14 Mar, 2012
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Timestamps on regular files are the last metadata that XFS does not update
transactionally. Now that we use the delaylog mode exclusively and made
the log scode scale extremly well there is no need to bypass that code for
timestamp updates. Logging all updates allows to drop a lot of code, and
will allow for further performance improvements later on.Note that this patch drops optimized handling of fdatasync - it will be
added back in a separate commit.Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
26 Feb, 2012
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At the end of xfs_reclaim_inode(), the inode is locked in order to
we wait for a possible concurrent lookup to complete before the
inode is freed. This synchronization step was taking both the ILOCK
and the IOLOCK, but the latter was causing lockdep to produce
reports of the possibility of deadlock.It turns out that there's no need to acquire the IOLOCK at this
point anyway. It may have been required in some earlier version of
the code, but there should be no need to take the IOLOCK in
xfs_iget(), so there's no (longer) any need to get it here for
synchronization. Add an assertion in xfs_iget() as a reminder
of this assumption.Dave Chinner diagnosed this on IRC, and Christoph Hellwig suggested
no longer including the IOLOCK. I just put together the patch.Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
18 Jan, 2012
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We almost never block on i_flock, the exception is synchronous inode
flushing. Instead of bloating the inode with a 16/24-byte completion
that we abuse as a semaphore just implement it as a bitlock that uses
a bit waitqueue for the rare sleeping path. This primarily is a
tradeoff between a much smaller inode and a faster non-blocking
path vs faster wakeups, and we are much better off with the former.A small downside is that we will lose lockdep checking for i_flock, but
given that it's always taken inside the ilock that should be acceptable.Note that for example the inode writeback locking is implemented in a
very similar way.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
09 Jan, 2012
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (22 commits)
xfs: mark the xfssyncd workqueue as non-reentrant
xfs: simplify xfs_qm_detach_gdquots
xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk()
xfs: remove unused XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit
xfs: remove XFS_QMOPT_DQSUSER
xfs: kill xfs_qm_idtodq
xfs: merge xfs_qm_dqinit_core into the only caller
xfs: add a xfs_dqhold helper
xfs: simplify xfs_qm_dqattach_grouphint
xfs: nest qm_dqfrlist_lock inside the dquot qlock
xfs: flatten the dquot lock ordering
xfs: implement lazy removal for the dquot freelist
xfs: remove XFS_DQ_INACTIVE
xfs: cleanup xfs_qm_dqlookup
xfs: cleanup dquot locking helpers
xfs: remove the sync_mode argument to xfs_qm_dqflush_all
xfs: remove xfs_qm_sync
xfs: make sure to really flush all dquots in xfs_qm_quotacheck
xfs: untangle SYNC_WAIT and SYNC_TRYLOCK meanings for xfs_qm_dqflush
xfs: remove the lid_size field in struct log_item_desc
...Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
24 Dec, 2011
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Since Linux 2.6.36 the writeback code has introduces various measures for
live lock prevention during sync(). Unfortunately some of these are
actively harmful for the XFS model, where the inode gets marked dirty for
metadata from the data I/O handler.The older_than_this checks that are now more strictly enforced since
writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback
by only calling into __writeback_inodes_sb and thus only sampling the
current cut off time once. But on a slow enough devices the previous
asynchronous sync pass might not have fully completed yet, and thus XFS
might mark metadata dirty only after that sampling of the cut off time for
the blocking pass already happened. I have not myself reproduced this
myself on a real system, but by introducing artificial delay into the
XFS I/O completion workqueues it can be reproduced easily.Fix this by iterating over all XFS inodes in ->sync_fs and log all that
are dirty. This might log inode that only got redirtied after the
previous pass, but given how cheap delayed logging of inodes is it
isn't a major concern for performance.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Tested-by: Mark Tinguely
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
13 Dec, 2011
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Now that we can't have any dirty dquots around that aren't in the AIL we
can get rid of the explicit dquot syncing from xfssyncd and xfs_fs_sync_fs
and instead rely on AIL pushing to write out any quota updates.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
30 Nov, 2011
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If we are doing synchronous inode reclaim we block the VM from making
progress in memory reclaim. So if we encouter a flush locked inode
promote it in the delwri list and wake up xfsbufd to write it out now.
Without this we can get hangs of up to 30 seconds during workloads hitting
synchronous inode reclaim.The scheme is copied from what we do for dquot reclaims.
Reported-by: Simon Kirby
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Simon Kirby
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers
12 Oct, 2011
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
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We now have an i_dio_count filed and surrounding infrastructure to wait
for direct I/O completion instead of i_icount, and we have never needed
to iocount waits for buffered I/O given that we only set the page uptodate
after finishing all required work. Thus remove i_iocount, and replace
the actually needed waits with calls to inode_dio_wait.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
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Remove the xfs_buf_relse from xfs_bwrite and let the caller handle it to
mirror the delwri and read paths.Also remove the mount pointer passed to xfs_bwrite, which is superflous now
that we have a mount pointer in the buftarg.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder
13 Aug, 2011
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Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the
annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large
amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few
files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary
sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from
kernel/.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder