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The only thing left are the forced shutdown flags and freeze macros which
fit into xfs_mount.h much better.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
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No need to parse the mount option into a structure before applying it to
struct xfs_mount.
The content of xfs_start_flags gets merged into xfs_parseargs. Calls
inbetween don't care and can use mount members instead of the args struct.
This patch uncovered that the mount option for shared filesystems wasn't
ever exposed on Linux. The code to handle it is #if 0'ed in this patch
pending a decision on this feature. I'll send a writeup about it to the
list soon.
SGI-PV: 987246
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32371a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Bring the ail lock inside the struct xfs_ail. This means the AIL can be
entirely manipulated via the struct xfs_ail rather than needing both the
struct xfs_mount and the struct xfs_ail.
SGI-PV: 988143
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32350a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Rather than embedding the struct xfs_ail in the struct xfs_mount, allocate
it during AIL initialisation. Add a back pointer to the struct xfs_ail so
that we can pass around the xfs_ail and still be able to access the
xfs_mount if need be. This is th first step involved in isolating the AIL
implementation from the surrounding filesystem code.
SGI-PV: 988143
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32346a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Now that the deleted inodes list is unused, kill it. This also removes the
i_reclaim list head from the xfs_inode, shrinking it by two pointers.
SGI-PV: 988142
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32334a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Kill the unused arg in xfs_syncsub() and xfs_sync_inodes(). For callers of
xfs_syncsub() that only want to flush inodes, replace xfs_syncsub() with
direct calls to xfs_sync_inodes() as that is all that is being done with
the specific flags being passed in.
SGI-PV: 988140
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32305a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Now we've removed all users of the mount inode list, we can kill it. This
reduces the size of the xfs_inode by 2 pointers.
SGI-PV: 988139
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32293a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Clean up the way the maximum and minimum records for the btree blocks are
calculated. For the alloc and inobt btrees all the values are
pre-calculated in xfs_mount_common, and we switch the current loop around
the ugly generic macros that use cpp token pasting to generate type names
to two small helpers in normal C code. For the bmbt and bmdr trees these
helpers also exist, but can be called during runtime, too. Here we also
kill various macros dealing with them and inline the logic into the
get_minrecs / get_maxrecs / get_dmaxrecs methods in xfs_bmap_btree.c.
Note that all these new helpers take an xfs_mount * argument which will be
needed to determine the size of a btree block once we add support for
extended btree blocks with CRCs and other RAS information.
SGI-PV: 988146
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32292a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Move all the xfssyncd code to the new xfs_sync.c file. This places it
closer to the actual code that it interacts with, rather than just being
associated with high level VFS code.
SGI-PV: 988139
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32283a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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SGI-PV: 986558
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32231a
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 981498
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32002a
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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xfs_unmounts can't and shouldn't return errors so declare it as returning
void.
SGI-PV: 981498
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31833a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Remove all the useless flags and code keyed off it in xfs_mountfs.
SGI-PV: 981498
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31831a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Currently the xfs module init/exit code is a mess. It's farmed out over a
lot of function with very little error checking. This patch makes sure we
propagate all initialization failures properly and clean up after them.
Various runtime initializations are replaced with compile-time
initializations where possible to make this easier. The exit path is
similarly consolidated.
There's now split out function to create/destroy the kmem zones and
alloc/free the trace buffers. I've also changed the ktrace allocations to
KM_MAYFAIL and handled errors resulting from that.
And yes, we really should replace the XFS_*_TRACE ifdefs with a single
XFS_TRACE..
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31354a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Adds two pieces of functionality for the basis of case-insensitive support
in XFS:
1. A comparison result enumerated type: xfs_dacmp. It represents an
exact match, case-insensitive match or no match at all. This patch
only implements different and exact results.
2. xfs_nameops vector for specifying how to perform the hash generation
of filenames and comparision methods. In this patch the hash vector
points to the existing xfs_da_hashname function and the comparison
method does a length compare, and if the same, does a memcmp and
return the xfs_dacmp result.
All filename functions that use the hash (create, lookup remove, rename,
etc) now use the xfs_nameops.hashname function and all directory lookup
functions also use the xfs_nameops.compname function.
The lookup functions also handle case-insensitive results even though the
default comparison function cannot return that. And important aspect of
the lookup functions is that an exact match always has precedence over a
case-insensitive. So while a case-insensitive match is found, we have to
keep looking just in case there is an exact match. In the meantime, the
info for the first case-insensitive match is retained if no exact match is
found.
SGI-PV: 981519
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31205a
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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xfs_mount_init is inlined into xfs_fs_fill_super and allocation switched
to kzalloc. Plug a leak of the mount structure for most early mount
failures. Move xfs_icsb_init_counters to as late as possible in the mount
path and make sure to undo it so that no stale hotplug cpu notifiers are
left around on mount failures.
SGI-PV: 981951
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31196a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Currently closing the rt/log block device is done in the wrong spot, and
far too early. So revampt it:
- xfs_blkdev_put moved out of xfs_free_buftarg into the caller so that
it is done after tearing down the buftarg completely.
- call to xfs_unmountfs_close moved from xfs_mountfs into caller so
that it's done after tearing down the filesystem completely.
- xfs_unmountfs_close is renamed to xfs_close_devices and made static
in xfs_super.c
- opening of the block devices is split into a helper xfs_open_devices
that is symetric in use to xfs_close_devices
- xfs_unmountfs can now lose struct cred
- error handling around device opening sanitized in xfs_fs_fill_super
SGI-PV: 981951
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31193a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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features2 fields.
Previously, mounting with noattr2 failed to achieve anything because
although it cleared the attr2 mount flag, it would set it again as soon as
it processed the superblock fields. The fix now has an explicit noattr2
flag and uses it later to fix up the versionnum and features2 fields.
SGI-PV: 980021
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31003a
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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xfs_reserve_blocks() calls xfs_icsb_sync_counters_locked(), which is not
defined if !CONFIG_SMP/!HAVE_PERCPU_SB
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30991a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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With the last two patches XFS_ICSB_SB_LOCKED is never checked and only
superflously passed to xfs_icsb_count, so kill it.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30920a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Add a new xfs_icsb_sync_counters_locked for the case where m_sb_lock
is already taken and add a flags argument to xfs_icsb_sync_counters so
that xfs_icsb_sync_counters_flags is not needed.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30917a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30804a
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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Replace the xfs_ail_entry_t with a struct list_head and clean the
surrounding code up. Also fixes a livelock in xfs_trans_first_push_ail()
by terminating the loop at the head of the list correctly.
SGI-PV: 978682
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30636a
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30545a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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We can just use xfs_ilock/xfs_iunlock instead and get rid of the ugly
bhv_vrwlock_t.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30533a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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the "ikeep" option is set rather than "noikeep".
This regression was introduced in 970451.
With no mount options specified, xfs_parseargs() does the following:
int ikeep = 0;
args->flags |= XFSMNT_BARRIER;
args->flags2 |= XFSMNT2_COMPAT_IOSIZE;
if (!options)
goto done;
It only sets the above two options by default and before, it also used to
set XFSMNT_IDELETE by default.
If options are specified, then
if (!(args->flags & XFSMNT_DMAPI) && !ikeep)
args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE;
is executed later on which is skipped by the "goto done;" above.
The solution is to invert the logic.
SGI-PV: 977771
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30590a
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous
transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we
can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL
lock.
The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by
the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It
really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a
single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that
pretty much any disk subsystem can handle.
So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move
the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to
push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the
push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space
to become available in the log.
This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters
will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push
first" order.
Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more
effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from
loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the
list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every
time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try
to lock and/or push items that we cannot move.
Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the
AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list
contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would
cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate
the structure from unbounded parallelism here.
SGI-PV: 972759
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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xfs_iocore_t is a structure embedded in xfs_inode. Except for one field it
just duplicates fields already in xfs_inode, and there is nothing this
abstraction buys us on XFS/Linux. This patch removes it and shrinks source
and binary size of xfs aswell as shrinking the size of xfs_inode by 60/44
bytes in debug/non-debug builds.
SGI-PV: 970852
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29754a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Switch last couple lock_t's to spinlock_t's. Remove now-unused
spinlock-related macros & types.
SGI-PV: 970382
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29748a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Un-obfuscate XFS_SB_LOCK, remove XFS_SB_LOCK->mutex_lock->spin_lock
macros, call spin_lock directly, remove extraneous cookie holdover from
old xfs code, and change lock type to spinlock_t.
SGI-PV: 970382
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29746a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 970382
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29739a
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Currently there is an indirection called ioops in the XFS data I/O path.
Various functions are called by functions pointers, but there is no
coherence in what this is for, and of course for XFS itself it's entirely
unused. This patch removes it instead and significantly reduces source and
binary size of XFS while making maintaince easier.
SGI-PV: 970841
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29737a
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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m_growlock only needs plain binary mutex semantics, so use a struct mutex
instead of a semaphore for it.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29512a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Now that struct bhv_vfs doesn't have any members left we can kill it and
go directly from the super_block to the xfs_mount everywhere.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29509a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29508a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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All flags are added to xfs_mount's m_flag instead. Note that the 32bit
inode flag was duplicated in both of them, but only cleared in the mount
when it was not nessecary due to the filesystem beeing small enough. Two
flags are still required here - one to indicate the mount option setting,
and one to indicate if it applies or not.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29507a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Also remove the now dead behavior code.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29505a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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All vfs ops now take struct xfs_mount pointers and the behaviour related
glue is split out into methods of its own.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29504a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Mount options are now parsed by the main XFS module and rejected if quota
support is not available, and there are some new quota operation for the
quotactl syscall and calls to quote in the mount, unmount and sync
callchains.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29503a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Mount options are now parsed by the main XFS module and rejected if dmapi
support is not available, and there is a new dm operation to send the
mount event.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29502a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Now that struct bhv_vnode is empty we can just kill it. Retain bhv_vnode_t
as a typedef for struct inode for the time being until all the fallout is
cleaned up.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29500a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29493a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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One of the perpetual scaling problems XFS has is indexing it's incore
inodes. We currently uses hashes and the default hash sizes chosen can
only ever be a tradeoff between memory consumption and the maximum
realistic size of the cache.
As a result, anyone who has millions of inodes cached on a filesystem
needs to tunes the size of the cache via the ihashsize mount option to
allow decent scalability with inode cache operations.
A further problem is the separate inode cluster hash, whose size is based
on the ihashsize but is smaller, and so under certain conditions (sparse
cluster cache population) this can become a limitation long before the
inode hash is causing issues.
The following patchset removes the inode hash and cluster hash and
replaces them with radix trees to avoid the scalability limitations of the
hashes. It also reduces the size of the inodes by 3 pointers....
SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29481a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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Creates a new xfs_dsb_t that is __be annotated and keeps xfs_sb_t for the
incore one. xfs_xlatesb is renamed to xfs_sb_to_disk and only handles the
incore -> disk conversion. A new helper xfs_sb_from_disk handles the other
direction and doesn't need the slightly hacky table-driven approach
because we only ever read the full sb from disk.
The handling of shared r/o filesystems has been buggy on little endian
system and fixing this required shuffling around of some code in that
area.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29477a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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m_nreadaheads in the mount struct is never used; remove it and the various
macros assigned to it. Also remove a couple other unused macros in the
same areas.
Removes one user of xfs_physmem.
SGI-PV: 968563
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29322a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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In media spaces, video is often stored in a frame-per-file format. When
dealing with uncompressed realtime HD video streams in this format, it is
crucial that files do not get fragmented and that multiple files a placed
contiguously on disk.
When multiple streams are being ingested and played out at the same time,
it is critical that the filesystem does not cross the streams and
interleave them together as this creates seek and readahead cache miss
latency and prevents both ingest and playout from meeting frame rate
targets.
This patch set creates a "stream of files" concept into the allocator to
place all the data from a single stream contiguously on disk so that RAID
array readahead can be used effectively. Each additional stream gets
placed in different allocation groups within the filesystem, thereby
ensuring that we don't cross any streams. When an AG fills up, we select a
new AG for the stream that is not in use.
The core of the functionality is the stream tracking - each inode that we
create in a directory needs to be associated with the directories' stream.
Hence every time we create a file, we look up the directories' stream
object and associate the new file with that object.
Once we have a stream object for a file, we use the AG that the stream
object point to for allocations. If we can't allocate in that AG (e.g. it
is full) we move the entire stream to another AG. Other inodes in the same
stream are moved to the new AG on their next allocation (i.e. lazy
update).
Stream objects are kept in a cache and hold a reference on the inode.
Hence the inode cannot be reclaimed while there is an outstanding stream
reference. This means that on unlink we need to remove the stream
association and we also need to flush all the associations on certain
events that want to reclaim all unreferenced inodes (e.g. filesystem
freeze).
SGI-PV: 964469
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29096a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
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When we have a couple of hundred transactions on the fly at once, they all
typically modify the on disk superblock in some way.
create/unclink/mkdir/rmdir modify inode counts, allocation/freeing modify
free block counts.
When these counts are modified in a transaction, they must eventually lock
the superblock buffer and apply the mods. The buffer then remains locked
until the transaction is committed into the incore log buffer. The result
of this is that with enough transactions on the fly the incore superblock
buffer becomes a bottleneck.
The result of contention on the incore superblock buffer is that
transaction rates fall - the more pressure that is put on the superblock
buffer, the slower things go.
The key to removing the contention is to not require the superblock fields
in question to be locked. We do that by not marking the superblock dirty
in the transaction. IOWs, we modify the incore superblock but do not
modify the cached superblock buffer. In short, we do not log superblock
modifications to critical fields in the superblock on every transaction.
In fact we only do it just before we write the superblock to disk every
sync period or just before unmount.
This creates an interesting problem - if we don't log or write out the
fields in every transaction, then how do the values get recovered after a
crash? the answer is simple - we keep enough duplicate, logged information
in other structures that we can reconstruct the correct count after log
recovery has been performed.
It is the AGF and AGI structures that contain the duplicate information;
after recovery, we walk every AGI and AGF and sum their individual
counters to get the correct value, and we do a transaction into the log to
correct them. An optimisation of this is that if we have a clean unmount
record, we know the value in the superblock is correct, so we can avoid
the summation walk under normal conditions and so mount/recovery times do
not change under normal operation.
One wrinkle that was discovered during development was that the blocks
used in the freespace btrees are never accounted for in the AGF counters.
This was once a valid optimisation to make; when the filesystem is full,
the free space btrees are empty and consume no space. Hence when it
matters, the "accounting" is correct. But that means the when we do the
AGF summations, we would not have a correct count and xfs_check would
complain. Hence a new counter was added to track the number of blocks used
by the free space btrees. This is an *on-disk format change*.
As a result of this, lazy superblock counters are a mkfs option and at the
moment on linux there is no way to convert an old filesystem. This is
possible - xfs_db can be used to twiddle the right bits and then
xfs_repair will do the format conversion for you. Similarly, you can
convert backwards as well. At some point we'll add functionality to
xfs_admin to do the bit twiddling easily....
SGI-PV: 964999
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28652a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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When growing a filesystem we don't check to see if the new size overflows
the page cache index range, so we can do silly things like grow a
filesystem page 16TB on a 32bit. Check new filesystem sizes against the
limits the kernel can support.
SGI-PV: 957886
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28563a
Signed-Off-By: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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After filesystem recovery the superblock is re-read to bring in any
changes. If the per-cpu superblock counters are not re-initialized from
the superblock then the next time the per-cpu counters are disabled they
might overwrite the global counter with a bogus value.
SGI-PV: 957348
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27999a
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
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