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Message-ID: <25279079-2600-b0d3-5279-caaf6f664d71@huaweicloud.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 May 2023 11:18:41 +0800
From:   Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
To:     Xiao Ni <xni@...hat.com>, Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com>
Cc:     song@...nel.org, akpm@...l.org, neilb@...e.de,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        yi.zhang@...wei.com, yangerkun@...wei.com,
        "yukuai (C)" <yukuai3@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v2 7/7] md/raid1-10: limit the number of plugged bio

Hi,

在 2023/05/29 11:10, Xiao Ni 写道:
> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 10:20 AM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 在 2023/05/29 10:08, Xiao Ni 写道:
>>> Hi Kuai
>>>
>>> There is a limitation of the memory in your test. But for most
>>> situations, customers should not set this. Can this change introduce a
>>> performance regression against other situations?
>>
>> Noted that this limitation is just to triggered writeback as soon as
>> possible in the test, and it's 100% sure real situations can trigger
>> dirty pages write back asynchronously and continue to produce new dirty
>> pages.
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm confused here. If we want to trigger write back quickly, it needs
> to set these two values with a smaller number, rather than 0 and 60.
> Right?

60 is not required, I'll remove this setting.

0 just means write back if there are any dirty pages.
>>
>> If a lot of bio is not plugged, then it's the same as before; if a lot
>> of bio is plugged, noted that before this patchset, these bio will spent
>> quite a long time in plug, and hence I think performance should be
>> better.
> 
> Hmm, it depends on if it's sequential or not? If it's a big io
> request, can it miss the merge opportunity?

The bio will still be merged to underlying disks' rq(if it's rq based),
underlying disk won't flush plug untill the number of request exceed
threshold.

Thanks,
Kuai
> 
> Regards
> Xiao
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kuai
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> Xiao
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 4:24 PM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@...weicloud.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>>>
>>>> bio can be added to plug infinitely, and following writeback test can
>>>> trigger huge amount of plugged bio:
>>>>
>>>> Test script:
>>>> modprobe brd rd_nr=4 rd_size=10485760
>>>> mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l10 -n4 /dev/ram[0123] --assume-clean
>>>> echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
>>>> echo 60 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
>>>> fio -filename=/dev/md0 -ioengine=libaio -rw=write -bs=4k -numjobs=1 -iodepth=128 -name=test
>>>>
>>>> Test result:
>>>> Monitor /sys/block/md0/inflight will found that inflight keep increasing
>>>> until fio finish writing, after running for about 2 minutes:
>>>>
>>>> [root@...ora ~]# cat /sys/block/md0/inflight
>>>>          0  4474191
>>>>
>>>> Fix the problem by limiting the number of plugged bio based on the number
>>>> of copies for original bio.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@...wei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/md/raid1-10.c | 9 ++++++++-
>>>>    drivers/md/raid1.c    | 2 +-
>>>>    drivers/md/raid10.c   | 2 +-
>>>>    3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1-10.c b/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
>>>> index 98d678b7df3f..35fb80aa37aa 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1-10.c
>>>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>>>>    #define IO_MADE_GOOD ((struct bio *)2)
>>>>
>>>>    #define BIO_SPECIAL(bio) ((unsigned long)bio <= 2)
>>>> +#define MAX_PLUG_BIO 32
>>>>
>>>>    /* for managing resync I/O pages */
>>>>    struct resync_pages {
>>>> @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ struct resync_pages {
>>>>    struct raid1_plug_cb {
>>>>           struct blk_plug_cb      cb;
>>>>           struct bio_list         pending;
>>>> +       unsigned int            count;
>>>>    };
>>>>
>>>>    static void rbio_pool_free(void *rbio, void *data)
>>>> @@ -127,7 +129,7 @@ static inline void md_submit_write(struct bio *bio)
>>>>    }
>>>>
>>>>    static inline bool md_add_bio_to_plug(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
>>>> -                                     blk_plug_cb_fn unplug)
>>>> +                                     blk_plug_cb_fn unplug, int copies)
>>>>    {
>>>>           struct raid1_plug_cb *plug = NULL;
>>>>           struct blk_plug_cb *cb;
>>>> @@ -147,6 +149,11 @@ static inline bool md_add_bio_to_plug(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
>>>>
>>>>           plug = container_of(cb, struct raid1_plug_cb, cb);
>>>>           bio_list_add(&plug->pending, bio);
>>>> +       if (++plug->count / MAX_PLUG_BIO >= copies) {
>>>> +               list_del(&cb->list);
>>>> +               cb->callback(cb, false);
>>>> +       }
>>>> +
>>>>
>>>>           return true;
>>>>    }
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
>>>> index 639e09cecf01..c6066408a913 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
>>>> @@ -1562,7 +1562,7 @@ static void raid1_write_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio,
>>>>                                                 r1_bio->sector);
>>>>                   /* flush_pending_writes() needs access to the rdev so...*/
>>>>                   mbio->bi_bdev = (void *)rdev;
>>>> -               if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid1_unplug)) {
>>>> +               if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid1_unplug, disks)) {
>>>>                           spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
>>>>                           bio_list_add(&conf->pending_bio_list, mbio);
>>>>                           spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
>>>> index bd9e655ca408..7135cfaf75db 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
>>>> @@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ static void raid10_write_one_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct r10bio *r10_bio,
>>>>
>>>>           atomic_inc(&r10_bio->remaining);
>>>>
>>>> -       if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid10_unplug)) {
>>>> +       if (!md_add_bio_to_plug(mddev, mbio, raid10_unplug, conf->copies)) {
>>>>                   spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
>>>>                   bio_list_add(&conf->pending_bio_list, mbio);
>>>>                   spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
>>>> --
>>>> 2.39.2
>>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
> 
> .
> 

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