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read_all: retry to queue work for any worker

Message ID 26d555b1d9deddb5a6f0a93a7c7d3b00e8abc1ff.1570616598.git.jstancek@redhat.com
State Superseded
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Series read_all: retry to queue work for any worker | expand

Commit Message

Jan Stancek Oct. 9, 2019, 10:29 a.m. UTC
read_all is currently retrying only for short time period and it's
retrying to queue for same worker. If that worker is busy, it easily
hits timeout.

For example 'kernel_page_tables' on aarch64 can take long time to open/read:
  # time dd if=/sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables of=/dev/null count=1 bs=1024
  1+0 records in
  1+0 records out
  1024 bytes (1.0 kB, 1.0 KiB) copied, 13.0531 s, 0.1 kB/s

  real    0m13.066s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m13.059s

Rather than retrying to queue for specific worker, pick any that can accept
the work and keep trying until we succeed or hit test timeout.

Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
---
 testcases/kernel/fs/read_all/read_all.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Cyril Hrubis Oct. 9, 2019, 1:56 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi!
> +static void work_push_retry(int worker, const char *buf)
> +{
> +	int i, ret, worker_min, worker_max;
> +
> +	if (worker < 0) {
> +		/* pick any, try -worker first */
> +		worker_min = worker * (-1);
> +		worker_max = worker_count;
> +	} else {
> +		/* keep trying worker */
> +		worker_min = worker;
> +		worker_max = worker + 1;
> +	}
> +	i = worker_min;
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		ret = queue_push(workers[i].q, buf);
> +		if (ret == 1)
> +			break;
> +
> +		if (++i >= worker_max) {
> +			i = worker_min;
> +			usleep(100000);


My only concern is that we sleep for too long here. Maybe we should
start with smaller sleep here and increase it after a while.

Or have you checked that the tests runs as fast as if we had smaller
sleep here?

> +		}
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void stop_workers(void)
>  {
>  	const char stop_code[1] = { '\0' };
> @@ -292,7 +319,7 @@ static void stop_workers(void)
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
>  		if (workers[i].q)
> -			TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[i].q, stop_code), 1);
> +			work_push_retry(i, stop_code);
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
> @@ -310,7 +337,7 @@ static void rep_sched_work(const char *path, int rep)
>  	for (i = j = 0; i < rep; i++, j++) {
>  		if (j >= worker_count)
>  			j = 0;
> -		TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[j].q, path), 1);
> +		work_push_retry(-j, path);
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mailing list info: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp
Jan Stancek Oct. 9, 2019, 2:29 p.m. UTC | #2
----- Original Message -----
> Hi!
> > +static void work_push_retry(int worker, const char *buf)
> > +{
> > +	int i, ret, worker_min, worker_max;
> > +
> > +	if (worker < 0) {
> > +		/* pick any, try -worker first */
> > +		worker_min = worker * (-1);
> > +		worker_max = worker_count;
> > +	} else {
> > +		/* keep trying worker */
> > +		worker_min = worker;
> > +		worker_max = worker + 1;
> > +	}
> > +	i = worker_min;
> > +
> > +	for (;;) {
> > +		ret = queue_push(workers[i].q, buf);
> > +		if (ret == 1)
> > +			break;
> > +
> > +		if (++i >= worker_max) {
> > +			i = worker_min;
> > +			usleep(100000);
> 
> 
> My only concern is that we sleep for too long here. Maybe we should
> start with smaller sleep here and increase it after a while.
> 
> Or have you checked that the tests runs as fast as if we had smaller
> sleep here?

Small benchmark shows that smaller sleep can complete faster. I'll send v2.

> 
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +}
> > +
> >  static void stop_workers(void)
> >  {
> >  	const char stop_code[1] = { '\0' };
> > @@ -292,7 +319,7 @@ static void stop_workers(void)
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
> >  		if (workers[i].q)
> > -			TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[i].q, stop_code), 1);
> > +			work_push_retry(i, stop_code);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
> > @@ -310,7 +337,7 @@ static void rep_sched_work(const char *path, int rep)
> >  	for (i = j = 0; i < rep; i++, j++) {
> >  		if (j >= worker_count)
> >  			j = 0;
> > -		TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[j].q, path), 1);
> > +		work_push_retry(-j, path);
> >  	}
> >  }
> >  
> > --
> > 1.8.3.1
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Mailing list info: https://lists.linux.it/listinfo/ltp
> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>
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diff --git a/testcases/kernel/fs/read_all/read_all.c b/testcases/kernel/fs/read_all/read_all.c
index 3dac20e02638..4bce4521ace7 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/fs/read_all/read_all.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/fs/read_all/read_all.c
@@ -282,6 +282,33 @@  static void spawn_workers(void)
 	}
 }
 
+static void work_push_retry(int worker, const char *buf)
+{
+	int i, ret, worker_min, worker_max;
+
+	if (worker < 0) {
+		/* pick any, try -worker first */
+		worker_min = worker * (-1);
+		worker_max = worker_count;
+	} else {
+		/* keep trying worker */
+		worker_min = worker;
+		worker_max = worker + 1;
+	}
+	i = worker_min;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = queue_push(workers[i].q, buf);
+		if (ret == 1)
+			break;
+
+		if (++i >= worker_max) {
+			i = worker_min;
+			usleep(100000);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 static void stop_workers(void)
 {
 	const char stop_code[1] = { '\0' };
@@ -292,7 +319,7 @@  static void stop_workers(void)
 
 	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
 		if (workers[i].q)
-			TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[i].q, stop_code), 1);
+			work_push_retry(i, stop_code);
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < worker_count; i++) {
@@ -310,7 +337,7 @@  static void rep_sched_work(const char *path, int rep)
 	for (i = j = 0; i < rep; i++, j++) {
 		if (j >= worker_count)
 			j = 0;
-		TST_RETRY_FUNC(queue_push(workers[j].q, path), 1);
+		work_push_retry(-j, path);
 	}
 }