[PATCH 00/11] fix hungtask due to repeated traversal of inodes list

[yebin (H)]

Friendly ping...

On 2024/11/18 19:44, Ye Bin wrote:
> From: Ye Bin <yebin10 at huawei.com>
>
> As commit 04646aebd30b ("fs: avoid softlockups in s_inodes iterators")
> introduces the retry logic. In the problem environment, the 'i_count'
> of millions of files is not zero. As a result, the time slice for each
> traversal to the matching inode process is almost used up, and then the
> traversal is started from scratch. The worst-case scenario is that only
> one inode can be processed after each wakeup. Because this process holds
> a lock, other processes will be stuck for a long time, causing a series
> of problems.
> To solve the problem of repeated traversal from the beginning, each time
> the CPU needs to be freed, a cursor is inserted into the linked list, and
> the traversal continues from the cursor next time.
>
> Ye Bin (11):
>    fs: introduce I_CURSOR flag for inode
>    block: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    fs: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    gfs2: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    fs: use sb_for_each_inodes_safe API
>    fsnotify: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    quota: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    fs/super.c: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    landlock: use sb_for_each_inodes API
>    fs: fix hungtask due to repeated traversal of inodes list
>    fs: fix potential soft lockup when 'sb->s_inodes' has large number of
>      inodes
>
>   block/bdev.c           |  4 +--
>   fs/drop_caches.c       |  2 +-
>   fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c   |  2 +-
>   fs/inode.c             | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   fs/notify/fsnotify.c   |  2 +-
>   fs/quota/dquot.c       |  4 +--
>   fs/super.c             |  2 +-
>   include/linux/fs.h     | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   security/landlock/fs.c |  2 +-
>   9 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>