1. 13 5月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 24 3月, 2009 4 次提交
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      GFS2: Add a "demote a glock" interface to sysfs · 64d576ba
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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:
      
      <type>:<glocknumber> <mode>
      
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      64d576ba
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      GFS2: Expose UUID via sysfs/uevent · 02e3cc70
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      02e3cc70
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      GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2 · f057f6cd
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      f057f6cd
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      GFS2: change gfs2_quota_scan into a shrinker · 0a7ab79c
      Abhijith Das 提交于
      Deallocation of gfs2_quota_data objects now happens on-demand through a
      shrinker instead of routinely deallocating through the quotad daemon.
      Signed-off-by: NAbhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      0a7ab79c
  3. 05 1月, 2009 4 次提交
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      GFS2: Remove ancient, unused code · 2e204703
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      Remove code that used to have something to do with initrd
      but has been unused for a long time.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      2e204703
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      GFS2: Send some sensible sysfs stuff · fdd1062e
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      We ought to inform the user of the locktable and lockproto for each
      uevent we generate.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      fdd1062e
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      GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch · 97cc1025
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      97cc1025
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      GFS2: Clean up & move gfs2_quotad · 37b2c837
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      37b2c837
  4. 18 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      GFS2: high time to take some time over atime · 719ee344
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      719ee344
  5. 10 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 27 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code · 1bdad606
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      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: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      1bdad606
  7. 31 3月, 2008 2 次提交
  8. 25 1月, 2008 8 次提交
  9. 13 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  10. 10 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 03 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  12. 06 2月, 2007 3 次提交
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      [GFS2] Remove the "greedy" function from glock.[ch] · e5dab552
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      The "greedy" code was an attempt to retain glocks for a minimum length
      of time when they relate to mmap()ed files. The current implementation
      of this feature is not, however, ideal in that it required allocating
      memory in order to do this and its overly complicated.
      
      It also misses the mark by ignoring the other I/O operations which are
      just as likely to suffer from the same problem. So the plan is to remove
      this now and then add the functionality back as part of the glock state
      machine at a later date (and thus take into account all the possible
      users of this feature)
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      e5dab552
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      [GFS2] Remove max_atomic_write tunable · 330005c2
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This removes an unused sysfs tunable parameter.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      330005c2
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      [GFS2] Clean up/speed up readdir · 3699e3a4
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This removes the extra filldir callback which gfs2 was using to
      enclose an attempt at readahead for inodes during readdir. The
      code was too complicated and also hurts performance badly in the
      case that the getdents64/readdir call isn't being followed by
      stat() and it wasn't even getting it right all the time when it
      was.
      
      As a result, on my test box an "ls" of a directory containing 250000
      files fell from about 7mins (freshly mounted, so nothing cached) to
      between about 15 to 25 seconds. When the directory content was cached,
      the time taken fell from about 3mins to about 4 or 5 seconds.
      
      Interestingly in the cached case, running "ls -l" once reduced the time
      taken for subsequent runs of "ls" to about 6 secs even without this
      patch. Now it turns out that there was a special case of glocks being
      used for prefetching the metadata, but because of the timeouts for these
      locks (set to 10 secs) the metadata was being timed out before it was
      being used and this the prefetch code was constantly trying to prefetch
      the same data over and over.
      
      Calling "ls -l" meant that the inodes were brought into memory and once
      the inodes are cached, the glocks are not disposed of until the inodes
      are pushed out of the cache, thus extending the lifetime of the glocks,
      and thus bringing down the time for subsequent runs of "ls"
      considerably.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      3699e3a4
  13. 30 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 19 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  15. 18 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 07 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  17. 06 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  18. 05 9月, 2006 3 次提交
  19. 01 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.h · e9fc2aa0
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
      updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
      "v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
      declarations which are not required.
      
      The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
      to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
      lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
      a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
      conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
      conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
      moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
      and removed the unused lvb.[ch].
      
      I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
      which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
      struct gfs2_holder.
      
      Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      e9fc2aa0
  20. 15 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [GFS2] Fix unlinked file handling · feaa7bba
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
      but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
      for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
      which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
      fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
      to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
      unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
      on different nodes.
      
      Also there are a number of other changes:
      
       o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
      used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
       o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
      local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
      core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
       o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
      completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
       o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
      state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
       o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
       o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
      core struct gfs2_inode
       o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
      superblock
      
      There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
      which have been made possible by this patch.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      feaa7bba
  21. 19 5月, 2006 1 次提交