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Message-ID: <cb310814-4ad9-d3f3-674d-8746fae35fe0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:52:21 +0800
From: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@...il.com>
To: Gang He <ghe@...e.com>, mfasheh@...sity.com, jlbec@...lplan.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH v2] ocfs2: try a blocking lock before return
AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
On 17/12/28 15:48, Gang He wrote:
> If we can't get inode lock immediately in the function
> ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page() when reading a page, we should not
> return directly here, since this will lead to a softlockup problem
> when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set.
> The method is to get a blocking lock and immediately unlock before
> returning, this can avoid CPU resource waste due to lots of retries,
> and benefits fairness in getting lock among multiple nodes, increase
> efficiency in case modifying the same file frequently from multiple
> nodes.
> The softlockup crash (when set /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_panic to 1)
> looks like,
> Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
> CPU: 0 PID: 885 Comm: multi_mmap Tainted: G L 4.12.14-6.1-default #1
> Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> Call Trace:
> <IRQ>
> dump_stack+0x5c/0x82
> panic+0xd5/0x21e
> watchdog_timer_fn+0x208/0x210
> ? watchdog_park_threads+0x70/0x70
> __hrtimer_run_queues+0xcc/0x200
> hrtimer_interrupt+0xa6/0x1f0
> smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x50
> apic_timer_interrupt+0x96/0xa0
> </IRQ>
> RIP: 0010:unlock_page+0x17/0x30
> RSP: 0000:ffffaf154080bc88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffff10
> RAX: dead000000000100 RBX: fffff21e009f5300 RCX: 0000000000000004
> RDX: dead0000000000ff RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: fffff21e009f5300
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffaf154080bb00
> R10: ffffaf154080bc30 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff993749a39518
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: fffff21e009f5300 R15: fffff21e009f5300
> ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page+0x25/0x30 [ocfs2]
> ocfs2_readpage+0x41/0x2d0 [ocfs2]
> ? pagecache_get_page+0x30/0x200
> filemap_fault+0x12b/0x5c0
> ? recalc_sigpending+0x17/0x50
> ? __set_task_blocked+0x28/0x70
> ? __set_current_blocked+0x3d/0x60
> ocfs2_fault+0x29/0xb0 [ocfs2]
> __do_fault+0x1a/0xa0
> __handle_mm_fault+0xbe8/0x1090
> handle_mm_fault+0xaa/0x1f0
> __do_page_fault+0x235/0x4b0
> trace_do_page_fault+0x3c/0x110
> async_page_fault+0x28/0x30
> RIP: 0033:0x7fa75ded638e
> RSP: 002b:00007ffd6657db18 EFLAGS: 00010287
> RAX: 000055c7662fb700 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 000055c7662fb700
> RDX: 0000000000001770 RSI: 00007fa75e909000 RDI: 000055c7662fb700
> RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 000000000000000e R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000483 R11: 00007fa75ded61b0 R12: 00007fa75e90a770
> R13: 000000000000000e R14: 0000000000001770 R15: 0000000000000000
>
> About performance improvement, we can see the testing time is reduced,
> and CPU utilization decreases, the detailed data is as follows.
> I ran multi_mmap test case in ocfs2-test package in a three nodes cluster.
> Before apply this patch,
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2754 ocfs2te+ 20 0 170248 6980 4856 D 80.73 0.341 0:18.71 multi_mmap
> 1505 root rt 0 222236 123060 97224 S 2.658 6.015 0:01.44 corosync
> 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.329 0.000 0:00.19 kworker/u8:0
> 95 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.329 0.000 0:00.25 kworker/u8:1
> 2728 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.997 0.000 0:00.24 jbd2/sda1-33
> 2721 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.664 0.000 0:00.07 ocfs2dc-3C8CFD4
> 2750 ocfs2te+ 20 0 142976 4652 3532 S 0.664 0.227 0:00.28 mpirun
>
> ocfs2test@...node2:~>multiple_run.sh -i ens3 -k ~/linux-4.4.21-69.tar.gz -o
> ~/ocfs2mullog -C hacluster -s pcmk -n tb-node2,tb-node1,tb-node3 -d
> /dev/sda1 -b 4096 -c 32768 -t multi_mmap /mnt/shared
> Tests with "-b 4096 -C 32768"
> Thu Dec 28 14:44:52 CST 2017
> multi_mmap..................................................Passed.
> Runtime 783 seconds.
>
> After apply this patch,
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 2508 ocfs2te+ 20 0 170248 6804 4680 R 54.00 0.333 0:55.37 multi_mmap
> 155 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2.667 0.000 0:01.20 kworker/u8:3
> 95 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 2.000 0.000 0:01.58 kworker/u8:1
> 2504 ocfs2te+ 20 0 142976 4604 3480 R 1.667 0.225 0:01.65 mpirun
> 5 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.000 0.000 0:01.36 kworker/u8:0
> 2482 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 1.000 0.000 0:00.86 jbd2/sda1-33
> 299 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.333 0.000 0:00.13 kworker/2:1H
> 335 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.333 0.000 0:00.17 kworker/1:1H
> 535 root 20 0 12140 7268 1456 S 0.333 0.355 0:00.34 haveged
> 1282 root rt 0 222284 123108 97224 S 0.333 6.017 0:01.33 corosync
>
> ocfs2test@...node2:~>multiple_run.sh -i ens3 -k ~/linux-4.4.21-69.tar.gz -o
> ~/ocfs2mullog -C hacluster -s pcmk -n tb-node2,tb-node1,tb-node3 -d
> /dev/sda1 -b 4096 -c 32768 -t multi_mmap /mnt/shared
> Tests with "-b 4096 -C 32768"
> Thu Dec 28 15:04:12 CST 2017
> multi_mmap..................................................Passed.
> Runtime 487 seconds.
>
> Fixes: 1cce4df04f37 ("ocfs2: do not lock/unlock() inode DLM lock")
> Signed-off-by: Gang He <ghe@...e.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@...il.com>
> ---
> fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> index 4689940..5193218 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> @@ -2486,6 +2486,15 @@ int ocfs2_inode_lock_with_page(struct inode *inode,
> ret = ocfs2_inode_lock_full(inode, ret_bh, ex, OCFS2_LOCK_NONBLOCK);
> if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
> unlock_page(page);
> + /*
> + * If we can't get inode lock immediately, we should not return
> + * directly here, since this will lead to a softlockup problem.
> + * The method is to get a blocking lock and immediately unlock
> + * before returning, this can avoid CPU resource waste due to
> + * lots of retries, and benefits fairness in getting lock.
> + */
> + if (ocfs2_inode_lock(inode, ret_bh, ex) == 0)
> + ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, ex);
> ret = AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE;
> }
>
>
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