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2008-04-18[XFS] Use power-of-2 sized buffers to reduce overheadDavid Chinner
Now that the ktrace_enter() code is using atomics, the non-power-of-2 buffer sizes - which require modulus operations to get the index - are showing up as using substantial CPU in the profiles. Force the buffer sizes to be rounded up to the nearest power of two and use masking rather than modulus operations to convert the index counter to the buffer index. This reduces ktrace_enter overhead to 8% of a CPU time, and again almost halves the trace intensive test runtime. SGI-PV: 977546 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30538a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Use atomic counters for ktrace buffer indexesDavid Chinner
ktrace_enter() is consuming vast amounts of CPU time due to the use of a single global lock for protecting buffer index increments. Change it to use per-buffer atomic counters - this reduces ktrace_enter() overhead during a trace intensive test on a 4p machine from 58% of all CPU time to 12% and halves test runtime. SGI-PV: 977546 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30537a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Update c/mtime correctly on truncatesDavid Chinner
XFS changes the c/mtime of an inode when truncating it to the same size. The c/mtime is only supposed to change if the size is changed. Not to be confused with ftruncate, where the c/mtime is supposed to be changed even if the size is not changed. The Linux VFS encodes this semantic difference in the flags it sends down to ->setattr, which XFS currently ignores. We need to make XFS pay attention to the VFS flags and hence Do The Right Thing. SGI-PV: 977547 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30536a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] don't encode parent in nfs filehandles unless nessecaryChristoph Hellwig
As Dave pointed out after the export ops changes we now always encode the parent into the filehandle for regular files, but it's not actually needed when the filesystem is export with no_subtree_check. This one-liner fixes xfs_fs_encode_fh to skip encoding the parent unless nessecary. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30535a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] kill xfs_rwlock/xfs_rwunlockChristoph Hellwig
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>
2008-04-18[XFS] kill xfs_get_dir_entryChristoph Hellwig
Instead of of xfs_get_dir_entry use a macro to get the xfs_inode from the dentry in the callers and grab the reference manually. Only grab the reference once as it's fine to keep it over the dmapi calls. (And even that reference is actually superflous in Linux but I'll leave that for another patch) SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30531a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] vnode cleanup in xfs_fs_subr.cChristoph Hellwig
Cleanup the unneeded intermediate vnode step in the flushing helpers and go directly from the xfs_inode to the struct address_space. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30530a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] cleanup xfs_vn_mknodChristoph Hellwig
- use proper goto based unwinding instead of the current mess of multiple conditionals - rename ip to inode because that's the normal convention for Linux inodes while ip is the convention for xfs_inodes - remove unlikely checks for the default_acl - branches marked unlikely might lead to extreme branch bredictor slowdons if taken and for some workloads a default acl is quite common - properly indent the switch statements - remove xfs_has_fs_struct as nfsd has a fs_struct in any semi-recent kernel SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30529a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Use atomics for iclog reference countingDavid Chinner
Now that we update the log tail LSN less frequently on transaction completion, we pass the contention straight to the global log state lock (l_iclog_lock) during transaction completion. We currently have to take this lock to decrement the iclog reference count. there is a reference count on each iclog, so we need to take þhe global lock for all refcount changes. When large numbers of processes are all doing small trnasctions, the iclog reference counts will be quite high, and the state change that absolutely requires the l_iclog_lock is the except rather than the norm. Change the reference counting on the iclogs to use atomic_inc/dec so that we can use atomic_dec_and_lock during transaction completion and avoid the need for grabbing the l_iclog_lock for every reference count decrement except the one that matters - the last. SGI-PV: 975671 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30505a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Prevent AIL lock contention during transaction completionDavid Chinner
When hundreds of processors attempt to commit transactions at the same time, they can contend on the AIL lock when updating the tail LSN held in the in-core log structure. At the moment, the tail LSN is only needed when actually writing out an iclog, so it really does not need to be updated on every single transaction completion - only those that result in switching iclogs and flushing them to disk. The result is that we reduce the number of times we need to grab the AIL lock and the log grant lock by up to two orders of magnitude on large processor count machines. The problem has previously been hidden by AIL lock contention walking the AIL list which was recently solved and uncovered this issue. SGI-PV: 975671 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30504a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Use xfs_inode_clean() in more placesDavid Chinner
Remove open coded checks for the whether the inode is clean and replace them with an inlined function. SGI-PV: 977461 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30503a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Remove the xfs_icluster structureDavid Chinner
Remove the xfs_icluster structure and replace with a radix tree lookup. We don't need to keep a list of inodes in each cluster around anymore as we can look them up quickly when we need to. The only time we need to do this now is during inode writeback. Factor the inode cluster writeback code out of xfs_iflush and convert it to use radix_tree_gang_lookup() instead of walking a list of inodes built when we first read in the inodes. This remove 3 pointers from each xfs_inode structure and the xfs_icluster structure per inode cluster. Hence we reduce the cache footprint of the xfs_inodes by between 5-10% depending on cluster sparseness. To be truly efficient we need a radix_tree_gang_lookup_range() call to stop searching once we are past the end of the cluster instead of trying to find a full cluster's worth of inodes. Before (ia64): $ cat /sys/slab/xfs_inode/object_size 536 After: $ cat /sys/slab/xfs_inode/object_size 512 SGI-PV: 977460 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30502a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Don't block pdflush when writing back inodesDavid Chinner
When pdflush is writing back inodes, it can get stuck on inode cluster buffers that are currently under I/O. This occurs when we write data to multiple inodes in the same inode cluster at the same time. Effectively, delayed allocation marks the inode dirty during the data writeback. Hence if the inode cluster was flushed during the writeback of the first inode, the writeback of the second inode will block waiting for the inode cluster write to complete before writing it again for the newly dirtied inode. Basically, we want to avoid this from happening so we don't block pdflush and slow down all of writeback. Hence we introduce a non-blocking async inode flush flag that pdflush uses. If this flag is set, we use non-blocking operations (e.g. try locks) whereever we can to avoid blocking or extra I/O being issued. SGI-PV: 970925 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30501a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Factor xfs_itobp() and xfs_inotobp().David Chinner
The only difference between the functions is one passes an inode for the lookup, the other passes an inode number. However, they don't do the same validity checking or set all the same state on the buffer that is returned yet they should. Factor the functions into a common implementation. SGI-PV: 970925 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30500a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Fix regression due to refcache removalLachlan McIlroy
SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30490a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Remove the xfs_refcacheDonald Douwsma
Remove the xfs_refcache, it was only needed while we were still building for 2.4 kernels. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30472a Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] make inode reclaim synchronise with xfs_iflush_done()Lachlan McIlroy
On a forced shutdown, xfs_finish_reclaim() will skip flushing the inode. If the inode flush lock is not already held and there is an outstanding xfs_iflush_done() then we might free the inode prematurely. By acquiring and releasing the flush lock we will synchronise with xfs_iflush_done(). SGI-PV: 909874 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30468a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] actually check error returned by xfs_flush_pages, clean up andNiv Sardi
bailout if fails. SGI-PV: 973041 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30462a Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] Ensure "both" features2 slots are consistentEric Sandeen
Since older kernels may look in the sb_bad_features2 slot for flags, rather than zeroing it out on fixup, we should make it equal to the sb_features2 value. Also, if the ATTR2 flag was not found prior to features2 fixup, it was not set in the mount flags, so re-check after the fixup so that the current session will use the feature. Also fix up the comments to reflect these changes. SGI-PV: 980085 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30778a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] Fix superblock features2 field alignment problemDavid Chinner
Due to the xfs_dsb_t structure not being 64 bit aligned, the last field of the on-disk superblock can vary in location This causes problems when the filesystem gets moved to a different platform, or there is a 32 bit userspace and 64 bit kernel. This patch detects the defect at mount time, logs a warning such as: XFS: correcting sb_features alignment problem in dmesg and corrects the problem so that everything is OK. it also blacklists the bad field in the superblock so it does not get used for something else later on. SGI-PV: 977636 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30539a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-10[XFS] remove shouting-indirection macros from xfs_sb.hEric Sandeen
Remove macro-to-small-function indirection from xfs_sb.h, and remove some which are completely unused. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30528a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-03-06[XFS] fix inode leak in xfs_iget_core()David Chinner
If the radix_tree_preload() fails, we need to destroy the inode we just read in before trying again. This could leak xfs_vnode structures when there is memory pressure. Noticed by Christoph Hellwig. SGI-PV: 977823 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30606a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-03-06[XFS] 977545 977545 977545 977545 977545 977545 xfsaild causing too manyDavid Chinner
wakeups Idle state is not being detected properly by the xfsaild push code. The current idle state is detected by an empty list which may never happen with mostly idle filesystem or one using lazy superblock counters. A single dirty item in the list that exists beyond the push target can result repeated looping attempting to push up to the target because it fails to check if the push target has been acheived or not. Fix by considering a dirty list with everything past the target as an idle state and set the timeout appropriately. SGI-PV: 977545 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30532a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-28[XFS] If you mount an XFS filesystem with no mount options at all, thenJosef Jeff Sipek
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>
2008-02-26[XFS] Undo bit ops cleanup mod due to regression on 32-bit powermacLachlan McIlroy
platform. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30559a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-26[XFS] Undo bit ops cleanup mod due to regression on 32-bit powermacLachlan McIlroy
platform. SGI-PV: 974005 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30558a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-22Remove empty file fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6.Lachlan McIlroy
2008-02-18Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into ↵Lachlan McIlroy
for-linus
2008-02-18[XFS] Added quota targets and removed dmapi directoryLachlan McIlroy
Fixes build failures introduced by bad merge to mainline.
2008-02-18[XFS] Fix up xfs out-of-tree builds. (a.k.a. external modules)Eric Sandeen
Change -I include directives to find headers in the out-of-tree spot. This allows a directory containing only xfs files to be built as: SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29878a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-18[XFS] Remove Makefile wrappers in XFSAndi Kleen
Makefile (and Kbuild) would include Makefile-linux-26 I doubt XFS will really still compile on 2.4; so drop that. This moves Makefile-linux-26 into Makefile and drops Kbuild. Also having wrappers as both Kbuild and Makefile seemed redundant anyways. The patch is relatively large because it renames a file, but no functional changes. SGI-PV: 971050 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29781a Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-14Introduce path_put()Jan Blunck
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order * Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path) * Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14Embed a struct path into struct nameidata instead of nd->{dentry,mnt}Jan Blunck
This is the central patch of a cleanup series. In most cases there is no good reason why someone would want to use a dentry for itself. This series reflects that fact and embeds a struct path into nameidata. Together with the other patches of this series - it enforced the correct order of getting/releasing the reference count on <dentry,vfsmount> pairs - it prepares the VFS for stacking support since it is essential to have a struct path in every place where the stack can be traversed - it reduces the overall code size: without patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5321639 858418 715768 6895825 6938d1 vmlinux with patch series: text data bss dec hex filename 5320026 858418 715768 6894212 693284 vmlinux This patch: Switch from nd->{dentry,mnt} to nd->path.{dentry,mnt} everywhere. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix smack] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-13xfs: convert beX_add to beX_add_cpu (new common API)Marcin Slusarz
remove beX_add functions and replace all uses with beX_add_cpu Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (62 commits) [XFS] add __init/__exit mark to specific init/cleanup functions [XFS] Fix oops in xfs_file_readdir() [XFS] kill xfs_root [XFS] keep i_nlink updated and use proper accessors [XFS] stop updating inode->i_blocks [XFS] Make xfs_ail_check check less by default [XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own thread [XFS] use generic_permission [XFS] stop re-checking permissions in xfs_swapext [XFS] clean up xfs_swapext [XFS] remove permission check from xfs_change_file_space [XFS] prevent panic during log recovery due to bogus op_hdr length [XFS] Cleanup various fid related bits: [XFS] Fix xfs_lowbit64 [XFS] Remove CFORK macros and use code directly in IFORK and DFORK macros. [XFS] kill superflous buffer locking (2nd attempt) [XFS] Use kernel-supplied "roundup_pow_of_two" for simplicity [XFS] Remove the BPCSHIFT and NB* based macros from XFS. [XFS] Remove bogus assert [XFS] optimize XFS_IS_REALTIME_INODE w/o realtime config ...
2008-02-07[XFS] add __init/__exit mark to specific init/cleanup functionsLachlan McIlroy
SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30459a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Fix oops in xfs_file_readdir()David Chinner
When xfs_file_readdir() exactly fills a buffer, it can move it's index past the end of the buffer and dereference it even though the result of the dereference is never used. On some platforms this causes an oops. SGI-PV: 976923 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30458a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] kill xfs_rootChristoph Hellwig
The only caller (xfs_fs_fill_super) can simplify call igrab on the root inode. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30393a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] keep i_nlink updated and use proper accessorsChristoph Hellwig
To get the read-only bind mounts in -mm to work correctly with XFS we need to call the drop_nlink and inc_nlink helpers to monitor the link count. Add calls to these to xfs_bumplink and xfs_droplink and stop copying over di_nlink to i_nlink in xfs_validate_fields and vn_revalidate. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30392a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] stop updating inode->i_blocksChristoph Hellwig
The VFS doesn't use i_blocks, it's only used by generic_fillattr and the generic quota code which XFS doesn't use. In XFS there is one use to check whether we have an inline or out of line sumlink, but we can replace that with a check of the XFS_IFINLINE inode flag. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30391a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Make xfs_ail_check check less by defaultDavid Chinner
Checking the entire AIL on every insert and remove is prohibitively expensive - the sustained sequntial create rate on a single disk drops from about 1800/s to 60/s because of this checking resulting in the xfslogd becoming cpu bound. By default on debug builds, only check the next and previous entries in the list to ensure they are ordered correctly. If you really want, define XFS_TRANS_DEBUG to use the old behaviour. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30372a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own threadDavid Chinner
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>
2008-02-07[XFS] use generic_permissionChristoph Hellwig
Now that all direct caller of xfs_iaccess are gone we can kill xfs_iaccess and xfs_access and just use generic_permission with a check_acl callback. This is required for the per-mount read-only patchset in -mm to work properly with XFS. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30370a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] stop re-checking permissions in xfs_swapextChristoph Hellwig
xfs_swapext should simplify check if we have a writeable file descriptor instead of re-checking the permissions using xfs_iaccess. Add an additional check to refuse O_APPEND file descriptors because swapext is not an append-only write operation. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30369a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] clean up xfs_swapextChristoph Hellwig
- stop using vnodes - use proper multiple label goto unwinding - give the struct file * variables saner names SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30366a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] remove permission check from xfs_change_file_spaceChristoph Hellwig
Both callers of xfs_change_file_space alreaedy do the file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE check to ensure we have a file descriptor that has been opened for write mode, so there is no need to re-check that with xfs_iaccess. Especially as the later might wrongly deny it for corner cases like file descriptor passing through unix domain sockets. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30365a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] prevent panic during log recovery due to bogus op_hdr lengthLachlan McIlroy
A problem was reported where a system panicked in log recovery due to a corrupt log record. The cause of the corruption is not known but this change will at least prevent a crash for this specific scenario. Log recovery definitely needs some more work in this area. SGI-PV: 974151 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30318a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-02-07[XFS] Cleanup various fid related bits:Christoph Hellwig
- merge xfs_fid2 into it's only caller xfs_dm_inode_to_fh. - remove xfs_vget and opencode it in the two callers, simplifying both of them by avoiding the awkward calling convetion. - assign directly to the dm_fid_t members in various places in the dmapi code instead of casting them to xfs_fid_t first (which is identical to dm_fid_t) SGI-PV: 974747 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30258a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Fix xfs_lowbit64David Chinner
xfs_lowbit64 was broken on 32 bit platforms in a recent cleanup of the xfs bitops. Fix it back up again. SGI-PV: 974005 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30202a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Remove CFORK macros and use code directly in IFORK and DFORK macros.Christoph Hellwig
Currently XFS_IFORK_* and XFS_DFORK* are implemented by means of XFS_CFORK* macros. But given that XFS_IFORK_* operates on an xfs_inode that embedds and xfs_icdinode_core and XFS_DFORK_* operates on an xfs_dinode that embedds a xfs_dinode_core one will have to do endian swapping while the other doesn't. Instead of having the current mess with the CFORK macros that have byteswapping and non-byteswapping version (which are inconsistantly named while we're at it) just define each family of the macros to stand by itself and simplify the whole matter. A few direct references to the CFORK variants were cleaned up to use IFORK or DFORK to make this possible. SGI-PV: 971186 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30163a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>