回复:[RFC PATCH V6 0/7] implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs

[Chengguang Xu]

 ---- 在 星期一, 2021-11-22 11:00:31 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 撰写 ----
 > From: Chengguang Xu <charliecgxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
 > 
 > Current syncfs(2) syscall on overlayfs just calls sync_filesystem()
 > on upper_sb to synchronize whole dirty inodes in upper filesystem
 > regardless of the overlay ownership of the inode. In the use case of
 > container, when multiple containers using the same underlying upper
 > filesystem, it has some shortcomings as below.
 > 
 > (1) Performance
 > Synchronization is probably heavy because it actually syncs unnecessary
 > inodes for target overlayfs.
 > 
 > (2) Interference
 > Unplanned synchronization will probably impact IO performance of
 > unrelated container processes on the other overlayfs.
 > 
 > This series try to implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs so that
 > only sync target dirty upper inodes which are belong to specific overlayfs
 > instance. By doing this, it is able to reduce cost of synchronization and 
 > will not seriously impact IO performance of unrelated processes.
 > 
 > v1->v2:
 > - Mark overlayfs' inode dirty itself instead of adding notification
 > mechanism to vfs inode.
 > 
 > v2->v3:
 > - Introduce overlayfs' extra syncfs wait list to wait target upper inodes
 > in ->sync_fs.
 > 
 > v3->v4:
 > - Using wait_sb_inodes() to wait syncing upper inodes.
 > - Mark overlay inode dirty only when having upper inode and VM_SHARED
 > flag in ovl_mmap().
 > - Check upper i_state after checking upper mmap state
 > in ovl_write_inode.
 > 
 > v4->v5:
 > - Add underlying inode dirtiness check after mnt_drop_write().
 > - Handle both wait/no-wait mode of syncfs(2) in overlayfs' ->sync_fs().
 > 
 > v5->v6:
 > - Rebase to latest overlayfs-next tree.
 > - Mark oerlay inode dirty when it has upper instead of marking dirty on
 >   modification.
 > - Trigger dirty page writeback in overlayfs' ->write_inode().
 > - Mark overlay inode 'DONTCACHE' flag.
 > - Delete overlayfs' ->writepages() and ->evict_inode() operations.


Hi Miklos,

Have you got time to have a look at this V6 series? I think this version has already fixed
the issues in previous feedbacks of you guys and passed fstests (generic/overlay cases).

I did some stress long time tests (tar & syncfs & diff on w/wo copy-up) and found no obvious problem.
For syncfs time with 1M clean upper inodes, there was extra 1.3s wasted on waiting scheduling.
I guess this 1.3s will not bring significant impact to container instance in most cases, I also
agree with Jack that we can start with this approach and do some improvements afterwards if there is
complain from any real users.



Thanks,
Chengguang


 > 
 > Chengguang Xu (7):
 >   ovl: setup overlayfs' private bdi
 >   ovl: mark overlayfs inode dirty when it has upper
 >   ovl: implement overlayfs' own ->write_inode operation
 >   ovl: set 'DONTCACHE' flag for overlayfs inode
 >   fs: export wait_sb_inodes()
 >   ovl: introduce ovl_sync_upper_blockdev()
 >   ovl: implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs
 > 
 >  fs/fs-writeback.c         |  3 ++-
 >  fs/overlayfs/inode.c      |  5 +++-
 >  fs/overlayfs/super.c      | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 >  fs/overlayfs/util.c       |  1 +
 >  include/linux/writeback.h |  1 +
 >  5 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 > 
 > -- 
 > 2.27.0
 > 
 >