Re: [PATCH 16/22] btrfs: Use alloc_ordered_workqueue() to create ordered workqueues

[Wang Yugui]

Hi,

> BACKGROUND
> ==========
> 
> When multiple work items are queued to a workqueue, their execution order
> doesn't match the queueing order. They may get executed in any order and
> simultaneously. When fully serialized execution - one by one in the queueing
> order - is needed, an ordered workqueue should be used which can be created
> with alloc_ordered_workqueue().
> 
> However, alloc_ordered_workqueue() was a later addition. Before it, an
> ordered workqueue could be obtained by creating an UNBOUND workqueue with
> @max_active==1. This originally was an implementation side-effect which was
> broken by 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
> ordered"). Because there were users that depended on the ordered execution,
> 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
> made workqueue allocation path to implicitly promote UNBOUND workqueues w/
> @max_active==1 to ordered workqueues.
> 
> While this has worked okay, overloading the UNBOUND allocation interface
> this way creates other issues. It's difficult to tell whether a given
> workqueue actually needs to be ordered and users that legitimately want a
> min concurrency level wq unexpectedly gets an ordered one instead. With
> planned UNBOUND workqueue updates to improve execution locality and more
> prevalence of chiplet designs which can benefit from such improvements, this
> isn't a state we wanna be in forever.
> 
> This patch series audits all callsites that create an UNBOUND workqueue w/
> @max_active==1 and converts them to alloc_ordered_workqueue() as necessary.
> 
> WHAT TO LOOK FOR
> ================
> 
> The conversions are from
> 
>   alloc_workqueue(WQ_UNBOUND | flags, 1, args..)
> 
> to
> 
>   alloc_ordered_workqueue(flags, args...)
> 
> which don't cause any functional changes. If you know that fully ordered
> execution is not ncessary, please let me know. I'll drop the conversion and
> instead add a comment noting the fact to reduce confusion while conversion
> is in progress.
> 
> If you aren't fully sure, it's completely fine to let the conversion
> through. The behavior will stay exactly the same and we can always
> reconsider later.
> 
> As there are follow-up workqueue core changes, I'd really appreciate if the
> patch can be routed through the workqueue tree w/ your acks. Thanks.

Should we  add alloc_ordered_workqueue to 
btrfs_alloc_workqueue() of fs/btrfs/async-thread.c too?

Best Regards
Wang Yugui (wangyugui@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
2023/04/30

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 +-
>  fs/btrfs/scrub.c   | 6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> index 9e1596bb208d..b1f6ff69dbe1 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> @@ -2218,7 +2218,7 @@ static int btrfs_init_workqueues(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
>  	fs_info->qgroup_rescan_workers =
>  		btrfs_alloc_workqueue(fs_info, "qgroup-rescan", flags, 1, 0);
>  	fs_info->discard_ctl.discard_workers =
> -		alloc_workqueue("btrfs_discard", WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_FREEZABLE, 1);
> +		alloc_ordered_workqueue("btrfs_discard", WQ_FREEZABLE);
>  
>  	if (!(fs_info->workers && fs_info->hipri_workers &&
>  	      fs_info->delalloc_workers && fs_info->flush_workers &&
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
> index 69c93ae333f6..70882358bdb0 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
> @@ -4245,8 +4245,10 @@ static noinline_for_stack int scrub_workers_get(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
>  	if (refcount_inc_not_zero(&fs_info->scrub_workers_refcnt))
>  		return 0;
>  
> -	scrub_workers = alloc_workqueue("btrfs-scrub", flags,
> -					is_dev_replace ? 1 : max_active);
> +	if (is_dev_replace)
> +		scrub_workers = alloc_ordered_workqueue("btrfs-scrub", flags);
> +	else
> +		scrub_workers = alloc_workqueue("btrfs-scrub", flags, max_active);
>  	if (!scrub_workers)
>  		goto fail_scrub_workers;
>  
> -- 
> 2.40.0