extsz_hint(ap->ip);
> @@ -158,7 +159,10 @@ xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
>   	/*
>   	 * Realtime allocation, done through xfs_rtallocate_extent.
>   	 */
> -	do_div(ap->blkno, mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
> +	if (ignore_locality)
> +		ap->blkno = 0;
> +	else
> +		do_div(ap->blkno, mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
>   	rtb = ap->blkno;
>   	ap->length = ralen;
>   	raminlen = max_t(xfs_extlen_t, 1, minlen / mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
> @@ -197,6 +201,15 @@ xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
>   		goto retry;
>   	}
>   
> +	if (!ignore_locality && ap->blkno != 0) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If we can't allocate near a specific rt extent, try again
> +		 * without locality criteria.
> +		 */
> +		ignore_locality = true;
> +		goto retry;
> +	}
> +
>   	ap->blkno = NULLFSBLOCK;
>   	ap->length = 0;
>   	return 0;
>
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diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index c9381bf4f04b..0936f3a96fe6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@  xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
 	xfs_extlen_t		minlen = mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize;
 	xfs_extlen_t		raminlen;
 	bool			rtlocked = false;
+	bool			ignore_locality = false;
 	int			error;
 
 	align = xfs_get_extsz_hint(ap->ip);
@@ -158,7 +159,10 @@  xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
 	/*
 	 * Realtime allocation, done through xfs_rtallocate_extent.
 	 */
-	do_div(ap->blkno, mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
+	if (ignore_locality)
+		ap->blkno = 0;
+	else
+		do_div(ap->blkno, mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
 	rtb = ap->blkno;
 	ap->length = ralen;
 	raminlen = max_t(xfs_extlen_t, 1, minlen / mp->m_sb.sb_rextsize);
@@ -197,6 +201,15 @@  xfs_bmap_rtalloc(
 		goto retry;
 	}
 
+	if (!ignore_locality && ap->blkno != 0) {
+		/*
+		 * If we can't allocate near a specific rt extent, try again
+		 * without locality criteria.
+		 */
+		ignore_locality = true;
+		goto retry;
+	}
+
 	ap->blkno = NULLFSBLOCK;
 	ap->length = 0;
 	return 0;