Re: [PATCH 6/6] jbd2: No need to use t_handle_lock in jbd2_journal_wait_updates

[Ritesh Harjani]

On 22/01/13 06:08PM, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> On 22/01/13 12:27PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Thu 13-01-22 08:56:29, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> > > Since jbd2_journal_wait_updates() uses waitq based on t_updates atomic_t
> > > variable. So from code review it looks like we don't need to use
> > > t_handle_lock spinlock for checking t_updates value.
> > > Hence this patch gets rid of the spinlock protection in
> > > jbd2_journal_wait_updates()
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch looks good. Feel free to add:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Actually looking at it, t_handle_lock seems to be very much unused. I agree

Thanks Jan for your help in this.
I have dropped this patch from v2 in order to discuss few more things and I felt
killing t_handle_lock completely can be sent in a seperate patch series.


>
> I too had this thought in mind. Thanks for taking a deeper look into it :)
>
> >
> > we don't need it when waiting for outstanding handles but the only
> > remaining uses are:
> >
> > 1) jbd2_journal_extend() where it is not needed either - we use
> > atomic_add_return() to manipulate t_outstanding_credits and hold
> > j_state_lock for reading which provides us enough exclusion.

I looked into jbd2_journal_extend and yes, we don't need t_handle_lock
for updating transaction->t_outstanding_credits, since it already happens with
atomic API calls.

Now I do see we update handle->h_**_credits in that function.
But I think this is per process (based on task_struct, current->journal_info)
and doesn't need a lock protection right?


> >
> > 2) update_t_max_wait() - this is the only valid use of t_handle_lock but we
> > can just switch it to cmpxchg loop with a bit of care. Something like:
> >
> > 	unsigned long old;
> >
> > 	ts = jbd2_time_diff(ts, transaction->t_start);
> > 	old = transaction->t_max_wait;
> > 	while (old < ts)
> > 		old = cmpxchg(&transaction->t_max_wait, old, ts);

I think there might be a simpler and more straight forward way for updating
t_max_wait.

I did look into the t_max_wait logic and where all we are updating it.

t_max_wait is the max wait time in starting (&attaching) a _new_ running
transaction by a handle. Is this understaning correct?
>From code I don't see t_max_wait getting updated for the time taken in order
to start the handle by a existing running transaction.

Here is how -
update_t_max_wait() will only update t_max_wait if the
transaction->t_start is after ts
(ts is nothing but when start_this_handle() was called).

1. This means that for transaction->t_start to be greater than ts, it has to be
   the new transaction that gets started right (in start_this_handle() func)?

2. Second place where transaction->t_start is updated is just after the start of
   commit phase 7. But this only means that this transaction has become the
   commit transaction. That means someone has to alloc a new running transaction
   which again is case-1.

Now I think this spinlock was added since multiple processes can start a handle
in parallel and attach a running transaction.

Also this was then moved within CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG since to avoid spinlock
contention on a SMP system in starting multiple handles by different processes.

Now looking at all of above, I think we can move update_t_max_wait()
inside jbd2_get_transaction() in start_this_handle(). Because that is where
a new transaction will be started and transaction->t_start will be greater then
ts. This also is protected within j_state_lock write_lock, so we don't need
spinlock.

This would also mean that we can move t_max_wait outside of CONFIG_JBD2_DEBUG
and jbd2_journal_enable_debug.

Jan, could you confirm if above understaning is correct and shall I go ahead
with above changes?

-ritesh

> >
> > So perhaps you can add two more patches to remove other t_handle_lock uses
> > and drop it completely.
>
> Thanks for providing the details Jan :)
> Agree with jbd2_journal_extend().





> I did looked a bit around t_max_wait and
> I agree that something like above could work. I will spend some more time around
> that code and will submit those changes together in v2.
>
> -ritesh
>
> >
> > 								Honza
> >
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/jbd2.h | 4 ----
> > >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> > > index 34b051aa9009..9bef47622b9d 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> > > @@ -1768,22 +1768,18 @@ static inline void jbd2_journal_wait_updates(journal_t *journal)
> > >  	if (!commit_transaction)
> > >  		return;
> > >
> > > -	spin_lock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock);
> > >  	while (atomic_read(&commit_transaction->t_updates)) {
> > >  		DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
> > >
> > >  		prepare_to_wait(&journal->j_wait_updates, &wait,
> > >  					TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> > >  		if (atomic_read(&commit_transaction->t_updates)) {
> > > -			spin_unlock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock);
> > >  			write_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> > >  			schedule();
> > >  			write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> > > -			spin_lock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock);
> > >  		}
> > >  		finish_wait(&journal->j_wait_updates, &wait);
> > >  	}
> > > -	spin_unlock(&commit_transaction->t_handle_lock);
> > >  }
> > >
> > >  /*
> > > --
> > > 2.31.1
> > >
> > --
> > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
> > SUSE Labs, CR