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(10.178.33.69) by 156.147.1.127 with ESMTP; 22 Jul 2014 14:21:00 +0900 X-Original-SENDERIP: 10.178.33.69 X-Original-MAILFROM: gioh.kim@lge.com Message-ID: <53CDF4BB.5060109@lge.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:20:59 +0900 From: Gioh Kim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro , Andrew Morton , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@infradead.org, Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fs/buffer.c: allocate buffer cache from non-movable area Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org A buffer cache is allocated from movable area because it is referred for a while and released soon. But some filesystems are taking buffer cache for a long time and it can disturb page migration. A new API should be introduced to allocate buffer cache from non-movable area. Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim --- fs/buffer.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 8f05111..8c7ed02 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -993,7 +993,7 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct block_device *bdev, */ static int grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, - pgoff_t index, int size, int sizebits) + pgoff_t index, int size, int sizebits, gfp_t movable_mask) { struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode; struct page *page; @@ -1003,7 +1003,8 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, gfp_t gfp_mask; gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS; - gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE; + if (movable_mask & __GFP_MOVABLE) + gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE; /* * XXX: __getblk_slow() can not really deal with failure and * will endlessly loop on improvised global reclaim. Prefer @@ -1058,7 +1059,8 @@ failed: * that page was dirty, the buffers are set dirty also. */ static int -grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) +grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, + int size, gfp_t movable_mask) { pgoff_t index; int sizebits; @@ -1085,11 +1087,12 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) } /* Create a page with the proper size buffers.. */ - return grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size, sizebits); + return grow_dev_page(bdev, block, index, size, sizebits, movable_mask); } static struct buffer_head * -__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) +__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, + int size, gfp_t movable_mask) { /* Size must be multiple of hard sectorsize */ if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)-1) || @@ -1111,7 +1114,7 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size) if (bh) return bh; - ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size); + ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size, movable_mask); if (ret < 0) return NULL; if (ret == 0) @@ -1385,7 +1388,7 @@ __getblk(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) might_sleep(); if (bh == NULL) - bh = __getblk_slow(bdev, block, size); + bh = __getblk_slow(bdev, block, size, __GFP_MOVABLE); return bh; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__getblk); @@ -1410,6 +1413,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__breadahead); * @size: size (in bytes) to read * * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. + * The page cache is allocated from movable area. * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable. */ struct buffer_head * @@ -1423,6 +1427,27 @@ __bread(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bread); +/** + * __bread_nonmovable() - reads a specified block and returns the bh + * @bdev: the block_device to read from + * @block: number of block + * @size: size (in bytes) to read + * + * Reads a specified block, and returns buffer head that contains it. + * The page cache is allocated from non-movable area. + * It returns NULL if the block was unreadable. + */ +struct buffer_head * +__bread_nonmovable(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, unsigned size) +{ + struct buffer_head *bh = __getblk_slow(bdev, block, size, 0); + + if (likely(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) + bh = __bread_slow(bh); + return bh; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bread_nonmovable); + /* * invalidate_bh_lrus() is called rarely - but not only at unmount. * This doesn't race because it runs in each cpu either in irq diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h index 324329c..cf8def2 100644 --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h +++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ void __brelse(struct buffer_head *); void __bforget(struct buffer_head *); void __breadahead(struct block_device *, sector_t block, unsigned int size); struct buffer_head *__bread(struct block_device *, sector_t block, unsigned size); +struct buffer_head *__bread_nonmovable(struct block_device *, + sector_t block, unsigned size); void invalidate_bh_lrus(void); struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags); void free_buffer_head(struct buffer_head * bh); @@ -298,6 +300,12 @@ sb_bread(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block) return __bread(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize); } +static inline struct buffer_head * +sb_bread_nonmovable(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block) +{ + return __bread_nonmovable(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize); +} + static inline void sb_breadahead(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block) {