Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles
to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order.
The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time
in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list
to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush.
We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in
the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback
without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the
log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending
disk address offset order so will be very efficient.
Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit
or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the
inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or
unlogged metadata changes.
However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this -
there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the
timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a
new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes,
and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
xfs_truncate_file is only used for truncating quota files. Move it to
xfs_qm_syscalls.c so it can be marked static and take advatange of the
fact by removing the unused page cache validation and taking the iget
into the helper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Currently we need to either call IHOLD or xfs_trans_ihold on an inode when
joining it to a transaction via xfs_trans_ijoin.
This patches instead makes xfs_trans_ijoin usable on it's own by doing
an implicity xfs_trans_ihold, which also allows us to drop the third
argument. For the case where we want to hold a reference on the inode
a xfs_trans_ijoin_ref wrapper is added which does the IHOLD and marks
the inode for needing an xfs_iput. In addition to the cleaner interface
to the caller this also simplifies the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.
This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead. If we'll ever get HSM
support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
is much help for future work.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Kill the quota ops function vector and replace it with direct calls or
stubs in the CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n case.
Make sure we check XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING in the right spots. We can remove
the number of those checks because the XFS_TRANS_DQ_DIRTY flag can't be set
otherwise.
This brings us back closer to the way this code worked in IRIX and earlier
Linux versions, but we keep a lot of the more useful factoring of common
code.
Eventually we should also kill xfs_qm_bhv.c, but that's left for a later
patch.
Reduces the size of the source code by about 250 lines and the size of
XFS module by about 1.5 kilobytes with quotas enabled:
text data bss dec hex filename
615957 2960 3848 622765 980ad fs/xfs/xfs.o
617231 3152 3848 624231 98667 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old
Fallout:
- xfs_qm_dqattach is split into xfs_qm_dqattach_locked which expects
the inode locked and xfs_qm_dqattach which does the locking around it,
thus removing XFS_QMOPT_ILOCKED.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
These names don't add any value at all over just using the numerical
values.
(First sent on October 9th)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
When an I/O error occurs during an intermediate commit on a rolling
transaction, xfs_trans_commit() will free the transaction structure
and the related ticket. However, the duplicate transaction that
gets used as the transaction continues still contains a pointer
to the ticket. Hence when the duplicate transaction is cancelled
and freed, we free the ticket a second time.
Add reference counting to the ticket so that we hold an extra
reference to the ticket over the transaction commit. We drop the
extra reference once we have checked that the transaction commit
did not return an error, thus avoiding a double free on commit
error.
Credit to Nick Piggin for tripping over the problem.
SGI-PV: 989741
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
In several places we directly convert from the XFS inode
to the linux (VFS) inode by a simple deference of ip->i_vnode.
We should not do this - a helper function should be used to
extract the VFS inode from the XFS inode.
Introduce the function VFS_I() to extract the VFS inode
from the XFS inode. The name was chosen to match XFS_I() which
is used to extract the XFS inode from the VFS inode.
SGI-PV: 981498
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31720a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
->rename already gets the target inode passed if it exits. Pass it down to
xfs_rename so that we can avoid looking it up again. Also simplify locking
as the first lock section in xfs_rename can go away now: the isdir is an
invariant over the lifetime of the inode, and new_parent and the nlink
check are namespace topology protected by i_mutex in the VFS. The projid
check needs to move into the second lock section anyway to not be racy.
Also kill the now unused xfs_dir_lookup_int and remove the now-unused
first_locked argumet to xfs_lock_inodes.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30903a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
The writer field is not needed for non_DEBU builds so remove it. While
we're at i also clean up the interface for is locked asserts to go through
and xfs_iget.c helper with an interface like the xfs_ilock routines to
isolated the XFS codebase from mrlock internals. That way we can kill
mrlock_t entirely once rw_semaphores grow an islocked facility. Also
remove unused flags to the ilock family of functions.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30902a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Simplify vnode tracing calls by embedding function name & return addr in
the calling macro.
Also do a lot of vnode->inode renaming for consistency, while we're at it.
SGI-PV: 970335
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29650a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
struct bhv_vnode is on it's way out, so move the trace buffer to the XFS
inode. Note that this makes the tracing macros rather misnamed, but this
kind of fallout will be fixed up incrementally later on.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29498a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
All vnode ops now take struct xfs_inode pointers and the behaviour related
glue is split out into methods of it's own. This required fixing
xfs_create/mkdir/symlink to not mess with the inode pointer but rather use
a separate boolean for error handling. Thanks to Dave Chinner for that
fix.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29492a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
This patch handles error return values in fs_flush_pages and
fs_flushinval_pages. It changes the prototype of fs_flushinval_pages so we
can propogate the errors and handle them at higher layers. I also modified
xfs_itruncate_start so that it could propogate the error further.
SGI-PV: 961990
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28231a
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@flamingspork.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
