414043e88d
Add a new private thread flag to indicate that the thread should not sleep if runningbufspace is too large. Set this flag on the bufdaemon and syncer threads so that they skip the waitrunningbufspace() call in bufwrite() rather than than checking the proc pointer vs. the known proc pointers for these two threads. A way of preventing these threads from being starved for I/O but still placing limits on their outstanding I/O would be desirable. Set this flag in ffs_copyonwrite() to prevent bufwrite() calls from blocking on the runningbufspace check while holding snaplk. This prevents snaplk from being held for an arbitrarily long period of time if runningbufspace is high and greatly reduces the contention for snaplk. The disadvantage is that ffs_copyonwrite() can start a large amount of I/O if there are a large number of snapshots, which could cause a deadlock in other parts of the code. Call runningbufwakeup() in ffs_copyonwrite() to decrement runningbufspace before attempting to grab snaplk so that I/O requests waiting on snaplk are not counted in runningbufspace as being in-progress. Increment runningbufspace again before actually launching the original I/O request. Prior to the above two changes, the system could deadlock if enough I/O requests were blocked by snaplk to prevent runningbufspace from falling below lorunningspace and one of the bawrite() calls in ffs_copyonwrite() blocked in waitrunningbufspace() while holding snaplk. See <http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons143.html> |
||
---|---|---|
.. | ||
ffs_alloc.c | ||
ffs_balloc.c | ||
ffs_extern.h | ||
ffs_inode.c | ||
ffs_rawread.c | ||
ffs_snapshot.c | ||
ffs_softdep.c | ||
ffs_subr.c | ||
ffs_tables.c | ||
ffs_vfsops.c | ||
ffs_vnops.c | ||
fs.h | ||
README.snapshot | ||
README.softupdates | ||
softdep.h |
$FreeBSD$ Using Soft Updates To enable the soft updates feature in your kernel, add option SOFTUPDATES to your kernel configuration. Once you are running a kernel with soft update support, you need to enable it for whichever filesystems you wish to run with the soft update policy. This is done with the -n option to tunefs(8) on the UNMOUNTED filesystems, e.g. from single-user mode you'd do something like: tunefs -n enable /usr To permanently enable soft updates on the /usr filesystem (or at least until a corresponding ``tunefs -n disable'' is done). Soft Updates Copyright Restrictions As of June 2000 the restrictive copyright has been removed and replaced with a `Berkeley-style' copyright. The files implementing soft updates now reside in the sys/ufs/ffs directory and are compiled into the generic kernel by default. Soft Updates Status The soft updates code has been running in production on many systems for the past two years generally quite successfully. The two current sets of shortcomings are: 1) On filesystems that are chronically full, the two minute lag from the time a file is deleted until its free space shows up will result in premature filesystem full failures. This failure mode is most evident in small filesystems such as the root. For this reason, use of soft updates is not recommended on the root filesystem. 2) If your system routines runs parallel processes each of which remove many files, the kernel memory rate limiting code may not be able to slow removal operations to a level sustainable by the disk subsystem. The result is that the kernel runs out of memory and hangs. Both of these problems are being addressed, but have not yet been resolved. There are no other known problems at this time. How Soft Updates Work For more general information on soft updates, please see: http://www.mckusick.com/softdep/ http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/ -- Marshall Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> July 2000