ext4: improve ext4lazyinit scalability

ext4lazyinit is a global thread. This thread performs itable
initalization under li_list_mtx mutex.

It basically does the following:
ext4_lazyinit_thread
  ->mutex_lock(&eli->li_list_mtx);
  ->ext4_run_li_request(elr)
    ->ext4_init_inode_table-> Do a lot of IO if the list is large

And when new mount/umount arrive they have to block on ->li_list_mtx
because  lazy_thread holds it during full walk procedure.
ext4_fill_super
 ->ext4_register_li_request
   ->mutex_lock(&ext4_li_info->li_list_mtx);
   ->list_add(&elr->lr_request, &ext4_li_info >li_request_list);
In my case mount takes 40minutes on server with 36 * 4Tb HDD.
Common user may face this in case of very slow dev ( /dev/mmcblkXXX)
Even more. If one of filesystems was frozen lazyinit_thread will simply
block on sb_start_write() so other mount/umount will be stuck forever.

This patch changes logic like follows:
- grab ->s_umount read sem before processing new li_request.
  After that it is safe to drop li_list_mtx because all callers of
  li_remove_request are holding ->s_umount for write.
- li_thread skips frozen SB's

Locking order:
Mh KOrder is asserted by umount path like follows: s_umount ->li_list_mtx so
the only way to to grab ->s_mount inside li_thread is via down_read_trylock

xfstests:ext4/023
#PSBM-49658

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 5819b0e..50912cc 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2749,7 +2749,6 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 	sb = elr->lr_super;
 	ngroups = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_groups_count;
 
-	sb_start_write(sb);
 	for (group = elr->lr_next_group; group < ngroups; group++) {
 		gdp = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, group, NULL);
 		if (!gdp) {
@@ -2776,8 +2775,6 @@ static int ext4_run_li_request(struct ext4_li_request *elr)
 		elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies + elr->lr_timeout;
 		elr->lr_next_group = group + 1;
 	}
-	sb_end_write(sb);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -2842,19 +2839,43 @@ cont_thread:
 			mutex_unlock(&eli->li_list_mtx);
 			goto exit_thread;
 		}
-
 		list_for_each_safe(pos, n, &eli->li_request_list) {
+			int err = 0;
+			int progress = 0;
 			elr = list_entry(pos, struct ext4_li_request,
 					 lr_request);
 
-			if (time_after_eq(jiffies, elr->lr_next_sched)) {
-				if (ext4_run_li_request(elr) != 0) {
-					/* error, remove the lazy_init job */
-					ext4_remove_li_request(elr);
-					continue;
+			if (time_before(jiffies, elr->lr_next_sched)) {
+				if (time_before(elr->lr_next_sched, next_wakeup))
+					next_wakeup = elr->lr_next_sched;
+				continue;
+			}
+			if (down_read_trylock(&elr->lr_super->s_umount)) {
+				if (sb_start_write_trylock(elr->lr_super)) {
+					progress = 1;
+					/*
+					 * We hold sb->s_umount, sb can not
+					 * be removed from the list, it is
+					 * now safe to drop li_list_mtx
+					 */
+					mutex_unlock(&eli->li_list_mtx);
+					err = ext4_run_li_request(elr);
+					sb_end_write(elr->lr_super);
+					mutex_lock(&eli->li_list_mtx);
+					n = pos->next;
 				}
+				up_read((&elr->lr_super->s_umount));
+			}
+			/* error, remove the lazy_init job */
+			if (err) {
+				ext4_remove_li_request(elr);
+				continue;
+			}
+			if (!progress) {
+				elr->lr_next_sched = jiffies +
+					(prandom_u32()
+					 % (EXT4_DEF_LI_MAX_START_DELAY * HZ));
 			}
-
 			if (time_before(elr->lr_next_sched, next_wakeup))
 				next_wakeup = elr->lr_next_sched;
 		}