答复: 答复: [PATCH] fs-writeback: writeback_sb_inodes: Do not increase 'total_wrote' when nothing is written

From: Chunhai Guo
Date: Sat Sep 16 2023 - 02:02:27 EST


> >>> On Wed 13-09-23 07:15:01, Chunhai Guo wrote:
> >>>> From the dump info, there are only two pages as shown below. One
> >>>> is updated and another is under writeback. Maybe f2fs counts the
> >>>> writeback page as a dirty one, so get_dirty_pages() got one. As you
> >>>> said, maybe this is unreasonable.
> >>>>
> >>>> Jaegeuk & Chao, what do you think of this?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> crash_32> files -p 0xE5A44678
> >>>> INODE NRPAGES
> >>>> e5a44678 2
> >>>>
> >>>> PAGE PHYSICAL MAPPING INDEX CNT FLAGS
> >>>> e8d0e338 641de000 e5a44810 0 5 a095
> >>> locked,waiters,uptodate,lru,private,writeback
> >>>> e8ad59a0 54528000 e5a44810 1 2 2036
> >>> referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
> >>>
> >>> Indeed, incrementing pages_skipped when there's no dirty page is a bit odd.
> >>> That being said we could also harden requeue_inode() - in particular
> >>> we could do
> >>> there:
> >>>
> >>> if (wbc->pages_skipped) {
> >>> /*
> >>> * Writeback is not making progress due to locked buffers.
> >>> * Skip this inode for now. Although having skipped pages
> >>> * is odd for clean inodes, it can happen for some
> >>> * filesystems so handle that gracefully.
> >>> */
> >>> if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)
> >>> redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
> >>> else
> >>> inode_cgwb_move_to_attached(inode, wb);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Does this fix your problem as well?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Honza
> >>
> >> Thank you for your reply. Did you forget the 'return' statement? Since I
> encountered this issue on the 4.19 kernel and there is not
> inode_cgwb_move_to_attached() yet, I replaced it with
> inode_io_list_del_locked(). So, below is the test patch I am applying. Please
> have a check. By the way, the test will take some time. I will provide feedback
> when it is finished. Thanks.
> >
> > Yeah, I forgot about the return.
>
> Hi Jan,
> The test is finished and this patch can fix this issue, too.
> Thanks,

Hi Jan,
I have send the patch as you suggested.
Thanks,

> >> if (wbc->pages_skipped) {
> >> /*
> >> * writeback is not making progress due to locked
> >> * buffers. Skip this inode for now.
> >> */
> >> - redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
> >> + if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL)
> >> + redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
> >> + else
> >> + inode_io_list_del_locked(inode, wb);
> >> return;
> >> }
> >
> > Looks good. Thanks for testing!
> >
> > Honza