xfs: re-enable xfsaild idle mode and fix associated races
xfsaild idle mode logic currently leads to a couple hangs:
1.) If xfsaild is rescheduled in during an incremental scan
(i.e., tout != 0) and the target has been updated since
the previous run, we can hit the new target and go into
idle mode with a still populated ail.
2.) A wake up is only issued when the target is pushed forward.
The wake up can race with xfsaild if it is currently in the
process of entering idle mode, causing future wake up
events to be lost.
These hangs have been reproduced and verified as fixed by
running xfstests 273 in a loop on a slightly modified upstream
kernel. The kernel is modified to re-enable idle mode as
previously implemented (when count == 0) and with a revert of
commit 670ce93f, which includes performance improvements that
make this harder to reproduce.
The solution, the algorithm for which has been outlined by
Dave Chinner, is to modify xfsaild to enter idle mode only when
the ail is empty and the push target has not been moved forward
since the last push.
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
index fb62377..53b7c9b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
struct task_struct *xa_task;
struct list_head xa_ail;
xfs_lsn_t xa_target;
+ xfs_lsn_t xa_target_prev;
struct list_head xa_cursors;
spinlock_t xa_lock;
xfs_lsn_t xa_last_pushed_lsn;