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Zheng Liu committed 2ef9ccbfcb9
bcache: fix a livelock when we cause a huge number of cache misses
Subject : [PATCH v2] bcache: fix a livelock in btree lock
Date : Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:32:09 +0800 (02/25/2015 04:32:09 AM)
This commit tries to fix a livelock in bcache. This livelock might
happen when we causes a huge number of cache misses simultaneously.
When we get a cache miss, bcache will execute the following path.
->cached_dev_make_request()
->cached_dev_read()
->cached_lookup()
->bch->btree_map_keys()
->btree_root() <------------------------
->bch_btree_map_keys_recurse() |
->cache_lookup_fn() |
->cached_dev_cache_miss() |
->bch_btree_insert_check_key() -|
[If btree->seq is not equal to seq + 1, we should return
EINTR and traverse btree again.]
In bch_btree_insert_check_key() function we first need to check upgrade
flag (op->lock == -1), and when this flag is true we need to release
read btree->lock and try to take write btree->lock. During taking and
releasing this write lock, btree->seq will be monotone increased in
order to prevent other threads modify this in cache miss (see btree.h:74).
But if there are some cache misses caused by some requested, we could
meet a livelock because btree->seq is always changed by others. Thus no
one can make progress.
This commit will try to take write btree->lock if it encounters a race
when we traverse btree. Although it sacrifice the scalability but we
can ensure that only one can modify the btree.
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Tested-by: Joshua Schmid <jschmid@suse.com>
Tested-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: Joshua Schmid <jschmid@suse.com>
Cc: Zhu Yanhai <zhu.yanhai@gmail.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>