Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: shrink spinlock coverage

[Chao Yu]

On 2020/5/6 23:05, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 05/06, Chao Yu wrote:
>> In f2fs_try_to_free_nids(), .nid_list_lock spinlock critical region will
>> increase as expected shrink number increase, to avoid spining other CPUs
>> for long time, it's better to implement like extent cache and nats
>> shrinker.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2:
>> - fix unlock wrong spinlock.
>>  fs/f2fs/node.c | 15 +++++++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/node.c b/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> index 4da0d8713df5..ad0b14f4dab8 100644
>> --- a/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> +++ b/fs/f2fs/node.c
>> @@ -2488,7 +2488,6 @@ void f2fs_alloc_nid_failed(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, nid_t nid)
>>  int f2fs_try_to_free_nids(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int nr_shrink)
>>  {
>>  	struct f2fs_nm_info *nm_i = NM_I(sbi);
>> -	struct free_nid *i, *next;
>>  	int nr = nr_shrink;
>>  
>>  	if (nm_i->nid_cnt[FREE_NID] <= MAX_FREE_NIDS)
>> @@ -2498,14 +2497,22 @@ int f2fs_try_to_free_nids(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int nr_shrink)
>>  		return 0;
>>  
>>  	spin_lock(&nm_i->nid_list_lock);
>> -	list_for_each_entry_safe(i, next, &nm_i->free_nid_list, list) {
>> -		if (nr_shrink <= 0 ||
>> -				nm_i->nid_cnt[FREE_NID] <= MAX_FREE_NIDS)
>> +	while (nr_shrink) {
>> +		struct free_nid *i;
>> +
>> +		if (nm_i->nid_cnt[FREE_NID] <= MAX_FREE_NIDS)
>>  			break;
>>  
>> +		i = list_first_entry(&nm_i->free_nid_list,
>> +					struct free_nid, list);
>> +		list_del(&i->list);
>> +		spin_unlock(&nm_i->nid_list_lock);
>> +
>>  		__remove_free_nid(sbi, i, FREE_NID);
> 
> __remove_free_nid() will do list_del again. btw, how about just splitting out

Oh, my bad.

How about moving __remove_free_nid into .nid_list_lock coverage?

> given nr_shrink into multiple trials?

Like this?

	while (shrink) {
		batch = DEFAULT_BATCH_NUMBER; // 16
		spinlock();
		list_for_each_entry_safe() {
			if (!shrink || !batch)
				break;
			remove_item_from_list;
			shrink--;
			batch--;
		}
		spin_unlock();
	}

Thanks,

> 
>>  		kmem_cache_free(free_nid_slab, i);
>>  		nr_shrink--;
>> +
>> +		spin_lock(&nm_i->nid_list_lock);
>>  	}
>>  	spin_unlock(&nm_i->nid_list_lock);
>>  	mutex_unlock(&nm_i->build_lock);
>> -- 
>> 2.18.0.rc1
> .
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