xfs: serialise inode reclaim within an AG

Memory reclaim via shrinkers has a terrible habit of having N+M
concurrent shrinker executions (N = num CPUs, M = num kswapds) all
trying to shrink the same cache. When the cache they are all working
on is protected by a single spinlock, massive contention an
slowdowns occur.

Wrap the per-ag inode caches with a reclaim mutex to serialise
reclaim access to the AG. This will block concurrent reclaim in each
AG but still allow reclaim to scan multiple AGs concurrently. Allow
shrinkers to move on to the next AG if it can't get the lock, and if
we can't get any AG, then start blocking on locks.

To prevent reclaimers from continually scanning the same inodes in
each AG, add a cursor that tracks where the last reclaim got up to
and start from that point on the next reclaim. This should avoid
only ever scanning a small number of inodes at the satart of each AG
and not making progress. If we have a non-shrinker based reclaim
pass, ignore the cursor and reset it to zero once we are done.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index 754bc59..37d3325 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -837,8 +837,12 @@ xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag(
 	int			error = 0;
 	int			last_error = 0;
 	xfs_agnumber_t		ag;
+	int			trylock = flags & SYNC_TRYLOCK;
+	int			skipped;
 
+restart:
 	ag = 0;
+	skipped = 0;
 	while ((pag = xfs_perag_get_tag(mp, ag, XFS_ICI_RECLAIM_TAG))) {
 		unsigned long	first_index = 0;
 		int		done = 0;
@@ -846,6 +850,15 @@ xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag(
 
 		ag = pag->pag_agno + 1;
 
+		if (trylock) {
+			if (!mutex_trylock(&pag->pag_ici_reclaim_lock)) {
+				skipped++;
+				continue;
+			}
+			first_index = pag->pag_ici_reclaim_cursor;
+		} else
+			mutex_lock(&pag->pag_ici_reclaim_lock);
+
 		do {
 			struct xfs_inode *batch[XFS_LOOKUP_BATCH];
 			int	i;
@@ -898,8 +911,25 @@ xfs_reclaim_inodes_ag(
 
 		} while (nr_found && !done && *nr_to_scan > 0);
 
+		if (trylock && !done)
+			pag->pag_ici_reclaim_cursor = first_index;
+		else
+			pag->pag_ici_reclaim_cursor = 0;
+		mutex_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_reclaim_lock);
 		xfs_perag_put(pag);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * if we skipped any AG, and we still have scan count remaining, do
+	 * another pass this time using blocking reclaim semantics (i.e
+	 * waiting on the reclaim locks and ignoring the reclaim cursors). This
+	 * ensure that when we get more reclaimers than AGs we block rather
+	 * than spin trying to execute reclaim.
+	 */
+	if (trylock && skipped && *nr_to_scan > 0) {
+		trylock = 0;
+		goto restart;
+	}
 	return XFS_ERROR(last_error);
 }