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authorJinke Han <hanjinke.666@bytedance.com>2022-09-03 09:24:29 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-10-26 12:34:29 +0200
commitd12471b41674eb5f8b91a8b987dbe4e5ba1cb9d0 (patch)
treeac98a651742920675f20eec35df015599acf47a5 /fs
parent46e5f470a144da7e5e4166eaada8c2d351669a80 (diff)
ext4: place buffer head allocation before handle start
commit d1052d236eddf6aa851434db1897b942e8db9921 upstream. In our product environment, we encounter some jbd hung waiting handles to stop while several writters were doing memory reclaim for buffer head allocation in delay alloc write path. Ext4 do buffer head allocation with holding transaction handle which may be blocked too long if the reclaim works not so smooth. According to our bcc trace, the reclaim time in buffer head allocation can reach 258s and the jbd transaction commit also take almost the same time meanwhile. Except for these extreme cases, we often see several seconds delays for cgroup memory reclaim on our servers. This is more likely to happen considering docker environment. One thing to note, the allocation of buffer heads is as often as page allocation or more often when blocksize less than page size. Just like page cache allocation, we should also place the buffer head allocation before startting the handle. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jinke Han <hanjinke.666@bytedance.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220903012429.22555-1-hanjinke.666@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/inode.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 4118b720b676..bdadbe57ea80 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1177,6 +1177,13 @@ retry_grab:
page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
if (!page)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /*
+ * The same as page allocation, we prealloc buffer heads before
+ * starting the handle.
+ */
+ if (!page_has_buffers(page))
+ create_empty_buffers(page, inode->i_sb->s_blocksize, 0);
+
unlock_page(page);
retry_journal: