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msync occasionally takes several seconds (up to ~15 seconds) #12662
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After some more investigation, I've made a few changes to the initial issue. it definitely looks related to zfs since:
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Could try #12284 and see if it makes life any better. Could also try twiddling WBT off - there have been issues with huge amounts of IO contention eventually deadlocking with that, and I don't know whether the fix for that made it into stable. |
@rincebrain thanks! we're not using an SLOG on these machines, so it doesn't appear that #12284 would apply in our case. |
We've turned off WBT (with |
i've finally got a consistent repro: repro.working.zip It requires changing the kernel's dirty page writeback frequency to make it much more reproducible:
It appears that the delay occurs when both an application and the kernel are writing back the same dirty page. the relevant part of the code is: zfs/module/os/linux/zfs/zfs_vnops_os.c Line 3528 in 269b5da
The page stays stuck in the write back state until the transaction group containing that write closes. As a workaround, the zfs transaction group timeout can be reduced but it will cause more frequent writes to stable storage (set to 1 second below):
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…teback, do a commit to speed up its completion If we're doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE, add a small delay to make sure we catch any WB_SYNC_ALL waiters due to a race condition in filemap_write_and_wait_range() Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662
…teback, do a commit to speed up its completion If we're doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE, add a small delay to make sure we catch any WB_SYNC_ALL waiters due to a race condition in filemap_write_and_wait_range() Introduce a parameter named zfs_page_writeback_no_sync_delay_us to control the small delay. The default value is 0 since even without the artificial delay, the issue occurs much more rarely now. Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662
…teback, do a commit to speed up its completion If we're doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE, add a small delay to make sure we catch any WB_SYNC_ALL waiters due to a race condition in filemap_write_and_wait_range() Introduce a parameter named zfs_page_writeback_no_sync_delay_us to control the small delay. The default value is 0 since even without the artificial delay, the issue occurs much more rarely now. Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662
…teback, do a commit to speed up its completion If we're doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE, add a small delay to make sure we catch any WB_SYNC_ALL waiters due to a race condition in filemap_write_and_wait_range() Introduce a parameter named zfs_page_writeback_no_sync_delay_us to control the small delay. Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662
…teback, do a commit to speed up its completion Applies to kernel versions >= 4.10.0: If we're doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE, add a small delay to make sure we catch any WB_SYNC_ALL waiters due to a race condition in filemap_write_and_wait_range() Introduce a parameter named zfs_page_writeback_no_sync_delay_us to control the small delay. Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes #12662 Closes #12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes openzfs#12662 Closes openzfs#12790
Page writebacks with WB_SYNC_NONE can take several seconds to complete since they wait for the transaction group to close before being committed. This is usually not a problem since the caller does not need to wait. However, if we're simultaneously doing a writeback with WB_SYNC_ALL (e.g via msync), the latter can block for several seconds (up to zfs_txg_timeout) due to the active WB_SYNC_NONE writeback since it needs to wait for the transaction to complete and the PG_writeback bit to be cleared. This commit deals with 2 cases: - No page writeback is active. A WB_SYNC_ALL page writeback starts and even completes. But when it's about to check if the PG_writeback bit has been cleared, another writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE starts. The sync page writeback ends up waiting for the non-sync page writeback to complete. - A page writeback with WB_SYNC_NONE is already active when a WB_SYNC_ALL writeback starts. The WB_SYNC_ALL writeback ends up waiting for the WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. The fix works by carefully keeping track of active sync/non-sync writebacks and committing when beneficial. Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Shaan Nobee <sniper111@gmail.com> Closes #12662 Closes #12790
System information
Describe the problem you're observing
When running EventStoreDB (https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore) on a Google Cloud VM, we occasionally see writes taking several seconds in the logs (it happens 1-2 times per day with a constant write load):
In the above case, it took ~1.5 seconds to complete a write but sometimes it can be up to ~15 seconds.
After doing an strace, I've come to the conclusion that msync is the culprit. We have a small memory-mapped file (8 bytes large) which is updated and flushed very regularly (every ~2 milliseconds).
We don't seem to see the same problem on other cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) although they should be running in a similar environment.EDIT: The issue also seems to happen on AWS/AzureAfter doing an ftrace on msync (
__x64_sys_msync
) I've got the following output which shows that the delay is incurred inwait_on_page_writeback
:I've done an additional ftrace, but this time only on wait_on_page_bit() and I've got this output:
It looks like the kernel is waiting for ZFS to complete the page write to stable storage.
Describe how to reproduce the problem
SLOW QUEUE
messages after 1 day in the EventStoreDB logsI'm attempting a minimal repro with a C application which repeatedly flushes an 8-byte memory-mapped file and I've seen the issue happen once so it confirms that the issue is not with EventStoreDB (i'm trying to get the repro to work consistently).
Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the system logs
Nothing in the syslogs.
The machine is quite powerful as well and has plenty of free memory.
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