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author | Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> | 2024-03-26 01:46:46 +0300 |
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committer | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> | 2024-04-10 00:20:32 +0300 |
commit | 1db7959aacd905e6487d0478ac01d89f86eb1e51 (patch) | |
tree | d784ed0b25cc830a22c77d0fbb385acf9f5bad97 /fs | |
parent | 073bda7a541731f41ed08f32d286394236c74005 (diff) | |
download | linux-1db7959aacd905e6487d0478ac01d89f86eb1e51.tar.xz |
btrfs: do not wait for short bulk allocation
[BUG]
There is a recent report that when memory pressure is high (including
cached pages), btrfs can spend most of its time on memory allocation in
btrfs_alloc_page_array() for compressed read/write.
[CAUSE]
For btrfs_alloc_page_array() we always go alloc_pages_bulk_array(), and
even if the bulk allocation failed (fell back to single page
allocation) we still retry but with extra memalloc_retry_wait().
If the bulk alloc only returned one page a time, we would spend a lot of
time on the retry wait.
The behavior was introduced in commit 395cb57e8560 ("btrfs: wait between
incomplete batch memory allocations").
[FIX]
Although the commit mentioned that other filesystems do the wait, it's
not the case at least nowadays.
All the mainlined filesystems only call memalloc_retry_wait() if they
failed to allocate any page (not only for bulk allocation).
If there is any progress, they won't call memalloc_retry_wait() at all.
For example, xfs_buf_alloc_pages() would only call memalloc_retry_wait()
if there is no allocation progress at all, and the call is not for
metadata readahead.
So I don't believe we should call memalloc_retry_wait() unconditionally
for short allocation.
Call memalloc_retry_wait() if it fails to allocate any page for tree
block allocation (which goes with __GFP_NOFAIL and may not need the
special handling anyway), and reduce the latency for
btrfs_alloc_page_array().
Reported-by: Julian Taylor <julian.taylor@1und1.de>
Tested-by: Julian Taylor <julian.taylor@1und1.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8966c095-cbe7-4d22-9784-a647d1bf27c3@1und1.de/
Fixes: 395cb57e8560 ("btrfs: wait between incomplete batch memory allocations")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1+
Reviewed-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c index b18034f2ab80..2776112dbdf8 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c @@ -681,31 +681,21 @@ static void end_bbio_data_read(struct btrfs_bio *bbio) int btrfs_alloc_page_array(unsigned int nr_pages, struct page **page_array, gfp_t extra_gfp) { + const gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS | extra_gfp; unsigned int allocated; for (allocated = 0; allocated < nr_pages;) { unsigned int last = allocated; - allocated = alloc_pages_bulk_array(GFP_NOFS | extra_gfp, - nr_pages, page_array); - - if (allocated == nr_pages) - return 0; - - /* - * During this iteration, no page could be allocated, even - * though alloc_pages_bulk_array() falls back to alloc_page() - * if it could not bulk-allocate. So we must be out of memory. - */ - if (allocated == last) { + allocated = alloc_pages_bulk_array(gfp, nr_pages, page_array); + if (unlikely(allocated == last)) { + /* No progress, fail and do cleanup. */ for (int i = 0; i < allocated; i++) { __free_page(page_array[i]); page_array[i] = NULL; } return -ENOMEM; } - - memalloc_retry_wait(GFP_NOFS); } return 0; } |