xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue

All of the work xfssyncd does is background functionality. There is
no need for a thread per filesystem to do this work - it can al be
managed by a global workqueue now they manage concurrency
effectively.

Introduce a new gglobal xfssyncd workqueue, and convert the periodic
work to use this new functionality. To do this, use a delayed work
construct to schedule the next running of the periodic sync work
for the filesystem. When the sync work is complete, queue a new
delayed work for the next running of the sync work.

For laptop mode, we wait on completion for the sync works, so ensure
that the sync work queuing interface can flush and wait for work to
complete to enable the work queue infrastructure to replace the
current sequence number and wakeup that is used.

Because the sync work does non-trivial amounts of work, mark the
new work queue as CPU intensive.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 1ba5c451da36..c71b6ed45e41 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -1191,22 +1191,12 @@ xfs_fs_sync_fs(
 		return -error;
 
 	if (laptop_mode) {
-		int	prev_sync_seq = mp->m_sync_seq;
-
 		/*
 		 * The disk must be active because we're syncing.
 		 * We schedule xfssyncd now (now that the disk is
 		 * active) instead of later (when it might not be).
 		 */
-		wake_up_process(mp->m_sync_task);
-		/*
-		 * We have to wait for the sync iteration to complete.
-		 * If we don't, the disk activity caused by the sync
-		 * will come after the sync is completed, and that
-		 * triggers another sync from laptop mode.
-		 */
-		wait_event(mp->m_wait_single_sync_task,
-				mp->m_sync_seq != prev_sync_seq);
+		flush_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_sync_work);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1492,7 +1482,6 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 	atomic_set(&mp->m_active_trans, 0);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mp->m_sync_list);
 	spin_lock_init(&mp->m_sync_lock);
-	init_waitqueue_head(&mp->m_wait_single_sync_task);
 
 	mp->m_super = sb;
 	sb->s_fs_info = mp;
@@ -1833,13 +1822,27 @@ init_xfs_fs(void)
 	if (error)
 		goto out_cleanup_procfs;
 
+	/*
+	 * max_active is set to 8 to give enough concurency to allow
+	 * multiple work operations on each CPU to run. This allows multiple
+	 * filesystems to be running sync work concurrently, and scales with
+	 * the number of CPUs in the system.
+	 */
+	xfs_syncd_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfssyncd", WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE, 8);
+	if (!xfs_syncd_wq) {
+		error = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out_sysctl_unregister;
+	}
+
 	vfs_initquota();
 
 	error = register_filesystem(&xfs_fs_type);
 	if (error)
-		goto out_sysctl_unregister;
+		goto out_destroy_xfs_syncd;
 	return 0;
 
+ out_destroy_xfs_syncd:
+	destroy_workqueue(xfs_syncd_wq);
  out_sysctl_unregister:
 	xfs_sysctl_unregister();
  out_cleanup_procfs:
@@ -1861,6 +1864,7 @@ exit_xfs_fs(void)
 {
 	vfs_exitquota();
 	unregister_filesystem(&xfs_fs_type);
+	destroy_workqueue(xfs_syncd_wq);
 	xfs_sysctl_unregister();
 	xfs_cleanup_procfs();
 	xfs_buf_terminate();