xfs: introduce an allocation workqueue

We currently have significant issues with the amount of stack that
allocation in XFS uses, especially in the writeback path. We can
easily consume 4k of stack between mapping the page, manipulating
the bmap btree and allocating blocks from the free list. Not to
mention btree block readahead and other functionality that issues IO
in the allocation path.

As a result, we can no longer fit allocation in the writeback path
in the stack space provided on x86_64. To alleviate this problem,
introduce an allocation workqueue and move all allocations to a
seperate context. This can be easily added as an interposing layer
into xfs_alloc_vextent(), which takes a single argument structure
and does not return until the allocation is complete or has failed.

To do this, add a work structure and a completion to the allocation
args structure. This allows xfs_alloc_vextent to queue the args onto
the workqueue and wait for it to be completed by the worker. This
can be done completely transparently to the caller.

The worker function needs to ensure that it sets and clears the
PF_TRANS flag appropriately as it is being run in an active
transaction context. Work can also be queued in a memory reclaim
context, so a rescuer is needed for the workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
index ce84ffd0264..31e90335b83 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #include "xfs_error.h"
 #include "xfs_trace.h"
 
+struct workqueue_struct *xfs_alloc_wq;
 
 #define XFS_ABSDIFF(a,b)	(((a) <= (b)) ? ((b) - (a)) : ((a) - (b)))
 
@@ -2207,7 +2208,7 @@ xfs_alloc_read_agf(
  * group or loop over the allocation groups to find the result.
  */
 int				/* error */
-xfs_alloc_vextent(
+__xfs_alloc_vextent(
 	xfs_alloc_arg_t	*args)	/* allocation argument structure */
 {
 	xfs_agblock_t	agsize;	/* allocation group size */
@@ -2417,6 +2418,37 @@ error0:
 	return error;
 }
 
+static void
+xfs_alloc_vextent_worker(
+	struct work_struct	*work)
+{
+	struct xfs_alloc_arg	*args = container_of(work,
+						struct xfs_alloc_arg, work);
+	unsigned long		pflags;
+
+	/* we are in a transaction context here */
+	current_set_flags_nested(&pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
+
+	args->result = __xfs_alloc_vextent(args);
+	complete(args->done);
+
+	current_restore_flags_nested(&pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
+}
+
+
+int				/* error */
+xfs_alloc_vextent(
+	xfs_alloc_arg_t	*args)	/* allocation argument structure */
+{
+	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
+
+	args->done = &done;
+	INIT_WORK(&args->work, xfs_alloc_vextent_worker);
+	queue_work(xfs_alloc_wq, &args->work);
+	wait_for_completion(&done);
+	return args->result;
+}
+
 /*
  * Free an extent.
  * Just break up the extent address and hand off to xfs_free_ag_extent