Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 5/5] f2fs: add a wait queue to avoid unnecessary, build_free_nid

From: Gu Zheng
Date: Mon Mar 10 2014 - 01:32:51 EST


Hi Changman,
On 03/10/2014 12:09 PM, Changman Lee wrote:

> On ê, 2014-03-07 at 18:43 +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
>> Previously, when we try to alloc free nid while the build free nid
>> is going, the allocer will be run into the flow that waiting for
>> "nm_i->build_lock", see following:
>> /* We should not use stale free nids created by build_free_nids */
>> ----> if (nm_i->fcnt && !on_build_free_nids(nm_i)) {
>> f2fs_bug_on(list_empty(&nm_i->free_nid_list));
>> list_for_each(this, &nm_i->free_nid_list) {
>> i = list_entry(this, struct free_nid, list);
>> if (i->state == NID_NEW)
>> break;
>> }
>>
>> f2fs_bug_on(i->state != NID_NEW);
>> *nid = i->nid;
>> i->state = NID_ALLOC;
>> nm_i->fcnt--;
>> spin_unlock(&nm_i->free_nid_list_lock);
>> return true;
>> }
>> spin_unlock(&nm_i->free_nid_list_lock);
>>
>> /* Let's scan nat pages and its caches to get free nids */
>> ----> mutex_lock(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> build_free_nids(sbi);
>> mutex_unlock(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> and this will cause another unnecessary building free nid if the current
>> building free nid job is done.
>> So here we introduce a wait_queue to avoid this issue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 1 +
>> fs/f2fs/node.c | 10 +++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>> index f845e92..7ae193e 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
>> @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ struct f2fs_nm_info {
>> spinlock_t free_nid_list_lock; /* protect free nid list */
>> unsigned int fcnt; /* the number of free node id */
>> struct mutex build_lock; /* lock for build free nids */
>> + wait_queue_head_t build_wq; /* wait queue for build free nids */
>>
>> /* for checkpoint */
>> char *nat_bitmap; /* NAT bitmap pointer */
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> index 4b7861d..ab44711 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> @@ -1422,7 +1422,13 @@ retry:
>> spin_lock(&nm_i->free_nid_list_lock);
>>
>> /* We should not use stale free nids created by build_free_nids */
>> - if (nm_i->fcnt && !on_build_free_nids(nm_i)) {
>> + if (on_build_free_nids(nm_i)) {
>> + spin_unlock(&nm_i->free_nid_list_lock);
>> + wait_event(nm_i->build_wq, !on_build_free_nids(nm_i));
>> + goto retry;
>> + }
>> +
>
> It would be better moving spin_lock(free_nid_list_lock) here after
> removing above spin_unlock().

Agree. It's better to place spin_lock here to avoid needless lock protection.

Regards,
Gu

>
>> + if (nm_i->fcnt) {
>> f2fs_bug_on(list_empty(&nm_i->free_nid_list));
>> list_for_each(this, &nm_i->free_nid_list) {
>> i = list_entry(this, struct free_nid, list);
>> @@ -1443,6 +1449,7 @@ retry:
>> mutex_lock(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> build_free_nids(sbi);
>> mutex_unlock(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> + wake_up_all(&nm_i->build_wq);
>> goto retry;
>> }
>>
>> @@ -1813,6 +1820,7 @@ static int init_node_manager(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nm_i->dirty_nat_entries);
>>
>> mutex_init(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> + init_waitqueue_head(&nm_i->build_wq);
>> spin_lock_init(&nm_i->free_nid_list_lock);
>> rwlock_init(&nm_i->nat_tree_lock);
>>
>
>
>


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