On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 09:15:01AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com
[ Upstream commit 77d20c685b6baeb942606a93ed861c191381b73e ]
Internally I got a report of very long stalls on normal operations like creating a new file when auto relocation was running. The reporter used the 'bpf offcputime' tracer to show that we would get stuck in start_transaction for 5 to 30 seconds, and were always being woken up by the transaction commit.
Using my timing-everything script, which times how long a function takes and what percentage of that total time is taken up by its children, I saw several traces like this
1083 took 32812902424 ns 29929002926 ns 91.2110% wait_for_commit_duration 25568 ns 7.7920e-05% commit_fs_roots_duration 1007751 ns 0.00307% commit_cowonly_roots_duration 446855602 ns 1.36182% btrfs_run_delayed_refs_duration 271980 ns 0.00082% btrfs_run_delayed_items_duration 2008 ns 6.1195e-06% btrfs_apply_pending_changes_duration 9656 ns 2.9427e-05% switch_commit_roots_duration 1598 ns 4.8700e-06% btrfs_commit_device_sizes_duration 4314 ns 1.3147e-05% btrfs_free_log_root_tree_duration
Here I was only tracing functions that happen where we are between START_COMMIT and UNBLOCKED in order to see what would be keeping us blocked for so long. The wait_for_commit() we do is where we wait for a previous transaction that hasn't completed it's commit. This can include all of the unpin work and other cleanups, which tends to be the longest part of our transaction commit.
There is no reason we should be blocking new things from entering the transaction at this point, it just adds to random latency spikes for no reason.
Fix this by adding a PREP stage. This allows us to properly deal with multiple committers coming in at the same time, we retain the behavior that the winner waits on the previous transaction and the losers all wait for this transaction commit to occur. Nothing else is blocked during the PREP stage, and then once the wait is complete we switch to COMMIT_START and all of the same behavior as before is maintained.
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana fdmanana@suse.com Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik josef@toxicpanda.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: David Sterba dsterba@suse.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org
Please postpone adding this patch to stable trees until 6.6 is released. Thanks.