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Darrick J. Wong b27ce0da60 xfs: use dontcache for grabbing inodes during scrub 
Back when I wrote commit a03297a0ca, I had thought that we'd be doing
users a favor by only marking inodes dontcache at the end of a scrub
operation, and only if there's only one reference to that inode.  This
was more or less true back when I_DONTCACHE was an XFS iflag and the
only thing it did was change the outcome of xfs_fs_drop_inode to 1.

Note: If there are dentries pointing to the inode when scrub finishes,
the inode will have positive i_count and stay around in cache until
dentry reclaim.

But now we have d_mark_dontcache, which cause the inode *and* the
dentries attached to it all to be marked I_DONTCACHE, which means that
we drop the dentries ASAP, which drops the inode ASAP.

This is bad if scrub found problems with the inode, because now they can
be scheduled for inactivation, which can cause inodegc to trip on it and
shut down the filesystem.

Even if the inode isn't bad, this is still suboptimal because phases 3-7
each initiate inode scans.  Dropping the inode immediately during phase
3 is silly because phase 5 will reload it and drop it immediately, etc.
It's fine to mark the inodes dontcache, but if there have been accesses
to the file that set up dentries, we should keep them.

I validated this by setting up ftrace to capture xfs_iget_recycle*
tracepoints and ran xfs/285 for 30 seconds.  With current djwong-wtf I
saw ~30,000 recycle events.  I then dropped the d_mark_dontcache calls
and set XFS_IGET_DONTCACHE, and the recycle events dropped to ~5,000 per
30 seconds.

Therefore, grab the inode with XFS_IGET_DONTCACHE, which only has the
effect of setting I_DONTCACHE for cache misses.  Remove the
d_mark_dontcache call that can happen in xchk_irele.

Fixes: a03297a0ca ("xfs: manage inode DONTCACHE status at irele time")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
History 2024-04-23 16:55:18 -07:00
arch Misc x86 fixes: 2024-04-14 10:48:51 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240412 2024-04-12 10:22:33 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation docs: describe xfs directory tree online fsck 2024-04-15 14:59:01 -07:00
drivers Fix a bug in the GIC irqchip driver. 2024-04-14 10:12:34 -07:00
fs xfs: use dontcache for grabbing inodes during scrub 2024-04-23 16:55:18 -07:00
include vfs: export remap and write check helpers 2024-04-15 14:54:13 -07:00
init fs/proc: Skip bootloader comment if no embedded kernel parameters 2024-04-09 23:36:18 +09:00
io_uring io_uring/net: restore msg_control on sendzc retry 2024-04-08 21:48:41 -06:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel Misc x86 fixes: 2024-04-14 10:48:51 -07:00
lib Including fixes from bluetooth. 2024-04-11 11:46:31 -07:00
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mm x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth. 2024-04-11 11:46:31 -07:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.9 2024-03-21 14:41:00 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts hardening fixes for v6.9-rc4 2024-04-10 13:31:34 -07:00
security security: Place security_path_post_mknod() where the original IMA call was 2024-04-03 10:21:32 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.9 2024-04-05 08:48:12 +02:00
tools Misc timer fixes: 2024-04-14 10:32:22 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9: 2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: change vmware.com addresses to broadcom.com 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS SoC fixes for 6.9 2024-04-12 13:02:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9-rc4 2024-04-14 13:38:39 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.