This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
bcache: segregate flash only volume write streams
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: bcache-segregate-flash-only-volume-write-streams.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Apr 10 13:58:07 CEST 2018
From: Tang Junhui tang.junhui@zte.com.cn Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 12:21:21 -0800 Subject: bcache: segregate flash only volume write streams
From: Tang Junhui tang.junhui@zte.com.cn
[ Upstream commit 4eca1cb28d8b0574ca4f1f48e9331c5f852d43b9 ]
In such scenario that there are some flash only volumes , and some cached devices, when many tasks request these devices in writeback mode, the write IOs may fall to the same bucket as bellow: | cached data | flash data | cached data | cached data| flash data| then after writeback of these cached devices, the bucket would be like bellow bucket: | free | flash data | free | free | flash data |
So, there are many free space in this bucket, but since data of flash only volumes still exists, so this bucket cannot be reclaimable, which would cause waste of bucket space.
In this patch, we segregate flash only volume write streams from cached devices, so data from flash only volumes and cached devices can store in different buckets.
Compare to v1 patch, this patch do not add a additionally open bucket list, and it is try best to segregate flash only volume write streams from cached devices, sectors of flash only volumes may still be mixed with dirty sectors of cached device, but the number is very small.
[mlyle: fixed commit log formatting, permissions, line endings]
Signed-off-by: Tang Junhui tang.junhui@zte.com.cn Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle mlyle@lyle.org Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle mlyle@lyle.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/alloc.c @@ -514,15 +514,21 @@ struct open_bucket {
/* * We keep multiple buckets open for writes, and try to segregate different - * write streams for better cache utilization: first we look for a bucket where - * the last write to it was sequential with the current write, and failing that - * we look for a bucket that was last used by the same task. + * write streams for better cache utilization: first we try to segregate flash + * only volume write streams from cached devices, secondly we look for a bucket + * where the last write to it was sequential with the current write, and + * failing that we look for a bucket that was last used by the same task. * * The ideas is if you've got multiple tasks pulling data into the cache at the * same time, you'll get better cache utilization if you try to segregate their * data and preserve locality. * - * For example, say you've starting Firefox at the same time you're copying a + * For example, dirty sectors of flash only volume is not reclaimable, if their + * dirty sectors mixed with dirty sectors of cached device, such buckets will + * be marked as dirty and won't be reclaimed, though the dirty data of cached + * device have been written back to backend device. + * + * And say you've starting Firefox at the same time you're copying a * bunch of files. Firefox will likely end up being fairly hot and stay in the * cache awhile, but the data you copied might not be; if you wrote all that * data to the same buckets it'd get invalidated at the same time. @@ -539,7 +545,10 @@ static struct open_bucket *pick_data_buc struct open_bucket *ret, *ret_task = NULL;
list_for_each_entry_reverse(ret, &c->data_buckets, list) - if (!bkey_cmp(&ret->key, search)) + if (UUID_FLASH_ONLY(&c->uuids[KEY_INODE(&ret->key)]) != + UUID_FLASH_ONLY(&c->uuids[KEY_INODE(search)])) + continue; + else if (!bkey_cmp(&ret->key, search)) goto found; else if (ret->last_write_point == write_point) ret_task = ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tang.junhui@zte.com.cn are
queue-3.18/bcache-segregate-flash-only-volume-write-streams.patch queue-3.18/bcache-stop-writeback-thread-after-detaching.patch