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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h index 938edd19a8a6..ec22c7a3867f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ struct xfs_cil_ctx { struct xfs_log_vec *lv_chain; /* logvecs being pushed */ struct list_head iclog_entry; struct list_head committing; /* ctx committing list */ + wait_queue_head_t push_wait; /* background push throttle */ struct work_struct discard_endio_work; }; @@ -337,10 +338,33 @@ struct xfs_cil { * buffer window (32MB) as measurements have shown this to be roughly the * point of diminishing performance increases under highly concurrent * modification workloads. + * + * To prevent the CIL from overflowing upper commit size bounds, we introduce a + * new threshold at which we block committing transactions until the background + * CIL commit commences and switches to a new context. While this is not a hard + * limit, it forces the process committing a transaction to the CIL to block and + * yeild the CPU, giving the CIL push work a chance to be scheduled and start + * work. This prevents a process running lots of transactions from overfilling + * the CIL because it is not yielding the CPU. We set the blocking limit at + * twice the background push space threshold so we keep in line with the AIL + * push thresholds. + * + * Note: this is not a -hard- limit as blocking is applied after the transaction + * is inserted into the CIL and the push has been triggered. It is largely a + * throttling mechanism that allows the CIL push to be scheduled and run. A hard + * limit will be difficult to implement without introducing global serialisation + * in the CIL commit fast path, and it's not at all clear that we actually need + * such hard limits given the ~7 years we've run without a hard limit before + * finding the first situation where a checkpoint size overflow actually + * occurred. Hence the simple throttle, and an ASSERT check to tell us that + * we've overrun the max size. */ #define XLOG_CIL_SPACE_LIMIT(log) \ min_t(int, (log)->l_logsize >> 3, BBTOB(XLOG_TOTAL_REC_SHIFT(log)) << 4) +#define XLOG_CIL_BLOCKING_SPACE_LIMIT(log) \ + (XLOG_CIL_SPACE_LIMIT(log) * 2) + /* * ticket grant locks, queues and accounting have their own cachlines * as these are quite hot and can be operated on concurrently. |