From a37b0715ddf3007734c4e2424c14bc7efcdd1190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:48:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/writeback: replace PF_LESS_THROTTLE with PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE PF_LESS_THROTTLE exists for loop-back nfsd (and a similar need in the loop block driver and callers of prctl(PR_SET_IO_FLUSHER)), where a daemon needs to write to one bdi (the final bdi) in order to free up writes queued to another bdi (the client bdi). The daemon sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE and gets a larger allowance of dirty pages, so that it can still dirty pages after other processses have been throttled. The purpose of this is to avoid deadlock that happen when the PF_LESS_THROTTLE process must write for any dirty pages to be freed, but it is being thottled and cannot write. This approach was designed when all threads were blocked equally, independently on which device they were writing to, or how fast it was. Since that time the writeback algorithm has changed substantially with different threads getting different allowances based on non-trivial heuristics. This means the simple "add 25%" heuristic is no longer reliable. The important issue is not that the daemon needs a *larger* dirty page allowance, but that it needs a *private* dirty page allowance, so that dirty pages for the "client" bdi that it is helping to clear (the bdi for an NFS filesystem or loop block device etc) do not affect the throttling of the daemon writing to the "final" bdi. This patch changes the heuristic so that the task is not throttled when the bdi it is writing to has a dirty page count below below (or equal to) the free-run threshold for that bdi. This ensures it will always be able to have some pages in flight, and so will not deadlock. In a steady-state, it is expected that PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks might still be throttled by global threshold, but that is acceptable as it is only the deadlock state that is interesting for this flag. This approach of "only throttle when target bdi is busy" is consistent with the other use of PF_LESS_THROTTLE in current_may_throttle(), were it causes attention to be focussed only on the target bdi. So this patch - renames PF_LESS_THROTTLE to PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE, - removes the 25% bonus that that flag gives, and - If PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE is set, don't delay at all unless the global and the local free-run thresholds are exceeded. Note that previously realtime threads were treated the same as PF_LESS_THROTTLE threads. This patch does *not* change the behvaiour for real-time threads, so it is now different from the behaviour of nfsd and loop tasks. I don't know what is wanted for realtime. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Chuck Lever [nfsd] Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Trond Myklebust Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87ftbf7gs3.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 9 +++++---- include/linux/sched.h | 3 ++- kernel/sys.c | 2 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index da693e6a834e..d89c25ba3b89 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static void loop_unprepare_queue(struct loop_device *lo) static int loop_kthread_worker_fn(void *worker_ptr) { - current->flags |= PF_LESS_THROTTLE | PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO; + current->flags |= PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE | PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO; return kthread_worker_fn(worker_ptr); } diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index 0aa02eb18bd3..c3fbab1753ec 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -979,12 +979,13 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct nfsd_file *nf, if (test_bit(RQ_LOCAL, &rqstp->rq_flags)) /* - * We want less throttling in balance_dirty_pages() - * and shrink_inactive_list() so that nfs to + * We want throttling in balance_dirty_pages() + * and shrink_inactive_list() to only consider + * the backingdev we are writing to, so that nfs to * localhost doesn't cause nfsd to lock up due to all * the client's dirty pages or its congested queue. */ - current->flags |= PF_LESS_THROTTLE; + current->flags |= PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE; exp = fhp->fh_export; use_wgather = (rqstp->rq_vers == 2) && EX_WGATHER(exp); @@ -1037,7 +1038,7 @@ out_nfserr: nfserr = nfserrno(host_err); } if (test_bit(RQ_LOCAL, &rqstp->rq_flags)) - current_restore_flags(pflags, PF_LESS_THROTTLE); + current_restore_flags(pflags, PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE); return nfserr; } diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 4418f5cb8324..12ef0c753284 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1481,7 +1481,8 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid; #define PF_KSWAPD 0x00020000 /* I am kswapd */ #define PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS 0x00040000 /* All allocation requests will inherit GFP_NOFS */ #define PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO 0x00080000 /* All allocation requests will inherit GFP_NOIO */ -#define PF_LESS_THROTTLE 0x00100000 /* Throttle me less: I clean memory */ +#define PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE 0x00100000 /* Throttle writes only against the bdi I write to, + * I am cleaning dirty pages from some other bdi. */ #define PF_KTHREAD 0x00200000 /* I am a kernel thread */ #define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* Randomize virtual address space */ #define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x00800000 /* Allowed to write to swap */ diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index d325f3ab624a..180a2fa33f7f 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -2262,7 +2262,7 @@ int __weak arch_prctl_spec_ctrl_set(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long which, return -EINVAL; } -#define PR_IO_FLUSHER (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | PF_LESS_THROTTLE) +#define PR_IO_FLUSHER (PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO | PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE) SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3, unsigned long, arg4, unsigned long, arg5) diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 2df6fb174983..7ff2290cf43d 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -387,8 +387,7 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void) * Calculate @dtc->thresh and ->bg_thresh considering * vm_dirty_{bytes|ratio} and dirty_background_{bytes|ratio}. The caller * must ensure that @dtc->avail is set before calling this function. The - * dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for PF_LESS_THROTTLE (ie. nfsd) and - * real-time tasks. + * dirty limits will be lifted by 1/4 for real-time tasks. */ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) { @@ -436,7 +435,7 @@ static void domain_dirty_limits(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc) if (bg_thresh >= thresh) bg_thresh = thresh / 2; tsk = current; - if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) { + if (rt_task(tsk)) { bg_thresh += bg_thresh / 4 + global_wb_domain.dirty_limit / 32; thresh += thresh / 4 + global_wb_domain.dirty_limit / 32; } @@ -486,7 +485,7 @@ static unsigned long node_dirty_limit(struct pglist_data *pgdat) else dirty = vm_dirty_ratio * node_memory / 100; - if (tsk->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE || rt_task(tsk)) + if (rt_task(tsk)) dirty += dirty / 4; return dirty; @@ -1653,8 +1652,12 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, if (dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(thresh, bg_thresh) && (!mdtc || m_dirty <= dirty_freerun_ceiling(m_thresh, m_bg_thresh))) { - unsigned long intv = dirty_poll_interval(dirty, thresh); - unsigned long m_intv = ULONG_MAX; + unsigned long intv; + unsigned long m_intv; + +free_running: + intv = dirty_poll_interval(dirty, thresh); + m_intv = ULONG_MAX; current->dirty_paused_when = now; current->nr_dirtied = 0; @@ -1673,9 +1676,20 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, * Calculate global domain's pos_ratio and select the * global dtc by default. */ - if (!strictlimit) + if (!strictlimit) { wb_dirty_limits(gdtc); + if ((current->flags & PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE) && + gdtc->wb_dirty < + dirty_freerun_ceiling(gdtc->wb_thresh, + gdtc->wb_bg_thresh)) + /* + * LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks must not be throttled + * when below the per-wb freerun ceiling. + */ + goto free_running; + } + dirty_exceeded = (gdtc->wb_dirty > gdtc->wb_thresh) && ((gdtc->dirty > gdtc->thresh) || strictlimit); @@ -1689,9 +1703,20 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct bdi_writeback *wb, * both global and memcg domains. Choose the one * w/ lower pos_ratio. */ - if (!strictlimit) + if (!strictlimit) { wb_dirty_limits(mdtc); + if ((current->flags & PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE) && + mdtc->wb_dirty < + dirty_freerun_ceiling(mdtc->wb_thresh, + mdtc->wb_bg_thresh)) + /* + * LOCAL_THROTTLE tasks must not be + * throttled when below the per-wb + * freerun ceiling. + */ + goto free_running; + } dirty_exceeded |= (mdtc->wb_dirty > mdtc->wb_thresh) && ((mdtc->dirty > mdtc->thresh) || strictlimit); diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index a37c87b5aee2..b2f5deb3603c 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1878,13 +1878,13 @@ static unsigned noinline_for_stack move_pages_to_lru(struct lruvec *lruvec, /* * If a kernel thread (such as nfsd for loop-back mounts) services - * a backing device by writing to the page cache it sets PF_LESS_THROTTLE. + * a backing device by writing to the page cache it sets PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE. * In that case we should only throttle if the backing device it is * writing to is congested. In other cases it is safe to throttle. */ static int current_may_throttle(void) { - return !(current->flags & PF_LESS_THROTTLE) || + return !(current->flags & PF_LOCAL_THROTTLE) || current->backing_dev_info == NULL || bdi_write_congested(current->backing_dev_info); }