12 Jul, 2011
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There is a potential race during filesystem mounting which has recently
been reported. It occurs when the userland gfs_controld is able to
process requests fast enough that it tries to use the sysfs interface
before the lock module is properly initialised. This is a pretty
unusual case as normally the lock module initialisation is very quick
compared with gfs_controld.This patch adds an interruptible completion which is used to ensure that
userland will wait for the initialisation of the lock module to
complete.There are other potential solutions to this problem, but this is the
quickest at this stage and has been tested both with and without
mount.gfs2 present in the system.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
Reported-by: David Booher
10 May, 2011
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The VFS superblock structure now has a UUID field, so we can use that
in preference to the UUID field in the GFS2 superblock now.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
06 Oct, 2010
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Mostly the glock operations follow the type of the glock. The
one exception is the transaction glock, so we need to check for
that directly.Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
29 Sep, 2010
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Recently a feature was added to GFS2 to allow journal id allocation
via sysfs. This patch builds upon that so that a negative journal id
will be treated as an error code to be passed back as the return code
from mount. This allows termination of the mount process if there is
a failure.Also, the process has been updated so that the kernel will wait
for a journal id, even in the "spectator" case. This is required
in order to avoid mounting a filesystem in case there is an error
while joining the cluster. In the spectator case, 0 is written into
the file to indicate that all is well, and that mount should continue.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
08 Aug, 2010
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (55 commits)
workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall()
workqueue: explain for_each_*cwq_cpu() iterators
fscache: fix build on !CONFIG_SYSCTL
slow-work: kill it
gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work
cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: drop references to slow-work
fscache: convert operation to use workqueue instead of slow-work
fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work
workqueue: fix how cpu number is stored in work->data
workqueue: fix mayday_mask handling on UP
workqueue: fix build problem on !CONFIG_SMP
workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker()
async: use workqueue for worker pool
workqueue: remove WQ_SINGLE_CPU and use WQ_UNBOUND instead
workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
workqueue: prepare for WQ_UNBOUND implementation
libata: take advantage of cmwq and remove concurrency limitations
workqueue: fix worker management invocation without pending works
...Fixed up conflicts in fs/cifs/* as per Tejun. Other trivial conflicts in
include/linux/workqueue.h, kernel/trace/Kconfig and kernel/workqueue.c
29 Jul, 2010
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This patch implements a wait for the journal id in the case that it has
not been specified on the command line. This is to allow the future
removal of the mount.gfs2 helper. The journal id would instead be
directly communicated by gfs_controld to the file system. Here is a
comparison of the two systems:Current:
1. mount calls mount.gfs2
2. mount.gfs2 connects to gfs_controld to retrieve the journal id
3. mount.gfs2 adds the journal id to the mount command line and calls
the mount system call
4. gfs_controld receives the status of the mount request via a ueventProposed:
1. mount calls the mount system call (no mount.gfs2 helper)
2. gfs_controld receives a uevent for a gfs2 fs which it doesn't know
about already
3. gfs_controld assigns a journal id to it via sysfs
4. the mount system call then completes as normal (sending a uevent
according to status)The advantage of the proposed system is that it is completely backward
compatible with the current system both at the kernel and at the
userland levels. The "first" parameter can also be set the same way,
with the restriction that it must be set before the journal id is
assigned.In addition, if mount becomes stuck waiting for a reply from
gfs_controld which never arrives, then it is killable and will abort the
mount gracefully.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
23 Jul, 2010
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Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use
workqueue instead of slow-work.* Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please
note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.* Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse
21 May, 2010
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
GFS2: Fix typo
GFS2: stuck in inode wait, no glocks stuck
GFS2: Eliminate useless err variable
GFS2: Fix writing to non-page aligned gfs2_quota structures
GFS2: Add some useful messages
GFS2: fix quota state reporting
GFS2: Various gfs2_logd improvements
GFS2: glock livelock
GFS2: Clean up stuffed file copying
GFS2: docs update
GFS2: Remove space from slab cache name
14 May, 2010
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A missing ! in a test.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
06 May, 2010
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The following patch adds a message to indicate when barriers have been
disabled due to a block device which doesn't support them. You could
already tell this via the mount options in /proc/mounts, but all the
other filesystems also log a message at the same time.Also, the same mechanisms are used to indicate when the lock
demote interface has been used (only ever used for debugging)
which is a request from our support team.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
05 May, 2010
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This patch contains various tweaks to how log flushes and active item writeback
work. gfs2_logd is now managed by a waitqueue, and gfs2_log_reseve now waits
for gfs2_logd to do the log flushing. Multiple functions were rewritten to
remove the need to call gfs2_log_lock(). Instead of using one test to see if
gfs2_logd had work to do, there are now seperate tests to check if there
are two many buffers in the incore log or if there are two many items on the
active items list.This patch is a port of a patch Steve Whitehouse wrote about a year ago, with
some minor changes. Since gfs2_ail1_start always submits all the active items,
it no longer needs to keep track of the first ai submitted, so this has been
removed. In gfs2_log_reserve(), the order of the calls to
prepare_to_wait_exclusive() and wake_up() when firing off the logd thread has
been switched. If it called wake_up first there was a small window for a race,
where logd could run and return before gfs2_log_reserve was ready to get woken
up. If gfs2_logd ran, but did not free up enough blocks, gfs2_log_reserve()
would be left waiting for gfs2_logd to eventualy run because it timed out.
Finally, gt_logd_secs, which controls how long to wait before gfs2_logd times
out, and flushes the log, can now be set on mount with ar_commit.Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
30 Mar, 2010
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
08 Mar, 2010
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Constify struct sysfs_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharingSigned-off-by: Emese Revfy
Acked-by: David Teigland
Acked-by: Matt Domsch
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Acked-by: Jens Axboe
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger
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Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharingSigned-off-by: Emese Revfy
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Mar, 2010
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* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (33 commits)
quota: stop using QUOTA_OK / NO_QUOTA
dquot: cleanup dquot initialize routine
dquot: move dquot initialization responsibility into the filesystem
dquot: cleanup dquot drop routine
dquot: move dquot drop responsibility into the filesystem
dquot: cleanup dquot transfer routine
dquot: move dquot transfer responsibility into the filesystem
dquot: cleanup inode allocation / freeing routines
dquot: cleanup space allocation / freeing routines
ext3: add writepage sanity checks
ext3: Truncate allocated blocks if direct IO write fails to update i_size
quota: Properly invalidate caches even for filesystems with blocksize < pagesize
quota: generalize quota transfer interface
quota: sb_quota state flags cleanup
jbd: Delay discarding buffers in journal_unmap_buffer
ext3: quota_write cross block boundary behaviour
quota: drop permission checks from xfs_fs_set_xstate/xfs_fs_set_xquota
quota: split out compat_sys_quotactl support from quota.c
quota: split out netlink notification support from quota.c
quota: remove invalid optimization from quota_sync_all
...Fixed trivial conflicts in fs/namei.c and fs/ufs/inode.c
05 Mar, 2010
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Currenly sync_quota_sb does a lot of sync and truncate action that only
applies to "VFS" style quotas and is actively harmful for the sync
performance in XFS. Move it into vfs_quota_sync and add a wait parameter
to ->quota_sync to tell if we need it or not.My audit of the GFS2 code says it's also not needed given the way GFS2
implements quotas, but I'd be happy if this can get a detailed review.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
01 Mar, 2010
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As a consequence of the previous patch, we can now remove the
loop which used to be required due to the circular dependency
between the inodes and glocks. Instead we can just invalidate
the inodes, and then clear up any glocks which are left.Also we no longer need the rwsem since there is no longer any
danger of the inode invalidation calling back into the glock
code (and from there back into the inode code).Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
16 Dec, 2009
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Cc: Steven Whitehouse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Dec, 2009
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For some reason, the errors were not making it to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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These two functions are altered so that gfs2_quota_sync may
in future be called directly from the VFS. The GFS2 superblock
changes to a VFS super block and there is an addition of an int
argument which is currently ignored.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
09 Sep, 2009
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The /sys/fs/gfs2//lock_module/id file has been unused for
some time now, so we can remove it. We still accept the mount option
though, as userspace still sends that.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
17 Aug, 2009
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This adds a link from the per-gfs2 sb sysfs directory to
the block device upon which the filesystem is mounted. The
link is called "device", strangely enough :-)Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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With each uevent, we now always include the journal ID. We
can't call it JID since that is already in use by some of
the individual events relating to recovery, so we use
JOURNALID instead. We don't send the JOURNALID for spectator
mounts, since there isn't one.Also the ADD event now has both RDONLY and SPECTATOR information
to match that of the ONLINE event.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
14 Aug, 2009
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Although this file is only ever written and not read by
userspace, it seems that the utils are opening this
file O_RDWR, so we need to allow that.Also fixes the whitespace which seemed to be broken.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
Cc: David Teigland
26 May, 2009
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Since we can cat /proc/mounts there is no need to have this
subdirectory in the gfs2 sysfs files. In fact this does not
reflect the full range of possible mount argumenmts, where
as /proc/mounts does.There was only one userland user of this set of sysfs files
and it will function perfectly well without these files
being present (in fact that subcommand of gfs2_tool is
obsolete anyway).The tune/* subdirectory is also considered mostly obsolete,
but there are a few uses of this until mount arguments can
be added for the last few functions for which there are no
equivalents currently. However the tune/* directory is still
in my sights and new code should avoid using it. Only the gfs2_quota
and gfs2_tool programs are know to use tune/* at the moment.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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The lockstruct sub directory contained two entries, both of
which are duplicated elsewhere in the gfs2 sysfs files as
well as being available via /proc/mounts. There is no userland program
using either of them, so this patch removes them.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
19 May, 2009
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This patch fixes a race condition where we can receive recovery
requests part way through processing a umount. This was causing
problems since the recovery thread had already gone away.Looking in more detail at the recovery code, it was really trying
to implement a slight variation on a work queue, and that happens to
align nicely with the recently introduced slow-work subsystem. As a
result I've updated the code to use slow-work, rather than its own home
grown variety of work queue.When using the wait_on_bit() function, I noticed that the wait function
that was supplied as an argument was appearing in the WCHAN field, so
I've updated the function names in order to produce more meaningful
output.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
13 May, 2009
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These two tunables are pointless and would never need to be
changed anyway. There is also a race between them and umount
as the deamons which they refer to might have gone away. The
easiest way to fix the race is to remove the interface.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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It has always been possible to adjust the gfs2 log commit
interval, but only from the sysfs interface. This adds a
mount option, commit=, which will be familar to ext3
users.The sysfs interface continues to be available as well, although
this might be removed in the future.Also this patch cleans up some duplicated structures in the GFS2
sysfs code.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
24 Mar, 2009
4 commits
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This adds a sysfs file called demote_rq to GFS2's
per filesystem directory. Its possible to use this
file to demote arbitrary glocks in exactly the same
way as if a request had come in from a remote node.This is intended for testing issues relating to caching
of data under glocks. Despite that, the interface is
generic enough to send requests to any type of glock,
but be careful as its not always safe to send an
arbitrary message to an arbitrary glock. For that reason
and to prevent DoS, this interface is restricted to root
only.The messages look like this:
:
Example:
echo -n "2:13324 EX" >/sys/fs/gfs2/unity:myfs/demote_rq
Which means "please demote inode glock (type 2) number 13324 so that
I can get an EX (exclusive) lock". The lock modes are those which
would normally be sent by a remote node in its callback so if you
want to unlock a glock, you use EX, to demote to shared, use SH or PR
(depending on whether you like GFS2 or DLM lock modes better!).If the glock doesn't exist, you'll get -ENOENT returned. If the
arguments don't make sense, you'll get -EINVAL returned.The plan is that this interface will be used in combination with
the blktrace patch which I recently posted for comments although
it is, of course, still useful in its own right.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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Since we have a UUID, we ought to expose it to the user via sysfs
and uevents. We already have the fs name in both of these places
(a combination of the lock proto and lock table name) so if we add
the UUID as well, we have a full set.For older filesystems (i.e. those created before mkfs.gfs2 was writing
UUIDs by default) the sysfs file will appear zero length, and no UUID
env var will be added to the uevents.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
some time ago.
o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
more than big enough for now!)Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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Deallocation of gfs2_quota_data objects now happens on-demand through a
shrinker instead of routinely deallocating through the quotad daemon.Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
05 Jan, 2009
4 commits
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Remove code that used to have something to do with initrd
but has been unused for a long time.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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We ought to inform the user of the locktable and lockproto for each
uevent we generate.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
demote just as many glocks as required.There are potential future changes to this code, including the
possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
at the same time.This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
net loss of about 200 lines of code.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
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This patch is a clean up of gfs2_quotad prior to giving it an
extra job to do in addition to the current portfolio of updating
the quota and statfs information from time to time.As a result it has been moved into quota.c allowing one of the
functions it calls to be made static. Also the clean up allows
the two existing functions to have separate timeouts and also
to coexist with its future role of dealing with the "truncate in
progress" inode flag.The (pointless) setting of gfs2_quotad_secs is removed since we
arrange to only wake up quotad when one of the two timers expires.In addition the struct gfs2_quota_data is moved into a slab cache,
mainly for easier debugging. It should also be possible to use
a shrinker in the future, rather than the current scheme of scanning
the quota data entries from time to time.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
18 Sep, 2008
1 commit
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Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the
"noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This
patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we
simply use the VFS's atime code.The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related
mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose
the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy
atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that
variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough.Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied,
and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when
atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well.From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of
the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very
least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a
number of options which were ignored before now work correctly.Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out
early so that you can all see what my plans are.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
10 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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The ability to mark files for direct i/o access when opened
normally is both unused and pointless, so this patch removes
support for that feature.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
27 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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There are several reasons why this is undesirable:
1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
to be a black art.
5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
contribute to solving the problem on average.So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse