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2012-01-17xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlockChristoph Hellwig
We almost never block on i_flock, the exception is synchronous inode flushing. Instead of bloating the inode with a 16/24-byte completion that we abuse as a semaphore just implement it as a bitlock that uses a bit waitqueue for the rare sleeping path. This primarily is a tradeoff between a much smaller inode and a faster non-blocking path vs faster wakeups, and we are much better off with the former. A small downside is that we will lose lockdep checking for i_flock, but given that it's always taken inside the ilock that should be acceptable. Note that for example the inode writeback locking is implemented in a very similar way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (22 commits) xfs: mark the xfssyncd workqueue as non-reentrant xfs: simplify xfs_qm_detach_gdquots xfs: fix acl count validation in xfs_acl_from_disk() xfs: remove unused XBT_FORCE_SLEEP bit xfs: remove XFS_QMOPT_DQSUSER xfs: kill xfs_qm_idtodq xfs: merge xfs_qm_dqinit_core into the only caller xfs: add a xfs_dqhold helper xfs: simplify xfs_qm_dqattach_grouphint xfs: nest qm_dqfrlist_lock inside the dquot qlock xfs: flatten the dquot lock ordering xfs: implement lazy removal for the dquot freelist xfs: remove XFS_DQ_INACTIVE xfs: cleanup xfs_qm_dqlookup xfs: cleanup dquot locking helpers xfs: remove the sync_mode argument to xfs_qm_dqflush_all xfs: remove xfs_qm_sync xfs: make sure to really flush all dquots in xfs_qm_quotacheck xfs: untangle SYNC_WAIT and SYNC_TRYLOCK meanings for xfs_qm_dqflush xfs: remove the lid_size field in struct log_item_desc ... Fix up trivial conflict in fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c
2011-12-23xfs: log all dirty inodes in xfs_fs_sync_fsChristoph Hellwig
Since Linux 2.6.36 the writeback code has introduces various measures for live lock prevention during sync(). Unfortunately some of these are actively harmful for the XFS model, where the inode gets marked dirty for metadata from the data I/O handler. The older_than_this checks that are now more strictly enforced since writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback by only calling into __writeback_inodes_sb and thus only sampling the current cut off time once. But on a slow enough devices the previous asynchronous sync pass might not have fully completed yet, and thus XFS might mark metadata dirty only after that sampling of the cut off time for the blocking pass already happened. I have not myself reproduced this myself on a real system, but by introducing artificial delay into the XFS I/O completion workqueues it can be reproduced easily. Fix this by iterating over all XFS inodes in ->sync_fs and log all that are dirty. This might log inode that only got redirtied after the previous pass, but given how cheap delayed logging of inodes is it isn't a major concern for performance. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-12-12xfs: remove xfs_qm_syncChristoph Hellwig
Now that we can't have any dirty dquots around that aren't in the AIL we can get rid of the explicit dquot syncing from xfssyncd and xfs_fs_sync_fs and instead rely on AIL pushing to write out any quota updates. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-11-29xfs: force buffer writeback before blocking on the ilock in inode reclaimChristoph Hellwig
If we are doing synchronous inode reclaim we block the VM from making progress in memory reclaim. So if we encouter a flush locked inode promote it in the delwri list and wake up xfsbufd to write it out now. Without this we can get hangs of up to 30 seconds during workloads hitting synchronous inode reclaim. The scheme is copied from what we do for dquot reclaims. Reported-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca> Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: remove XFS_bflushChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: remove i_iocountChristoph Hellwig
We now have an i_dio_count filed and surrounding infrastructure to wait for direct I/O completion instead of i_icount, and we have never needed to iocount waits for buffered I/O given that we only set the page uptodate after finishing all required work. Thus remove i_iocount, and replace the actually needed waits with calls to inode_dio_wait. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11xfs: let xfs_bwrite callers handle the xfs_buf_relseChristoph Hellwig
Remove the xfs_buf_relse from xfs_bwrite and let the caller handle it to mirror the delwri and read paths. Also remove the mount pointer passed to xfs_bwrite, which is superflous now that we have a mount pointer in the buftarg. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-08-12xfs: remove subdirectoriesChristoph Hellwig
Use the move from Linux 2.6 to Linux 3.x as an excuse to kill the annoying subdirectories in the XFS source code. Besides the large amount of file rename the only changes are to the Makefile, a few files including headers with the subdirectory prefix, and the binary sysctl compat code that includes a header under fs/xfs/ from kernel/. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>