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| author | Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> | 2010-07-07 13:24:07 +1000 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-08-07 18:24:25 +0200 |
| commit | 028c2dd184c097809986684f2f0627eea5529fea (patch) | |
| tree | f6eb9e30a24d73597e5ce2a65b4638e9d1947504 | |
| parent | 455b2864686d3591b3b2f39eb46290c95f76471f (diff) | |
| download | linux-028c2dd184c0.tar.gz | |
writeback: Add tracing to balance_dirty_pages
Tracing high level background writeback events is good, but it doesn't
give the entire picture. Add visibility into write throttling to catch IO
dispatched by foreground throttling of processing dirtying lots of pages.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/fs-writeback.c | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/trace/events/writeback.h | 64 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 4 |
3 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 73acab4dc2b7aa..bf10cbf379dd01 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -656,10 +656,14 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, wbc.more_io = 0; wbc.nr_to_write = MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES; wbc.pages_skipped = 0; + + trace_wbc_writeback_start(&wbc, wb->bdi); if (work->sb) __writeback_inodes_sb(work->sb, wb, &wbc); else writeback_inodes_wb(wb, &wbc); + trace_wbc_writeback_written(&wbc, wb->bdi); + work->nr_pages -= MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write; wrote += MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES - wbc.nr_to_write; @@ -687,6 +691,7 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, if (!list_empty(&wb->b_more_io)) { inode = list_entry(wb->b_more_io.prev, struct inode, i_list); + trace_wbc_writeback_wait(&wbc, wb->bdi); inode_wait_for_writeback(inode); } spin_unlock(&inode_lock); diff --git a/include/trace/events/writeback.h b/include/trace/events/writeback.h index 562fcae10d9d65..0be26acae064c7 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/writeback.h +++ b/include/trace/events/writeback.h @@ -85,6 +85,70 @@ DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_bdi_unregister); DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_thread_start); DEFINE_WRITEBACK_EVENT(writeback_thread_stop); +DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(wbc_class, + TP_PROTO(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct backing_dev_info *bdi), + TP_ARGS(wbc, bdi), + TP_STRUCT__entry( + __array(char, name, 32) + __field(long, nr_to_write) + __field(long, pages_skipped) + __field(int, sync_mode) + __field(int, nonblocking) + __field(int, encountered_congestion) + __field(int, for_kupdate) + __field(int, for_background) + __field(int, for_reclaim) + __field(int, range_cyclic) + __field(int, more_io) + __field(unsigned long, older_than_this) + __field(long, range_start) + __field(long, range_end) + ), + + TP_fast_assign( + strncpy(__entry->name, dev_name(bdi->dev), 32); + __entry->nr_to_write = wbc->nr_to_write; + __entry->pages_skipped = wbc->pages_skipped; + __entry->sync_mode = wbc->sync_mode; + __entry->for_kupdate = wbc->for_kupdate; + __entry->for_background = wbc->for_background; + __entry->for_reclaim = wbc->for_reclaim; + __entry->range_cyclic = wbc->range_cyclic; + __entry->more_io = wbc->more_io; + __entry->older_than_this = wbc->older_than_this ? + *wbc->older_than_this : 0; + __entry->range_start = (long)wbc->range_start; + __entry->range_end = (long)wbc->range_end; + ), + + TP_printk("bdi %s: towrt=%ld skip=%ld mode=%d kupd=%d " + "bgrd=%d reclm=%d cyclic=%d more=%d older=0x%lx " + "start=0x%lx end=0x%lx", + __entry->name, + __entry->nr_to_write, + __entry->pages_skipped, + __entry->sync_mode, + __entry->for_kupdate, + __entry->for_background, + __entry->for_reclaim, + __entry->range_cyclic, + __entry->more_io, + __entry->older_than_this, + __entry->range_start, + __entry->range_end) +) + +#define DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(name) \ +DEFINE_EVENT(wbc_class, name, \ + TP_PROTO(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct backing_dev_info *bdi), \ + TP_ARGS(wbc, bdi)) +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_writeback_start); +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_writeback_written); +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_writeback_wait); +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_balance_dirty_start); +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_balance_dirty_written); +DEFINE_WBC_EVENT(wbc_balance_dirty_wait); + #endif /* _TRACE_WRITEBACK_H */ /* This part must be outside protection */ diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 37498ef6154836..d556cd829af66a 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #include <linux/syscalls.h> #include <linux/buffer_head.h> #include <linux/pagevec.h> +#include <trace/events/writeback.h> /* * After a CPU has dirtied this many pages, balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited @@ -535,11 +536,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, * threshold otherwise wait until the disk writes catch * up. */ + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_start(&wbc, bdi); if (bdi_nr_reclaimable > bdi_thresh) { writeback_inodes_wb(&bdi->wb, &wbc); pages_written += write_chunk - wbc.nr_to_write; get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, &bdi_thresh, bdi); + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_written(&wbc, bdi); } /* @@ -565,6 +568,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, if (pages_written >= write_chunk) break; /* We've done our duty */ + trace_wbc_balance_dirty_wait(&wbc, bdi); __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); io_schedule_timeout(pause); |