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When a filesystem is mounted from a loop device, writes are throttled by balance_dirty_pages() twice: once when writing to the filesystem and once when the loop_handle_cmd() writes to the backing file. This double-throttling can trigger positive feedback loops that create significant delays. The throttling at the lower level is seen by the upper level as a slow device, so it throttles extra hard. The PF_LESS_THROTTLE flag was created to handle exactly this circumstance, though with an NFS filesystem mounted from a local NFS server. It reduces the throttling on the lower layer so that it can proceed largely unthrottled. To demonstrate this, create a filesystem on a loop device and write (e.g. with dd) several large files which combine to consume significantly more than the limit set by /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio or dirty_bytes. Measure the total time taken. When I do this directly on a device (no loop device) the total time for several runs (mkfs, mount, write 200 files, umount) is fairly stable: 28-35 seconds. When I do this over a loop device the times are much worse and less stable. 52-460 seconds. Half below 100seconds, half above. When I apply this patch, the times become stable again, though not as fast as the no-loop-back case: 53-72 seconds. There may be room for further improvement as the total overhead still seems too high, but this is a big improvement. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> |
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| mtip32xx | ||
| paride | ||
| rsxx | ||
| xen-blkback | ||
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| amiflop.c | ||
| ataflop.c | ||
| brd.c | ||
| cciss_cmd.h | ||
| cciss_scsi.c | ||
| cciss_scsi.h | ||
| cciss.c | ||
| cciss.h | ||
| cryptoloop.c | ||
| DAC960.c | ||
| DAC960.h | ||
| floppy.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| loop.c | ||
| loop.h | ||
| Makefile | ||
| nbd.c | ||
| null_blk.c | ||
| pktcdvd.c | ||
| ps3disk.c | ||
| ps3vram.c | ||
| rbd_types.h | ||
| rbd.c | ||
| skd_main.c | ||
| skd_s1120.h | ||
| smart1,2.h | ||
| sunvdc.c | ||
| swim3.c | ||
| swim_asm.S | ||
| swim.c | ||
| sx8.c | ||
| umem.c | ||
| umem.h | ||
| virtio_blk.c | ||
| xen-blkfront.c | ||
| xsysace.c | ||
| z2ram.c | ||