[Linux-cachefs] [PATCH v7 2/2] mm, netfs, fscache: Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache
Xiubo Li
xiubli at redhat.com
Thu Jun 29 10:39:58 AEST 2023
On 6/28/23 18:48, David Howells wrote:
> Fscache has an optimisation by which reads from the cache are skipped until
> we know that (a) there's data there to be read and (b) that data isn't
> entirely covered by pages resident in the netfs pagecache. This is done
> with two flags manipulated by fscache_note_page_release():
>
> if (...
> test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_HAVE_DATA, &cookie->flags) &&
> test_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags))
> clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &cookie->flags);
>
> where the NO_DATA_TO_READ flag causes cachefiles_prepare_read() to indicate
> that netfslib should download from the server or clear the page instead.
>
> The fscache_note_page_release() function is intended to be called from
> ->releasepage() - but that only gets called if PG_private or PG_private_2
> is set - and currently the former is at the discretion of the network
> filesystem and the latter is only set whilst a page is being written to the
> cache, so sometimes we miss clearing the optimisation.
>
> Fix this by following Willy's suggestion[1] and adding an address_space
> flag, AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, that causes filemap_release_folio() to always call
> ->release_folio() if it's set, even if PG_private or PG_private_2 aren't
> set.
>
> Note that this would require folio_test_private() and page_has_private() to
> become more complicated. To avoid that, in the places[*] where these are
> used to conditionalise calls to filemap_release_folio() and
> try_to_release_page(), the tests are removed the those functions just
> jumped to unconditionally and the test is performed there.
>
> [*] There are some exceptions in vmscan.c where the check guards more than
> just a call to the releaser. I've added a function, folio_needs_release()
> to wrap all the checks for that.
>
> AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS should be set if a non-NULL cookie is obtained from
> fscache and cleared in ->evict_inode() before truncate_inode_pages_final()
> is called.
>
> Additionally, the FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ flag needs to be cleared
> and the optimisation cancelled if a cachefiles object already contains data
> when we open it.
>
> Fixes: 1f67e6d0b188 ("fscache: Provide a function to note the release of a page")
> Fixes: 047487c947e8 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines")
> Reported-by: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft at gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> cc: Steve French <sfrench at samba.org>
> cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore at gmail.com>
> cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft at gmail.com>
> cc: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha at redhat.com>
> cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus at codewreck.org>
> cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov at gmail.com>
> cc: linux-cachefs at redhat.com
> cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
> cc: v9fs-developer at lists.sourceforge.net
> cc: ceph-devel at vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-nfs at vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> ---
>
> Notes:
> ver #7)
> - Make NFS set AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS.
>
> ver #4)
> - Split out merging of folio_has_private()/filemap_release_folio() call
> pairs into a preceding patch.
> - Don't need to clear AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS in ->evict_inode().
>
> ver #3)
> - Fixed mapping_clear_release_always() to use clear_bit() not set_bit().
> - Moved a '&&' to the correct line.
>
> ver #2)
> - Rewrote entirely according to Willy's suggestion[1].
>
> fs/9p/cache.c | 2 ++
> fs/afs/internal.h | 2 ++
> fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 2 ++
> fs/ceph/cache.c | 2 ++
> fs/nfs/fscache.c | 3 +++
> fs/smb/client/fscache.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/pagemap.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> mm/internal.h | 5 ++++-
> 8 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Just one question. Shouldn't do this in 'fs/erofs/fscache.c' too ?
>
> diff --git a/fs/9p/cache.c b/fs/9p/cache.c
> index cebba4eaa0b5..12c0ae29f185 100644
> --- a/fs/9p/cache.c
> +++ b/fs/9p/cache.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ void v9fs_cache_inode_get_cookie(struct inode *inode)
> &path, sizeof(path),
> &version, sizeof(version),
> i_size_read(&v9inode->netfs.inode));
> + if (v9inode->netfs.cache)
> + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping);
>
> p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_FSC, "inode %p get cookie %p\n",
> inode, v9fs_inode_cookie(v9inode));
> diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
> index 9d3d64921106..da73b97e19a9 100644
> --- a/fs/afs/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
> @@ -681,6 +681,8 @@ static inline void afs_vnode_set_cache(struct afs_vnode *vnode,
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_AFS_FSCACHE
> vnode->netfs.cache = cookie;
> + if (cookie)
> + mapping_set_release_always(vnode->netfs.inode.i_mapping);
If all the cookie need to do the same thing, then how about doing this
in 'fscache_acquire_cookie()' ?
Thanks
- Xiubo
> #endif
> }
>
> diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
> index d9d22d0ec38a..7bf7a5fcc045 100644
> --- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c
> @@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ static bool cachefiles_open_file(struct cachefiles_object *object,
> if (ret < 0)
> goto check_failed;
>
> + clear_bit(FSCACHE_COOKIE_NO_DATA_TO_READ, &object->cookie->flags);
> +
> object->file = file;
>
> /* Always update the atime on an object we've just looked up (this is
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/cache.c b/fs/ceph/cache.c
> index 177d8e8d73fe..de1dee46d3df 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/cache.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/cache.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ void ceph_fscache_register_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode)
> &ci->i_vino, sizeof(ci->i_vino),
> &ci->i_version, sizeof(ci->i_version),
> i_size_read(inode));
> + if (ci->netfs.cache)
> + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping);
> }
>
> void ceph_fscache_unregister_inode_cookie(struct ceph_inode_info *ci)
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/fscache.c b/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> index 8c35d88a84b1..b05717fe0d4e 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/fscache.c
> @@ -180,6 +180,9 @@ void nfs_fscache_init_inode(struct inode *inode)
> &auxdata, /* aux_data */
> sizeof(auxdata),
> i_size_read(inode));
> +
> + if (netfs_inode(inode)->cache)
> + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping);
> }
>
> /*
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fscache.c b/fs/smb/client/fscache.c
> index 8f6909d633da..3677525ee993 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/fscache.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/fscache.c
> @@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ void cifs_fscache_get_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode)
> &cifsi->uniqueid, sizeof(cifsi->uniqueid),
> &cd, sizeof(cd),
> i_size_read(&cifsi->netfs.inode));
> + if (cifsi->netfs.cache)
> + mapping_set_release_always(inode->i_mapping);
> }
>
> void cifs_fscache_unuse_inode_cookie(struct inode *inode, bool update)
> diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> index a56308a9d1a4..a1176ceb4a0c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ enum mapping_flags {
> /* writeback related tags are not used */
> AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS = 5,
> AS_LARGE_FOLIO_SUPPORT = 6,
> + AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, /* Call ->release_folio(), even if no private data */
> };
>
> /**
> @@ -269,6 +270,21 @@ static inline int mapping_use_writeback_tags(struct address_space *mapping)
> return !test_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags);
> }
>
> +static inline bool mapping_release_always(const struct address_space *mapping)
> +{
> + return test_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void mapping_set_release_always(struct address_space *mapping)
> +{
> + set_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void mapping_clear_release_always(struct address_space *mapping)
> +{
> + clear_bit(AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS, &mapping->flags);
> +}
> +
> static inline gfp_t mapping_gfp_mask(struct address_space * mapping)
> {
> return mapping->gfp_mask;
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index a76314764d8c..86aef26df905 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -175,7 +175,10 @@ static inline void set_page_refcounted(struct page *page)
> */
> static inline bool folio_needs_release(struct folio *folio)
> {
> - return folio_has_private(folio);
> + struct address_space *mapping = folio->mapping;
> +
> + return folio_has_private(folio) ||
> + (mapping && mapping_release_always(mapping));
> }
>
> extern unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn;
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