Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: loop: avoiding too many pending per work I/O

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> wrote:
>> If there are too many pending per work I/O, too many
>> high priority work thread can be generated so that
>> system performance can be effected.
>>
>> This patch limits the max_active parameter of workqueue as 16.
>>
>> This patch fixes Fedora 22 live booting performance
>> regression when it is booted from squashfs over dm
>> based on loop, and looks the following reasons are
>> related with the problem:
>>
>> - not like other filesyststems(such as ext4), squashfs
>> is a bit special, and I observed that increasing I/O jobs
>> to access file in squashfs only improve I/O performance a
>> little, but it can make big difference for ext4
>>
>> - nested loop: both squashfs.img and ext3fs.img are mounted
>> as loop block, and ext3fs.img is inside the squashfs
>>
>> - during booting, lots of tasks may run concurrently
>>
>> Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca108001328aac0e8588edd15f1778
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.0)
>> Cc: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@fedoraproject.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
>
> Did we ever come to conclusion on this and patch 1/2 in the series?
> Fedora has them applied to it's 4.0.y based kernels to fix the
> performance regression we saw, and we're carrying them in rawhide as
> well.  I'm curious if these will go into 4.1 or if they're queued at
> all for 4.2?

I saw it queued in for-next branch of block tree, so it should be merged
to 4.2.

>
> josh
>
>> ---
>>  drivers/block/loop.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
>> index 3dc1598..1bee523 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
>> @@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ static int loop_set_fd(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
>>                 goto out_putf;
>>         error = -ENOMEM;
>>         lo->wq = alloc_workqueue("kloopd%d",
>> -                       WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_UNBOUND, 0,
>> +                       WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_HIGHPRI | WQ_UNBOUND, 16,
>>                         lo->lo_number);
>>         if (!lo->wq)
>>                 goto out_putf;
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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