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    writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock · f758eeab
    Christoph Hellwig authored
    Split the global inode_wb_list_lock into a per-bdi_writeback list_lock,
    as it's currently the most contended lock in the system for metadata
    heavy workloads.  It won't help for single-filesystem workloads for
    which we'll need the I/O-less balance_dirty_pages, but at least we
    can dedicate a cpu to spinning on each bdi now for larger systems.
    
    Based on earlier patches from Nick Piggin and Dave Chinner.
    
    It reduces lock contentions to 1/4 in this test case:
    10 HDD JBOD, 100 dd on each disk, XFS, 6GB ram
    
    lock_stat version 0.3
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                  class name    con-bounces    contentions   waittime-min   waittime-max waittime-total    acq-bounces   acquisitions   holdtime-min   holdtime-max holdtime-total
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    vanilla 2.6.39-rc3:
                          inode_wb_list_lock:         42590          44433           0.12         147.74      144127.35         252274         886792           0.08         121.34      917211.23
                          ------------------
                          inode_wb_list_lock              2          [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
                          inode_wb_list_lock             34          [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
                          inode_wb_list_lock          12893          [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
                          inode_wb_list_lock          10702          [<ffffffff8115afef>] writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x20a
                          ------------------
                          inode_wb_list_lock              2          [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85
                          inode_wb_list_lock             19          [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49
                          inode_wb_list_lock           5550          [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0
                          inode_wb_list_lock           8511          [<ffffffff8115b4ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157
    
    2.6.39-rc3 + patch:
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock:         11383          11657           0.14         151.69       40429.51          90825         527918           0.11         145.90      556843.37
                    ------------------------
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock             10          [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock           1493          [<ffffffff8115b1ed>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3d/0x150
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock           3652          [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock           1412          [<ffffffff8115a38e>] writeback_single_inode+0x17f/0x223
                    ------------------------
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock              3          [<ffffffff8110b5af>] bdi_lock_two+0x46/0x4b
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock              6          [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock           2061          [<ffffffff8115af97>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf
                    &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock           2629          [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f
    
    hughd@google.com: fix recursive lock when bdi_lock_two() is called with new the same as old
    akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup bdev_inode_switch_bdi() comment
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    f758eeab
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