[PATCH v6 0/2] mm: improve write performance with RWF_DONTCACHE

[Jeff Layton]

This patch series is intended to improve write performance with
RWF_DONTCACHE. After sending v5 yesterday, I decided to check what
Sasiko thought about this series, and lo and behold it had found a
number of bugs that I had missed before. This set should fix them.
Performance is identical to the v5 set.

Because there are some substantive changes in this set, I've dropped the
R-b's. Please resend them if you're OK with this version.

Christian, please consider these for v7.2.

Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v6:
- Use atomic folio_test_clear_dropbehind() in __filemap_get_folio_mpol()
  to prevent double-decrement of WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY by concurrent readers
- Add mapping_can_writeback() guard before decrementing WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY
  in __filemap_get_folio_mpol() to match the increment path
- Use wb_stat_sum() instead of wb_stat() in wb_check_start_dontcache() so
  small writes below the percpu batch threshold are visible to the flusher
- Use test_and_clear_bit for WB_start_dontcache before starting writeback
  to prevent lost wakeups from concurrent DONTCACHE writers
- Move wb_wakeup() outside the unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin/end section in
  filemap_dontcache_kick_writeback() to avoid spin_unlock_irq() re-enabling
  interrupts while the i_pages xa_lock is held during cgroup writeback switch
- Drop Reviewed-by tags due to substantive changes
- Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260504-dontcache-v5-0-4103e58bb377@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v5:
- Flesh out comment over filemap_dontcache_kick_writeback()
- Drop testcases from posting
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260501-dontcache-v4-0-5d5e6dc71cb3@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v4:
- Track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback
- New benchmark for competing buffered and dontcache writers
- New benchmark replicating Jens' original 32 concurrent writer test
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260426-dontcache-v3-0-79eb37da9547@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v3:
- Track dirty DONTCACHE pages in the VM
- Have flusher write back a proportional number of pages after DONTCACHE write
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260408-dontcache-v2-0-948dec1e756b@xxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v2:
- kick flusher thread instead of initiating writeback inline
- add mechanism to run 'perf lock' around the testcases
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260401-dontcache-v1-0-1f5746fab47a@xxxxxxxxxx

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Jeff Layton (2):
      mm: track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback
      mm: kick writeback flusher for IOCB_DONTCACHE with targeted dirty tracking

 fs/fs-writeback.c                | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h |  3 ++
 include/linux/fs.h               |  6 ++--
 include/trace/events/writeback.h |  3 +-
 mm/filemap.c                     | 15 ++++++++--
 mm/page-writeback.c              |  6 ++++
 6 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 7e2326f4275c11652e1fdaae11de06159fef1d90
change-id: 20260401-dontcache-5811efd7eaf3

Best regards,
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>