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Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes to the nearest living ancestor wb. It helps to get rid of per-cgroup writeback structures themselves and of pinned memory and block cgroups, which are significantly larger structures (mostly due to large per-cpu statistics data). This prevents memory waste and helps to avoid different scalability problems caused by large piles of dying cgroups. Reuse the existing mechanism of inode switching used for foreign inode detection. To speed things up batch up to 115 inode switching in a single operation (the maximum number is selected so that the resulting struct inode_switch_wbs_context can fit into 1024 bytes). Because every switching consists of two steps divided by an RCU grace period, it would be too slow without batching. Please note that the whole batch counts as a single operation (when increasing/decreasing isw_nr_in_flight). This allows to keep umounting working (flush the switching queue), however prevents cleanups from consuming the whole switching quota and effectively blocking the frn switching. A cgwb cleanup operation can fail due to different reasons (e.g. not enough memory, the cgwb has an in-flight/pending io, an attached inode in a wrong state, etc). In this case the next scheduled cleanup will make a new attempt. An attempt is made each time a new cgwb is offlined (in other words a memcg and/or a blkcg is deleted by a user). In the future an additional attempt scheduled by a timer can be implemented. [guro@fb.com: replace open-coded "115" with arithmetic] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMEcSBcq/VXMiPPO@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com [guro@fb.com: add smp_mb() to inode_prepare_wbs_switch()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMFa+guFw7OFjf3X@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com [willy@infradead.org: fix documentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210615200242.1716568-2-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-9-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.