[PATCH 04/12] blkcg: make blkcg_gq's hierarchical

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 20:04:23 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:41:17PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Currently a child blkg (blkcg_gq) can be created even if its parent
> doesn't exist.  ie. Given a blkg, it's not guaranteed that its
> ancestors will exist.  This makes it difficult to implement proper
> hierarchy support for blkcg policies.
> 
> Always create blkgs recursively and make a child blkg hold a reference
> to its parent.  blkg->parent is added so that finding the parent is
> easy.  blkcg_parent() is also added in the process.
> 
> This change can be visible to userland.  e.g. while issuing IO in a
> nested cgroup didn't affect the ancestors at all, now it will
> initialize all ancestor blkgs and zero stats for the request_queue
> will always appear on them.  While this is userland visible, this
> shouldn't cause any functional difference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Vivek

> ---
>  block/blk-cgroup.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  block/blk-cgroup.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> index fde2286..c858628 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
> @@ -201,7 +201,16 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
>  	}
>  	blkg = new_blkg;
>  
> -	/* insert */
> +	/* link parent and insert */
> +	if (blkcg_parent(blkcg)) {
> +		blkg->parent = __blkg_lookup(blkcg_parent(blkcg), q, false);
> +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!blkg->parent)) {
> +			blkg = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> +			goto err_put_css;
> +		}
> +		blkg_get(blkg->parent);
> +	}
> +
>  	spin_lock(&blkcg->lock);
>  	ret = radix_tree_insert(&blkcg->blkg_tree, q->id, blkg);
>  	if (likely(!ret)) {
> @@ -213,6 +222,10 @@ static struct blkcg_gq *blkg_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
>  	if (!ret)
>  		return blkg;
>  
> +	/* @blkg failed fully initialized, use the usual release path */
> +	blkg_put(blkg);
> +	return ERR_PTR(ret);
> +
>  err_put_css:
>  	css_put(&blkcg->css);
>  err_free_blkg:
> @@ -226,8 +239,9 @@ err_free_blkg:
>   * @q: request_queue of interest
>   *
>   * Lookup blkg for the @blkcg - @q pair.  If it doesn't exist, try to
> - * create one.  This function should be called under RCU read lock and
> - * @q->queue_lock.
> + * create one.  blkg creation is performed recursively from blkcg_root such
> + * that all non-root blkg's have access to the parent blkg.  This function
> + * should be called under RCU read lock and @q->queue_lock.
>   *
>   * Returns pointer to the looked up or created blkg on success, ERR_PTR()
>   * value on error.  If @q is dead, returns ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).  If @q is not
> @@ -252,7 +266,23 @@ struct blkcg_gq *blkg_lookup_create(struct blkcg *blkcg,
>  	if (blkg)
>  		return blkg;
>  
> -	return blkg_create(blkcg, q, NULL);
> +	/*
> +	 * Create blkgs walking down from blkcg_root to @blkcg, so that all
> +	 * non-root blkgs have access to their parents.
> +	 */
> +	while (true) {
> +		struct blkcg *pos = blkcg;
> +		struct blkcg *parent = blkcg_parent(blkcg);
> +
> +		while (parent && !__blkg_lookup(parent, q, false)) {
> +			pos = parent;
> +			parent = blkcg_parent(parent);
> +		}
> +
> +		blkg = blkg_create(pos, q, NULL);
> +		if (pos == blkcg || IS_ERR(blkg))
> +			return blkg;
> +	}
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blkg_lookup_create);
>  
> @@ -321,8 +351,10 @@ static void blkg_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
>  
>  void __blkg_release(struct blkcg_gq *blkg)
>  {
> -	/* release the extra blkcg reference this blkg has been holding */
> +	/* release the blkcg and parent blkg refs this blkg has been holding */
>  	css_put(&blkg->blkcg->css);
> +	if (blkg->parent)
> +		blkg_put(blkg->parent);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * A group is freed in rcu manner. But having an rcu lock does not
> diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.h b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> index 2459730..b26ed58 100644
> --- a/block/blk-cgroup.h
> +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.h
> @@ -94,8 +94,13 @@ struct blkcg_gq {
>  	struct list_head		q_node;
>  	struct hlist_node		blkcg_node;
>  	struct blkcg			*blkcg;
> +
> +	/* all non-root blkcg_gq's are guaranteed to have access to parent */
> +	struct blkcg_gq			*parent;
> +
>  	/* request allocation list for this blkcg-q pair */
>  	struct request_list		rl;
> +
>  	/* reference count */
>  	int				refcnt;
>  
> @@ -181,6 +186,19 @@ static inline struct blkcg *bio_blkcg(struct bio *bio)
>  }
>  
>  /**
> + * blkcg_parent - get the parent of a blkcg
> + * @blkcg: blkcg of interest
> + *
> + * Return the parent blkcg of @blkcg.  Can be called anytime.
> + */
> +static inline struct blkcg *blkcg_parent(struct blkcg *blkcg)
> +{
> +	struct cgroup *pcg = blkcg->css.cgroup->parent;
> +
> +	return pcg ? cgroup_to_blkcg(pcg) : NULL;
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * blkg_to_pdata - get policy private data
>   * @blkg: blkg of interest
>   * @pol: policy of interest
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7


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