[PATCH 4.18 118/158] f2fs: try grabbing node page lock aggressively in sync scenario

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 17 2018 - 19:13:03 EST


4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 4b270a8cc5047682f0a3f3f9af3b498408dbd2bc ]

In synchronous scenario, like in checkpoint(), we are going to flush
dirty node pages to device synchronously, we can easily failed
writebacking node page due to trylock_page() failure, especially in
condition of intensive lock competition, which can cause long latency
of checkpoint(). So let's use lock_page() in synchronous scenario to
avoid this issue.

Signed-off-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/node.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,9 @@ next_step:
!is_cold_node(page)))
continue;
lock_node:
- if (!trylock_page(page))
+ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL)
+ lock_page(page);
+ else if (!trylock_page(page))
continue;

if (unlikely(page->mapping != NODE_MAPPING(sbi))) {