[Cluster-devel] [PATCH][GFS2] Bouncing locks in a cluster is slow in GFS2 - Try #2

Bob Peterson rpeterso at redhat.com
Thu Jan 27 02:25:44 UTC 2011


----- Original Message -----
| Hi,
| 
| You shouldn't need to do the dual workqueue trick upstream since the
| workqueues will already start as many threads as required (so even
| better than just using the two here). If that isn't happening we
| should
| ask Tejun about it.
| 
| So I think we only need the min hold time bit here,
| 
| Steve.
Hi,

Based on your feedback, I reworked this patch a bit.  This is take two.
Rather than using a "qwork" function to police the delay based on
glock type, I went back to the original queue_delayed_work and
adjusted delay based on glock type.  So this version has fewer lines
changed, but still accomplishes the same thing.

Note that I had to tweak function glock_work_func in order to
preserve the rather odd logic that decides whether or not to
actually queue the work.

This patch is a performance improvement for GFS2 in a clustered
environment. It makes the glock hold time self-adjusting.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat File Systems

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso at redhat.com>

Bouncing locks in a cluster is slow in GFS2
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[Cluster-devel] [PATCH][GFS2] Bouncing locks in a cluster is slow in GFS2

 fs/gfs2/glock.c  |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 fs/gfs2/glock.h  |    6 ++++++
 fs/gfs2/glops.c  |    2 --
 fs/gfs2/incore.h |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index c75d499..0523b20 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -407,6 +407,10 @@ static void state_change(struct gfs2_glock *gl, unsigned int new_state)
 	if (held1 && held2 && list_empty(&gl->gl_holders))
 		clear_bit(GLF_QUEUED, &gl->gl_flags);
 
+	if (new_state != gl->gl_target)
+		/* shorten our minimum hold time */
+		gl->gl_hold_time = max(gl->gl_hold_time - GL_GLOCK_HOLD_DECR,
+				       GL_GLOCK_MIN_HOLD);
 	gl->gl_state = new_state;
 	gl->gl_tchange = jiffies;
 }
@@ -670,16 +674,21 @@ static void glock_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
 	    gl->gl_state != LM_ST_UNLOCKED &&
 	    gl->gl_demote_state != LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE) {
 		unsigned long holdtime, now = jiffies;
-		holdtime = gl->gl_tchange + gl->gl_ops->go_min_hold_time;
+		holdtime = gl->gl_tchange + gl->gl_hold_time;
 		if (time_before(now, holdtime))
 			delay = holdtime - now;
 		set_bit(delay ? GLF_PENDING_DEMOTE : GLF_DEMOTE, &gl->gl_flags);
 	}
 	run_queue(gl, 0);
 	spin_unlock(&gl->gl_spin);
-	if (!delay ||
-	    queue_delayed_work(glock_workqueue, &gl->gl_work, delay) == 0)
+	if (!delay)
 		gfs2_glock_put(gl);
+	else {
+		if (gl->gl_name.ln_type != LM_TYPE_INODE)
+			delay = 0;
+		if (queue_delayed_work(glock_workqueue, &gl->gl_work, delay) == 0)
+			gfs2_glock_put(gl);
+	}
 	if (drop_ref)
 		gfs2_glock_put(gl);
 }
@@ -741,6 +750,7 @@ int gfs2_glock_get(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, u64 number,
 	gl->gl_tchange = jiffies;
 	gl->gl_object = NULL;
 	gl->gl_sbd = sdp;
+	gl->gl_hold_time = GL_GLOCK_DFT_HOLD;
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&gl->gl_work, glock_work_func);
 	INIT_WORK(&gl->gl_delete, delete_work_func);
 
@@ -852,8 +862,15 @@ static int gfs2_glock_demote_wait(void *word)
 
 static void wait_on_holder(struct gfs2_holder *gh)
 {
+	unsigned long time1 = jiffies;
+
 	might_sleep();
 	wait_on_bit(&gh->gh_iflags, HIF_WAIT, gfs2_glock_holder_wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+	if (time_after(jiffies, time1 + HZ)) /* have we waited > a second? */
+		/* Lengthen the minimum hold time. */
+		gh->gh_gl->gl_hold_time = min(gh->gh_gl->gl_hold_time +
+					      GL_GLOCK_HOLD_INCR,
+					      GL_GLOCK_MAX_HOLD);
 }
 
 static void wait_on_demote(struct gfs2_glock *gl)
@@ -1086,8 +1103,9 @@ void gfs2_glock_dq(struct gfs2_holder *gh)
 
 	gfs2_glock_hold(gl);
 	if (test_bit(GLF_PENDING_DEMOTE, &gl->gl_flags) &&
-	    !test_bit(GLF_DEMOTE, &gl->gl_flags))
-		delay = gl->gl_ops->go_min_hold_time;
+	    !test_bit(GLF_DEMOTE, &gl->gl_flags) &&
+	    gl->gl_name.ln_type == LM_TYPE_INODE)
+		delay = gl->gl_hold_time;
 	if (queue_delayed_work(glock_workqueue, &gl->gl_work, delay) == 0)
 		gfs2_glock_put(gl);
 }
@@ -1270,12 +1288,13 @@ void gfs2_glock_cb(struct gfs2_glock *gl, unsigned int state)
 	unsigned long now = jiffies;
 
 	gfs2_glock_hold(gl);
-	holdtime = gl->gl_tchange + gl->gl_ops->go_min_hold_time;
-	if (test_bit(GLF_QUEUED, &gl->gl_flags)) {
+	holdtime = gl->gl_tchange + gl->gl_hold_time;
+	if (test_bit(GLF_QUEUED, &gl->gl_flags) &&
+	    gl->gl_name.ln_type == LM_TYPE_INODE) {
 		if (time_before(now, holdtime))
 			delay = holdtime - now;
 		if (test_bit(GLF_REPLY_PENDING, &gl->gl_flags))
-			delay = gl->gl_ops->go_min_hold_time;
+			delay = gl->gl_hold_time;
 	}
 
 	spin_lock(&gl->gl_spin);
@@ -1658,7 +1677,7 @@ static int __dump_glock(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_glock *gl)
 	dtime *= 1000000/HZ; /* demote time in uSec */
 	if (!test_bit(GLF_DEMOTE, &gl->gl_flags))
 		dtime = 0;
-	gfs2_print_dbg(seq, "G:  s:%s n:%u/%llx f:%s t:%s d:%s/%llu a:%d r:%d\n",
+	gfs2_print_dbg(seq, "G:  s:%s n:%u/%llx f:%s t:%s d:%s/%llu a:%d r:%d m:%ld\n",
 		  state2str(gl->gl_state),
 		  gl->gl_name.ln_type,
 		  (unsigned long long)gl->gl_name.ln_number,
@@ -1666,7 +1685,7 @@ static int __dump_glock(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_glock *gl)
 		  state2str(gl->gl_target),
 		  state2str(gl->gl_demote_state), dtime,
 		  atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count),
-		  atomic_read(&gl->gl_ref));
+		  atomic_read(&gl->gl_ref), gl->gl_hold_time);
 
 	list_for_each_entry(gh, &gl->gl_holders, gh_list) {
 		error = dump_holder(seq, gh);
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.h b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
index afa8bfe..3233add 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.h
@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ enum {
 
 #define GLR_TRYFAILED		13
 
+#define GL_GLOCK_MAX_HOLD        (long)(HZ / 5)
+#define GL_GLOCK_DFT_HOLD        (long)(HZ / 5)
+#define GL_GLOCK_MIN_HOLD        (long)(0)
+#define GL_GLOCK_HOLD_INCR       (long)(HZ / 20)
+#define GL_GLOCK_HOLD_DECR       (long)(HZ / 40)
+
 struct lm_lockops {
 	const char *lm_proto_name;
 	int (*lm_mount) (struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, const char *fsname);
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glops.c b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
index ac5fac9..bba125e 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
@@ -399,7 +399,6 @@ const struct gfs2_glock_operations gfs2_inode_glops = {
 	.go_lock = inode_go_lock,
 	.go_dump = inode_go_dump,
 	.go_type = LM_TYPE_INODE,
-	.go_min_hold_time = HZ / 5,
 	.go_flags = GLOF_ASPACE,
 };
 
@@ -410,7 +409,6 @@ const struct gfs2_glock_operations gfs2_rgrp_glops = {
 	.go_unlock = rgrp_go_unlock,
 	.go_dump = gfs2_rgrp_dump,
 	.go_type = LM_TYPE_RGRP,
-	.go_min_hold_time = HZ / 5,
 	.go_flags = GLOF_ASPACE,
 };
 
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/incore.h b/fs/gfs2/incore.h
index 720c1e6..f21f075 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/incore.h
+++ b/fs/gfs2/incore.h
@@ -163,7 +163,6 @@ struct gfs2_glock_operations {
 	int (*go_dump)(struct seq_file *seq, const struct gfs2_glock *gl);
 	void (*go_callback) (struct gfs2_glock *gl);
 	const int go_type;
-	const unsigned long go_min_hold_time;
 	const unsigned long go_flags;
 #define GLOF_ASPACE 1
 };
@@ -237,6 +236,7 @@ struct gfs2_glock {
 	struct delayed_work gl_work;
 	struct work_struct gl_delete;
 	struct rcu_head gl_rcu;
+	long gl_hold_time;
 };
 
 #define GFS2_MIN_LVB_SIZE 32	/* Min size of LVB that gfs2 supports */




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