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[05/20] bcache: Move journal work to new flush wq

Message ID 20210210050742.31237-6-colyli@suse.de
State New
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Commit Message

Coly Li Feb. 10, 2021, 5:07 a.m. UTC 
From: Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>

This is potentially long running and not latency sensitive, let's get
it out of the way of other latency sensitive events.

As observed in the previous commit, the `system_wq` comes easily
congested by bcache, and this fixes a few more stalls I was observing
every once in a while.

Let's not make this `WQ_MEM_RECLAIM` as it showed to reduce performance
of boot and file system operations in my tests. Also, without
`WQ_MEM_RECLAIM`, I no longer see desktop stalls. This matches the
previous behavior as `system_wq` also does no memory reclaim:

> // workqueue.c:
> system_wq = alloc_workqueue("events", 0, 0);

Cc: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Signed-off-by: Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h  |  1 +
 drivers/md/bcache/journal.c |  4 ++--
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c   | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
index 2b8c7dd2cfae..848dd4db1659 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
@@ -1005,6 +1005,7 @@  void bch_write_bdev_super(struct cached_dev *dc, struct closure *parent);
 
 extern struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
 extern struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
+extern struct workqueue_struct *bch_flush_wq;
 extern struct mutex bch_register_lock;
 extern struct list_head bch_cache_sets;
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
index aefbdb7e003b..c6613e817333 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c
@@ -932,8 +932,8 @@  atomic_t *bch_journal(struct cache_set *c,
 		journal_try_write(c);
 	} else if (!w->dirty) {
 		w->dirty = true;
-		schedule_delayed_work(&c->journal.work,
-				      msecs_to_jiffies(c->journal_delay_ms));
+		queue_delayed_work(bch_flush_wq, &c->journal.work,
+				   msecs_to_jiffies(c->journal_delay_ms));
 		spin_unlock(&c->journal.lock);
 	} else {
 		spin_unlock(&c->journal.lock);
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index 85a44a0cffe0..0228ccb293fc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@  static int bcache_major;
 static DEFINE_IDA(bcache_device_idx);
 static wait_queue_head_t unregister_wait;
 struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
+struct workqueue_struct *bch_flush_wq;
 struct workqueue_struct *bch_journal_wq;
 
 
@@ -2821,6 +2822,8 @@  static void bcache_exit(void)
 		destroy_workqueue(bcache_wq);
 	if (bch_journal_wq)
 		destroy_workqueue(bch_journal_wq);
+	if (bch_flush_wq)
+		destroy_workqueue(bch_flush_wq);
 	bch_btree_exit();
 
 	if (bcache_major)
@@ -2884,6 +2887,19 @@  static int __init bcache_init(void)
 	if (!bcache_wq)
 		goto err;
 
+	/*
+	 * Let's not make this `WQ_MEM_RECLAIM` for the following reasons:
+	 *
+	 * 1. It used `system_wq` before which also does no memory reclaim.
+	 * 2. With `WQ_MEM_RECLAIM` desktop stalls, increased boot times, and
+	 *    reduced throughput can be observed.
+	 *
+	 * We still want to user our own queue to not congest the `system_wq`.
+	 */
+	bch_flush_wq = alloc_workqueue("bch_flush", 0, 0);
+	if (!bch_flush_wq)
+		goto err;
+
 	bch_journal_wq = alloc_workqueue("bch_journal", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
 	if (!bch_journal_wq)
 		goto err;