[dm-devel] dm bufio: Reduce dm_bufio_lock contention

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Mike Snitzer wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 12 2018 at  4:03am -0400,
> Jing Xia <jing.xia.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Performance test in android reports that the phone sometimes gets
> > hanged and shows black screen for about several minutes.The sysdump shows:
> > 1. kswapd and other tasks who enter the direct-reclaim path are waiting
> > on the dm_bufio_lock;
> 
> Do you have an understanding of where they are waiting?  Is it in
> dm_bufio_shrink_scan()?
> 
> > 2. the task who gets the dm_bufio_lock is stalled for IO completions,
> > the relevant stack trace as :
> > 
> > PID: 22920  TASK: ffffffc0120f1a00  CPU: 1   COMMAND: "kworker/u8:2"
> >  #0 [ffffffc0282af3d0] __switch_to at ffffff8008085e48
> >  #1 [ffffffc0282af3f0] __schedule at ffffff8008850cc8
> >  #2 [ffffffc0282af450] schedule at ffffff8008850f4c
> >  #3 [ffffffc0282af470] schedule_timeout at ffffff8008853a0c
> >  #4 [ffffffc0282af520] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible at ffffff8008853aa8
> >  #5 [ffffffc0282af530] wait_iff_congested at ffffff8008181b40
> >  #6 [ffffffc0282af5b0] shrink_inactive_list at ffffff8008177c80
> >  #7 [ffffffc0282af680] shrink_lruvec at ffffff8008178510
> >  #8 [ffffffc0282af790] mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone at ffffff80081793bc
> >  #9 [ffffffc0282af840] mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim at ffffff80081b6040

Please send the full stacktrace of this task.

Then, we can see, why is it waiting here.

Mikulas