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Qu Wenruo authored
[BUG] There is a recent report that when memory pressure is high (including cached pages), btrfs can spend most of its time on memory allocation in btrfs_alloc_page_array() for compressed read/write. [CAUSE] For btrfs_alloc_page_array() we always go alloc_pages_bulk_array(), and even if the bulk allocation failed (fell back to single page allocation) we still retry but with extra memalloc_retry_wait(). If the bulk alloc only returned one page a time, we would spend a lot of time on the retry wait. The behavior was introduced in commit 395cb57e ("btrfs: wait between incomplete batch memory allocations"). [FIX] Although the commit mentioned that other filesystems do the wait, it's not the case at least nowadays. All the mainlined filesystems only call memalloc_retry_wait() if they failed to allocate any page (not only for bulk allocation). If there is any progress, they won't call memalloc_retry_wait() at all. For example, xfs_buf_alloc_pages() would only call memalloc_retry_wait() if there is no allocation progress at all, and the call is not for metadata readahead. So I don't believe we should call memalloc_retry_wait() unconditionally for short allocation. Call memalloc_retry_wait() if it fails to allocate any page for tree block allocation (which goes with __GFP_NOFAIL and may not need the special handling anyway), and reduce the latency for btrfs_alloc_page_array(). Reported-by: Julian Taylor <julian.taylor@1und1.de> Tested-by: Julian Taylor <julian.taylor@1und1.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8966c095-cbe7-4d22-9784-a647d1bf27c3@1und1.de/ Fixes: 395cb57e ("btrfs: wait between incomplete batch memory allocations") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1+ Reviewed-by: Sweet Tea Dorminy <sweettea-kernel@dorminy.me> Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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