xfs: per-cpu deferred inode inactivation queues

Move inode inactivation to background work contexts so that it no
longer runs in the context that releases the final reference to an
inode. This will allow process work that ends up blocking on
inactivation to continue doing work while the filesytem processes
the inactivation in the background.

A typical demonstration of this is unlinking an inode with lots of
extents. The extents are removed during inactivation, so this blocks
the process that unlinked the inode from the directory structure. By
moving the inactivation to the background process, the userspace
applicaiton can keep working (e.g. unlinking the next inode in the
directory) while the inactivation work on the previous inode is
done by a different CPU.

The implementation of the queue is relatively simple. We use a
per-cpu lockless linked list (llist) to queue inodes for
inactivation without requiring serialisation mechanisms, and a work
item to allow the queue to be processed by a CPU bound worker
thread. We also keep a count of the queue depth so that we can
trigger work after a number of deferred inactivations have been
queued.

The use of a bound workqueue with a single work depth allows the
workqueue to run one work item per CPU. We queue the work item on
the CPU we are currently running on, and so this essentially gives
us affine per-cpu worker threads for the per-cpu queues. THis
maintains the effective CPU affinity that occurs within XFS at the
AG level due to all objects in a directory being local to an AG.
Hence inactivation work tends to run on the same CPU that last
accessed all the objects that inactivation accesses and this
maintains hot CPU caches for unlink workloads.

A depth of 32 inodes was chosen to match the number of inodes in an
inode cluster buffer. This hopefully allows sequential
allocation/unlink behaviours to defering inactivation of all the
inodes in a single cluster buffer at a time, further helping
maintain hot CPU and buffer cache accesses while running
inactivations.

A hard per-cpu queue throttle of 256 inode has been set to avoid
runaway queuing when inodes that take a long to time inactivate are
being processed. For example, when unlinking inodes with large
numbers of extents that can take a lot of processing to free.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
[djwong: tweak comments and tracepoints, convert opflags to state bits]
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>

9 files changed, 571 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/common.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/common.c
index 8558ca05e11d..06b697f72f23 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/common.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/common.c
@@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ xchk_stop_reaping(
 {
 	sc->flags |= XCHK_REAPING_DISABLED;
 	xfs_blockgc_stop(sc->mp);
+	xfs_inodegc_stop(sc->mp);
 }
 
 /* Restart background reaping of resources. */
@@ -891,6 +892,12 @@ void
 xchk_start_reaping(
 	struct xfs_scrub	*sc)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Readonly filesystems do not perform inactivation, so there's no
+	 * need to restart the worker.
+	 */
+	if (!(sc->mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
+		xfs_inodegc_start(sc->mp);
 	xfs_blockgc_start(sc->mp);
 	sc->flags &= ~XCHK_REAPING_DISABLED;
 }
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
index b9214733d0c3..7d93edb331fb 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ xfs_blockgc_queue(
 {
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (radix_tree_tagged(&pag->pag_ici_root, XFS_ICI_BLOCKGC_TAG))
-		queue_delayed_work(pag->pag_mount->m_gc_workqueue,
+		queue_delayed_work(pag->pag_mount->m_blockgc_wq,
 				   &pag->pag_blockgc_work,
 				   msecs_to_jiffies(xfs_blockgc_secs * 1000));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -450,6 +450,21 @@ xfs_iget_check_free_state(
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* Make all pending inactivation work start immediately. */
+static void
+xfs_inodegc_queue_all(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc;
+	int			cpu;
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, cpu);
+		if (!llist_empty(&gc->list))
+			queue_work_on(cpu, mp->m_inodegc_wq, &gc->work);
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Check the validity of the inode we just found it the cache
  */
@@ -482,13 +497,30 @@ xfs_iget_cache_hit(
 	 * reclaimable state, wait for the initialisation to complete
 	 * before continuing.
 	 *
+	 * If we're racing with the inactivation worker we also want to wait.
+	 * If we're creating a new file, it's possible that the worker
+	 * previously marked the inode as free on disk but hasn't finished
+	 * updating the incore state yet.  The AGI buffer will be dirty and
+	 * locked to the icreate transaction, so a synchronous push of the
+	 * inodegc workers would result in deadlock.  For a regular iget, the
+	 * worker is running already, so we might as well wait.
+	 *
 	 * XXX(hch): eventually we should do something equivalent to
 	 *	     wait_on_inode to wait for these flags to be cleared
 	 *	     instead of polling for it.
 	 */
-	if (ip->i_flags & (XFS_INEW | XFS_IRECLAIM))
+	if (ip->i_flags & (XFS_INEW | XFS_IRECLAIM | XFS_INACTIVATING))
 		goto out_skip;
 
+	if (ip->i_flags & XFS_NEED_INACTIVE) {
+		/* Unlinked inodes cannot be re-grabbed. */
+		if (VFS_I(ip)->i_nlink == 0) {
+			error = -ENOENT;
+			goto out_error;
+		}
+		goto out_inodegc_flush;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Check the inode free state is valid. This also detects lookup
 	 * racing with unlinks.
@@ -536,6 +568,17 @@ out_error:
 	spin_unlock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return error;
+
+out_inodegc_flush:
+	spin_unlock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	/*
+	 * Do not wait for the workers, because the caller could hold an AGI
+	 * buffer lock.  We're just going to sleep in a loop anyway.
+	 */
+	if (xfs_is_inodegc_enabled(mp))
+		xfs_inodegc_queue_all(mp);
+	return -EAGAIN;
 }
 
 static int
@@ -863,6 +906,7 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
 
 	xfs_iflags_clear(ip, XFS_IFLUSHING);
 reclaim:
+	trace_xfs_inode_reclaiming(ip);
 
 	/*
 	 * Because we use RCU freeing we need to ensure the inode always appears
@@ -1340,6 +1384,8 @@ xfs_blockgc_start(
 
 /* Don't try to run block gc on an inode that's in any of these states. */
 #define XFS_BLOCKGC_NOGRAB_IFLAGS	(XFS_INEW | \
+					 XFS_NEED_INACTIVE | \
+					 XFS_INACTIVATING | \
 					 XFS_IRECLAIMABLE | \
 					 XFS_IRECLAIM)
 /*
@@ -1741,25 +1787,13 @@ xfs_check_delalloc(
 #define xfs_check_delalloc(ip, whichfork)	do { } while (0)
 #endif
 
-/*
- * We set the inode flag atomically with the radix tree tag.
- * Once we get tag lookups on the radix tree, this inode flag
- * can go away.
- */
-void
-xfs_inode_mark_reclaimable(
+/* Schedule the inode for reclaim. */
+static void
+xfs_inodegc_set_reclaimable(
 	struct xfs_inode	*ip)
 {
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
 	struct xfs_perag	*pag;
-	bool			need_inactive = xfs_inode_needs_inactive(ip);
-
-	if (!need_inactive) {
-		/* Going straight to reclaim, so drop the dquots. */
-		xfs_qm_dqdetach(ip);
-	} else {
-		xfs_inactive(ip);
-	}
 
 	if (!XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp) && ip->i_delayed_blks) {
 		xfs_check_delalloc(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK);
@@ -1767,30 +1801,276 @@ xfs_inode_mark_reclaimable(
 		ASSERT(0);
 	}
 
-	XFS_STATS_INC(mp, vn_reclaim);
-
-	/*
-	 * We should never get here with one of the reclaim flags already set.
-	 */
-	ASSERT_ALWAYS(!xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_IRECLAIMABLE));
-	ASSERT_ALWAYS(!xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_IRECLAIM));
-
-	/*
-	 * We always use background reclaim here because even if the inode is
-	 * clean, it still may be under IO and hence we have wait for IO
-	 * completion to occur before we can reclaim the inode. The background
-	 * reclaim path handles this more efficiently than we can here, so
-	 * simply let background reclaim tear down all inodes.
-	 */
 	pag = xfs_perag_get(mp, XFS_INO_TO_AGNO(mp, ip->i_ino));
 	spin_lock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
 	spin_lock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
 
+	trace_xfs_inode_set_reclaimable(ip);
+	ip->i_flags &= ~(XFS_NEED_INACTIVE | XFS_INACTIVATING);
+	ip->i_flags |= XFS_IRECLAIMABLE;
 	xfs_perag_set_inode_tag(pag, XFS_INO_TO_AGINO(mp, ip->i_ino),
 			XFS_ICI_RECLAIM_TAG);
-	__xfs_iflags_set(ip, XFS_IRECLAIMABLE);
 
 	spin_unlock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
 	spin_unlock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
 	xfs_perag_put(pag);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Free all speculative preallocations and possibly even the inode itself.
+ * This is the last chance to make changes to an otherwise unreferenced file
+ * before incore reclamation happens.
+ */
+static void
+xfs_inodegc_inactivate(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip)
+{
+	trace_xfs_inode_inactivating(ip);
+	xfs_inactive(ip);
+	xfs_inodegc_set_reclaimable(ip);
+}
+
+void
+xfs_inodegc_worker(
+	struct work_struct	*work)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc = container_of(work, struct xfs_inodegc,
+							work);
+	struct llist_node	*node = llist_del_all(&gc->list);
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip, *n;
+
+	WRITE_ONCE(gc->items, 0);
+
+	if (!node)
+		return;
+
+	ip = llist_entry(node, struct xfs_inode, i_gclist);
+	trace_xfs_inodegc_worker(ip->i_mount, __return_address);
+
+	llist_for_each_entry_safe(ip, n, node, i_gclist) {
+		xfs_iflags_set(ip, XFS_INACTIVATING);
+		xfs_inodegc_inactivate(ip);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Force all currently queued inode inactivation work to run immediately, and
+ * wait for the work to finish. Two pass - queue all the work first pass, wait
+ * for it in a second pass.
+ */
+void
+xfs_inodegc_flush(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc;
+	int			cpu;
+
+	if (!xfs_is_inodegc_enabled(mp))
+		return;
+
+	trace_xfs_inodegc_flush(mp, __return_address);
+
+	xfs_inodegc_queue_all(mp);
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, cpu);
+		flush_work(&gc->work);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Flush all the pending work and then disable the inode inactivation background
+ * workers and wait for them to stop.
+ */
+void
+xfs_inodegc_stop(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc;
+	int			cpu;
+
+	if (!xfs_clear_inodegc_enabled(mp))
+		return;
+
+	xfs_inodegc_queue_all(mp);
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, cpu);
+		cancel_work_sync(&gc->work);
+	}
+	trace_xfs_inodegc_stop(mp, __return_address);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Enable the inode inactivation background workers and schedule deferred inode
+ * inactivation work if there is any.
+ */
+void
+xfs_inodegc_start(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	if (xfs_set_inodegc_enabled(mp))
+		return;
+
+	trace_xfs_inodegc_start(mp, __return_address);
+	xfs_inodegc_queue_all(mp);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Schedule the inactivation worker when:
+ *
+ *  - We've accumulated more than one inode cluster buffer's worth of inodes.
+ */
+static inline bool
+xfs_inodegc_want_queue_work(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip,
+	unsigned int		items)
+{
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
+
+	if (items > mp->m_ino_geo.inodes_per_cluster)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Upper bound on the number of inodes in each AG that can be queued for
+ * inactivation at any given time, to avoid monopolizing the workqueue.
+ */
+#define XFS_INODEGC_MAX_BACKLOG		(4 * XFS_INODES_PER_CHUNK)
+
+/*
+ * Make the frontend wait for inactivations when:
+ *
+ *  - The queue depth exceeds the maximum allowable percpu backlog.
+ *
+ * Note: If the current thread is running a transaction, we don't ever want to
+ * wait for other transactions because that could introduce a deadlock.
+ */
+static inline bool
+xfs_inodegc_want_flush_work(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip,
+	unsigned int		items)
+{
+	if (current->journal_info)
+		return false;
+
+	if (items > XFS_INODEGC_MAX_BACKLOG)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Queue a background inactivation worker if there are inodes that need to be
+ * inactivated and higher level xfs code hasn't disabled the background
+ * workers.
+ */
+static void
+xfs_inodegc_queue(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip)
+{
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc;
+	int			items;
+
+	trace_xfs_inode_set_need_inactive(ip);
+	spin_lock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
+	ip->i_flags |= XFS_NEED_INACTIVE;
+	spin_unlock(&ip->i_flags_lock);
+
+	gc = get_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc);
+	llist_add(&ip->i_gclist, &gc->list);
+	items = READ_ONCE(gc->items);
+	WRITE_ONCE(gc->items, items + 1);
+	put_cpu_ptr(gc);
+
+	if (!xfs_is_inodegc_enabled(mp))
+		return;
+
+	if (xfs_inodegc_want_queue_work(ip, items)) {
+		trace_xfs_inodegc_queue(mp, __return_address);
+		queue_work(mp->m_inodegc_wq, &gc->work);
+	}
+
+	if (xfs_inodegc_want_flush_work(ip, items)) {
+		trace_xfs_inodegc_throttle(mp, __return_address);
+		flush_work(&gc->work);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * Fold the dead CPU inodegc queue into the current CPUs queue.
+ */
+void
+xfs_inodegc_cpu_dead(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp,
+	unsigned int		dead_cpu)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*dead_gc, *gc;
+	struct llist_node	*first, *last;
+	unsigned int		count = 0;
+
+	dead_gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, dead_cpu);
+	cancel_work_sync(&dead_gc->work);
+
+	if (llist_empty(&dead_gc->list))
+		return;
+
+	first = dead_gc->list.first;
+	last = first;
+	while (last->next) {
+		last = last->next;
+		count++;
+	}
+	dead_gc->list.first = NULL;
+	dead_gc->items = 0;
+
+	/* Add pending work to current CPU */
+	gc = get_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc);
+	llist_add_batch(first, last, &gc->list);
+	count += READ_ONCE(gc->items);
+	WRITE_ONCE(gc->items, count);
+	put_cpu_ptr(gc);
+
+	if (xfs_is_inodegc_enabled(mp)) {
+		trace_xfs_inodegc_queue(mp, __return_address);
+		queue_work(mp->m_inodegc_wq, &gc->work);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * We set the inode flag atomically with the radix tree tag.  Once we get tag
+ * lookups on the radix tree, this inode flag can go away.
+ *
+ * We always use background reclaim here because even if the inode is clean, it
+ * still may be under IO and hence we have wait for IO completion to occur
+ * before we can reclaim the inode. The background reclaim path handles this
+ * more efficiently than we can here, so simply let background reclaim tear down
+ * all inodes.
+ */
+void
+xfs_inode_mark_reclaimable(
+	struct xfs_inode	*ip)
+{
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
+	bool			need_inactive;
+
+	XFS_STATS_INC(mp, vn_reclaim);
+
+	/*
+	 * We should never get here with any of the reclaim flags already set.
+	 */
+	ASSERT_ALWAYS(!xfs_iflags_test(ip, XFS_ALL_IRECLAIM_FLAGS));
+
+	need_inactive = xfs_inode_needs_inactive(ip);
+	if (need_inactive) {
+		xfs_inodegc_queue(ip);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* Going straight to reclaim, so drop the dquots. */
+	xfs_qm_dqdetach(ip);
+	xfs_inodegc_set_reclaimable(ip);
+}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.h
index d0062ebb3f7a..8175148afd50 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_icache.h
@@ -74,4 +74,10 @@ int xfs_icache_inode_is_allocated(struct xfs_mount *mp, struct xfs_trans *tp,
 void xfs_blockgc_stop(struct xfs_mount *mp);
 void xfs_blockgc_start(struct xfs_mount *mp);
 
+void xfs_inodegc_worker(struct work_struct *work);
+void xfs_inodegc_flush(struct xfs_mount *mp);
+void xfs_inodegc_stop(struct xfs_mount *mp);
+void xfs_inodegc_start(struct xfs_mount *mp);
+void xfs_inodegc_cpu_dead(struct xfs_mount *mp, unsigned int cpu);
+
 #endif
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
index e3137bbc7b14..1f62b481d8c5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_inode {
 	mrlock_t		i_lock;		/* inode lock */
 	mrlock_t		i_mmaplock;	/* inode mmap IO lock */
 	atomic_t		i_pincount;	/* inode pin count */
+	struct llist_node	i_gclist;	/* deferred inactivation list */
 
 	/*
 	 * Bitsets of inode metadata that have been checked and/or are sick.
@@ -240,6 +241,7 @@ static inline bool xfs_inode_has_bigtime(struct xfs_inode *ip)
 #define __XFS_IPINNED_BIT	8	 /* wakeup key for zero pin count */
 #define XFS_IPINNED		(1 << __XFS_IPINNED_BIT)
 #define XFS_IEOFBLOCKS		(1 << 9) /* has the preallocblocks tag set */
+#define XFS_NEED_INACTIVE	(1 << 10) /* see XFS_INACTIVATING below */
 /*
  * If this unlinked inode is in the middle of recovery, don't let drop_inode
  * truncate and free the inode.  This can happen if we iget the inode during
@@ -249,13 +251,29 @@ static inline bool xfs_inode_has_bigtime(struct xfs_inode *ip)
 #define XFS_ICOWBLOCKS		(1 << 12)/* has the cowblocks tag set */
 
 /*
+ * If we need to update on-disk metadata before this IRECLAIMABLE inode can be
+ * freed, then NEED_INACTIVE will be set.  Once we start the updates, the
+ * INACTIVATING bit will be set to keep iget away from this inode.  After the
+ * inactivation completes, both flags will be cleared and the inode is a
+ * plain old IRECLAIMABLE inode.
+ */
+#define XFS_INACTIVATING	(1 << 13)
+
+/* All inode state flags related to inode reclaim. */
+#define XFS_ALL_IRECLAIM_FLAGS	(XFS_IRECLAIMABLE | \
+				 XFS_IRECLAIM | \
+				 XFS_NEED_INACTIVE | \
+				 XFS_INACTIVATING)
+
+/*
  * Per-lifetime flags need to be reset when re-using a reclaimable inode during
  * inode lookup. This prevents unintended behaviour on the new inode from
  * ocurring.
  */
 #define XFS_IRECLAIM_RESET_FLAGS	\
 	(XFS_IRECLAIMABLE | XFS_IRECLAIM | \
-	 XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE | XFS_ITRUNCATED)
+	 XFS_IDIRTY_RELEASE | XFS_ITRUNCATED | XFS_NEED_INACTIVE | \
+	 XFS_INACTIVATING)
 
 /*
  * Flags for inode locking.
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
index 1721fce2ec94..a98d2429d795 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c
@@ -2786,6 +2786,13 @@ xlog_recover_process_iunlinks(
 		}
 		xfs_buf_rele(agibp);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Flush the pending unlinked inodes to ensure that the inactivations
+	 * are fully completed on disk and the incore inodes can be reclaimed
+	 * before we signal that recovery is complete.
+	 */
+	xfs_inodegc_flush(mp);
 }
 
 STATIC void
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index baf7b323cb15..1f7e9a608f38 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -514,7 +514,8 @@ xfs_check_summary_counts(
  * Flush and reclaim dirty inodes in preparation for unmount. Inodes and
  * internal inode structures can be sitting in the CIL and AIL at this point,
  * so we need to unpin them, write them back and/or reclaim them before unmount
- * can proceed.
+ * can proceed.  In other words, callers are required to have inactivated all
+ * inodes.
  *
  * An inode cluster that has been freed can have its buffer still pinned in
  * memory because the transaction is still sitting in a iclog. The stale inodes
@@ -546,6 +547,7 @@ xfs_unmount_flush_inodes(
 	mp->m_flags |= XFS_MOUNT_UNMOUNTING;
 
 	xfs_ail_push_all_sync(mp->m_ail);
+	xfs_inodegc_stop(mp);
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_reclaim_work);
 	xfs_reclaim_inodes(mp);
 	xfs_health_unmount(mp);
@@ -782,6 +784,9 @@ xfs_mountfs(
 	if (error)
 		goto out_log_dealloc;
 
+	/* Enable background inode inactivation workers. */
+	xfs_inodegc_start(mp);
+
 	/*
 	 * Get and sanity-check the root inode.
 	 * Save the pointer to it in the mount structure.
@@ -942,6 +947,15 @@ xfs_mountfs(
 	xfs_irele(rip);
 	/* Clean out dquots that might be in memory after quotacheck. */
 	xfs_qm_unmount(mp);
+
+	/*
+	 * Inactivate all inodes that might still be in memory after a log
+	 * intent recovery failure so that reclaim can free them.  Metadata
+	 * inodes and the root directory shouldn't need inactivation, but the
+	 * mount failed for some reason, so pull down all the state and flee.
+	 */
+	xfs_inodegc_flush(mp);
+
 	/*
 	 * Flush all inode reclamation work and flush the log.
 	 * We have to do this /after/ rtunmount and qm_unmount because those
@@ -989,6 +1003,16 @@ xfs_unmountfs(
 	uint64_t		resblks;
 	int			error;
 
+	/*
+	 * Perform all on-disk metadata updates required to inactivate inodes
+	 * that the VFS evicted earlier in the unmount process.  Freeing inodes
+	 * and discarding CoW fork preallocations can cause shape changes to
+	 * the free inode and refcount btrees, respectively, so we must finish
+	 * this before we discard the metadata space reservations.  Metadata
+	 * inodes and the root directory do not require inactivation.
+	 */
+	xfs_inodegc_flush(mp);
+
 	xfs_blockgc_stop(mp);
 	xfs_fs_unreserve_ag_blocks(mp);
 	xfs_qm_unmount_quotas(mp);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
index ed7064596f94..e6f8675e7a40 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.h
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ struct xfs_error_cfg {
 };
 
 /*
+ * Per-cpu deferred inode inactivation GC lists.
+ */
+struct xfs_inodegc {
+	struct llist_head	list;
+	struct work_struct	work;
+
+	/* approximate count of inodes in the list */
+	unsigned int		items;
+};
+
+/*
  * The struct xfsmount layout is optimised to separate read-mostly variables
  * from variables that are frequently modified. We put the read-mostly variables
  * first, then place all the other variables at the end.
@@ -83,6 +94,8 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
 	xfs_buftarg_t		*m_logdev_targp;/* ptr to log device */
 	xfs_buftarg_t		*m_rtdev_targp;	/* ptr to rt device */
 	struct list_head	m_mount_list;	/* global mount list */
+	void __percpu		*m_inodegc;	/* percpu inodegc structures */
+
 	/*
 	 * Optional cache of rt summary level per bitmap block with the
 	 * invariant that m_rsum_cache[bbno] <= the minimum i for which
@@ -95,8 +108,9 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
 	struct workqueue_struct	*m_unwritten_workqueue;
 	struct workqueue_struct	*m_cil_workqueue;
 	struct workqueue_struct	*m_reclaim_workqueue;
-	struct workqueue_struct *m_gc_workqueue;
 	struct workqueue_struct	*m_sync_workqueue;
+	struct workqueue_struct *m_blockgc_wq;
+	struct workqueue_struct *m_inodegc_wq;
 
 	int			m_bsize;	/* fs logical block size */
 	uint8_t			m_blkbit_log;	/* blocklog + NBBY */
@@ -137,6 +151,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
 	struct xfs_ino_geometry	m_ino_geo;	/* inode geometry */
 	struct xfs_trans_resv	m_resv;		/* precomputed res values */
 						/* low free space thresholds */
+	unsigned long		m_opstate;	/* dynamic state flags */
 	bool			m_always_cow;
 	bool			m_fail_unmount;
 	bool			m_finobt_nores; /* no per-AG finobt resv. */
@@ -260,6 +275,32 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
 #define XFS_MOUNT_DAX_NEVER	(1ULL << 27)
 
 /*
+ * If set, inactivation worker threads will be scheduled to process queued
+ * inodegc work.  If not, queued inodes remain in memory waiting to be
+ * processed.
+ */
+#define XFS_OPSTATE_INODEGC_ENABLED	0
+
+#define __XFS_IS_OPSTATE(name, NAME) \
+static inline bool xfs_is_ ## name (struct xfs_mount *mp) \
+{ \
+	return test_bit(XFS_OPSTATE_ ## NAME, &mp->m_opstate); \
+} \
+static inline bool xfs_clear_ ## name (struct xfs_mount *mp) \
+{ \
+	return test_and_clear_bit(XFS_OPSTATE_ ## NAME, &mp->m_opstate); \
+} \
+static inline bool xfs_set_ ## name (struct xfs_mount *mp) \
+{ \
+	return test_and_set_bit(XFS_OPSTATE_ ## NAME, &mp->m_opstate); \
+}
+
+__XFS_IS_OPSTATE(inodegc_enabled, INODEGC_ENABLED)
+
+#define XFS_OPSTATE_STRINGS \
+	{ (1UL << XFS_OPSTATE_INODEGC_ENABLED),		"inodegc" }
+
+/*
  * Max and min values for mount-option defined I/O
  * preallocation sizes.
  */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index e0b97e4c8e16..fd39b97c7bb4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -530,21 +530,29 @@ xfs_init_mount_workqueues(
 	if (!mp->m_reclaim_workqueue)
 		goto out_destroy_cil;
 
-	mp->m_gc_workqueue = alloc_workqueue("xfs-gc/%s",
-			WQ_SYSFS | WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM,
+	mp->m_blockgc_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfs-blockgc/%s",
+			XFS_WQFLAGS(WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM),
 			0, mp->m_super->s_id);
-	if (!mp->m_gc_workqueue)
+	if (!mp->m_blockgc_wq)
 		goto out_destroy_reclaim;
 
+	mp->m_inodegc_wq = alloc_workqueue("xfs-inodegc/%s",
+			XFS_WQFLAGS(WQ_FREEZABLE | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM),
+			1, mp->m_super->s_id);
+	if (!mp->m_inodegc_wq)
+		goto out_destroy_blockgc;
+
 	mp->m_sync_workqueue = alloc_workqueue("xfs-sync/%s",
 			XFS_WQFLAGS(WQ_FREEZABLE), 0, mp->m_super->s_id);
 	if (!mp->m_sync_workqueue)
-		goto out_destroy_eofb;
+		goto out_destroy_inodegc;
 
 	return 0;
 
-out_destroy_eofb:
-	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_gc_workqueue);
+out_destroy_inodegc:
+	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_inodegc_wq);
+out_destroy_blockgc:
+	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_blockgc_wq);
 out_destroy_reclaim:
 	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_reclaim_workqueue);
 out_destroy_cil:
@@ -562,7 +570,8 @@ xfs_destroy_mount_workqueues(
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
 {
 	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_sync_workqueue);
-	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_gc_workqueue);
+	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_blockgc_wq);
+	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_inodegc_wq);
 	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_reclaim_workqueue);
 	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_cil_workqueue);
 	destroy_workqueue(mp->m_unwritten_workqueue);
@@ -724,6 +733,8 @@ xfs_fs_sync_fs(
 {
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp = XFS_M(sb);
 
+	trace_xfs_fs_sync_fs(mp, __return_address);
+
 	/*
 	 * Doing anything during the async pass would be counterproductive.
 	 */
@@ -740,6 +751,22 @@ xfs_fs_sync_fs(
 		flush_delayed_work(&mp->m_log->l_work);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If we are called with page faults frozen out, it means we are about
+	 * to freeze the transaction subsystem. Take the opportunity to shut
+	 * down inodegc because once SB_FREEZE_FS is set it's too late to
+	 * prevent inactivation races with freeze. The fs doesn't get called
+	 * again by the freezing process until after SB_FREEZE_FS has been set,
+	 * so it's now or never.
+	 *
+	 * We don't care if this is a normal syncfs call that does this or
+	 * freeze that does this - we can run this multiple times without issue
+	 * and we won't race with a restart because a restart can only occur
+	 * when the state is either SB_FREEZE_FS or SB_FREEZE_COMPLETE.
+	 */
+	if (sb->s_writers.frozen == SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT)
+		xfs_inodegc_stop(mp);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -857,6 +884,17 @@ xfs_fs_freeze(
 	xfs_save_resvblks(mp);
 	ret = xfs_log_quiesce(mp);
 	memalloc_nofs_restore(flags);
+
+	/*
+	 * For read-write filesystems, we need to restart the inodegc on error
+	 * because we stopped it at SB_FREEZE_PAGEFAULT level and a thaw is not
+	 * going to be run to restart it now.  We are at SB_FREEZE_FS level
+	 * here, so we can restart safely without racing with a stop in
+	 * xfs_fs_sync_fs().
+	 */
+	if (ret && !(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
+		xfs_inodegc_start(mp);
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -869,6 +907,14 @@ xfs_fs_unfreeze(
 	xfs_restore_resvblks(mp);
 	xfs_log_work_queue(mp);
 	xfs_blockgc_start(mp);
+
+	/*
+	 * Don't reactivate the inodegc worker on a readonly filesystem because
+	 * inodes are sent directly to reclaim.
+	 */
+	if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
+		xfs_inodegc_start(mp);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -994,6 +1040,35 @@ xfs_destroy_percpu_counters(
 	percpu_counter_destroy(&mp->m_delalloc_blks);
 }
 
+static int
+xfs_inodegc_init_percpu(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	struct xfs_inodegc	*gc;
+	int			cpu;
+
+	mp->m_inodegc = alloc_percpu(struct xfs_inodegc);
+	if (!mp->m_inodegc)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+		gc = per_cpu_ptr(mp->m_inodegc, cpu);
+		init_llist_head(&gc->list);
+		gc->items = 0;
+		INIT_WORK(&gc->work, xfs_inodegc_worker);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void
+xfs_inodegc_free_percpu(
+	struct xfs_mount	*mp)
+{
+	if (!mp->m_inodegc)
+		return;
+	free_percpu(mp->m_inodegc);
+}
+
 static void
 xfs_fs_put_super(
 	struct super_block	*sb)
@@ -1011,6 +1086,7 @@ xfs_fs_put_super(
 	xfs_freesb(mp);
 	free_percpu(mp->m_stats.xs_stats);
 	xfs_mount_list_del(mp);
+	xfs_inodegc_free_percpu(mp);
 	xfs_destroy_percpu_counters(mp);
 	xfs_destroy_mount_workqueues(mp);
 	xfs_close_devices(mp);
@@ -1382,6 +1458,10 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 	if (error)
 		goto out_destroy_workqueues;
 
+	error = xfs_inodegc_init_percpu(mp);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_destroy_counters;
+
 	/*
 	 * All percpu data structures requiring cleanup when a cpu goes offline
 	 * must be allocated before adding this @mp to the cpu-dead handler's
@@ -1393,7 +1473,7 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 	mp->m_stats.xs_stats = alloc_percpu(struct xfsstats);
 	if (!mp->m_stats.xs_stats) {
 		error = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out_destroy_counters;
+		goto out_destroy_inodegc;
 	}
 
 	error = xfs_readsb(mp, flags);
@@ -1596,8 +1676,10 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super(
 	xfs_freesb(mp);
  out_free_stats:
 	free_percpu(mp->m_stats.xs_stats);
- out_destroy_counters:
+ out_destroy_inodegc:
 	xfs_mount_list_del(mp);
+	xfs_inodegc_free_percpu(mp);
+ out_destroy_counters:
 	xfs_destroy_percpu_counters(mp);
  out_destroy_workqueues:
 	xfs_destroy_mount_workqueues(mp);
@@ -1680,6 +1762,9 @@ xfs_remount_rw(
 	if (error && error != -ENOSPC)
 		return error;
 
+	/* Re-enable the background inode inactivation worker. */
+	xfs_inodegc_start(mp);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1702,6 +1787,15 @@ xfs_remount_ro(
 		return error;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Stop the inodegc background worker.  xfs_fs_reconfigure already
+	 * flushed all pending inodegc work when it sync'd the filesystem.
+	 * The VFS holds s_umount, so we know that inodes cannot enter
+	 * xfs_fs_destroy_inode during a remount operation.  In readonly mode
+	 * we send inodes straight to reclaim, so no inodes will be queued.
+	 */
+	xfs_inodegc_stop(mp);
+
 	/* Free the per-AG metadata reservation pool. */
 	error = xfs_fs_unreserve_ag_blocks(mp);
 	if (error) {
@@ -2102,7 +2196,7 @@ xfs_cpu_dead(
 	spin_lock(&xfs_mount_list_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(mp, n, &xfs_mount_list, m_mount_list) {
 		spin_unlock(&xfs_mount_list_lock);
-		/* xfs_subsys_dead(mp, cpu); */
+		xfs_inodegc_cpu_dead(mp, cpu);
 		spin_lock(&xfs_mount_list_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&xfs_mount_list_lock);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
index 19260291ff8b..cd56ac7c39a6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h
@@ -157,6 +157,45 @@ DEFINE_PERAG_REF_EVENT(xfs_perag_put);
 DEFINE_PERAG_REF_EVENT(xfs_perag_set_inode_tag);
 DEFINE_PERAG_REF_EVENT(xfs_perag_clear_inode_tag);
 
+DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(xfs_fs_class,
+	TP_PROTO(struct xfs_mount *mp, void *caller_ip),
+	TP_ARGS(mp, caller_ip),
+	TP_STRUCT__entry(
+		__field(dev_t, dev)
+		__field(unsigned long long, mflags)
+		__field(unsigned long, opstate)
+		__field(unsigned long, sbflags)
+		__field(void *, caller_ip)
+	),
+	TP_fast_assign(
+		if (mp) {
+			__entry->dev = mp->m_super->s_dev;
+			__entry->mflags = mp->m_flags;
+			__entry->opstate = mp->m_opstate;
+			__entry->sbflags = mp->m_super->s_flags;
+		}
+		__entry->caller_ip = caller_ip;
+	),
+	TP_printk("dev %d:%d m_flags 0x%llx opstate (%s) s_flags 0x%lx caller %pS",
+		  MAJOR(__entry->dev), MINOR(__entry->dev),
+		  __entry->mflags,
+		  __print_flags(__entry->opstate, "|", XFS_OPSTATE_STRINGS),
+		  __entry->sbflags,
+		  __entry->caller_ip)
+);
+
+#define DEFINE_FS_EVENT(name)	\
+DEFINE_EVENT(xfs_fs_class, name,					\
+	TP_PROTO(struct xfs_mount *mp, void *caller_ip), \
+	TP_ARGS(mp, caller_ip))
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_flush);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_start);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_stop);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_worker);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_queue);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_inodegc_throttle);
+DEFINE_FS_EVENT(xfs_fs_sync_fs);
+
 DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(xfs_ag_class,
 	TP_PROTO(struct xfs_mount *mp, xfs_agnumber_t agno),
 	TP_ARGS(mp, agno),
@@ -616,14 +655,17 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(xfs_inode_class,
 	TP_STRUCT__entry(
 		__field(dev_t, dev)
 		__field(xfs_ino_t, ino)
+		__field(unsigned long, iflags)
 	),
 	TP_fast_assign(
 		__entry->dev = VFS_I(ip)->i_sb->s_dev;
 		__entry->ino = ip->i_ino;
+		__entry->iflags = ip->i_flags;
 	),
-	TP_printk("dev %d:%d ino 0x%llx",
+	TP_printk("dev %d:%d ino 0x%llx iflags 0x%lx",
 		  MAJOR(__entry->dev), MINOR(__entry->dev),
-		  __entry->ino)
+		  __entry->ino,
+		  __entry->iflags)
 )
 
 #define DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(name) \
@@ -667,6 +709,10 @@ DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_free_eofblocks_invalid);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_set_cowblocks_tag);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_clear_cowblocks_tag);
 DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_free_cowblocks_invalid);
+DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_set_reclaimable);
+DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_reclaiming);
+DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_set_need_inactive);
+DEFINE_INODE_EVENT(xfs_inode_inactivating);
 
 /*
  * ftrace's __print_symbolic requires that all enum values be wrapped in the