1. 09 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG · 6e34eedd
      Theodore Ts'o 提交于
      Now that we have a distinction between WRITE_SYNC and WRITE_SYNC_PLUG,
      use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in __block_write_full_page() to avoid unplugging
      the block device I/O queue between each page that gets flushed out.
      
      Otherwise, when we run sync() or fsync() and we need to write out a
      large number of pages, the block device queue will get unplugged
      between for every page that is flushed out, which will be a pretty
      serious performance regression caused by commit a64c8610.
      Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      6e34eedd
  2. 06 4月, 2009 2 次提交
  3. 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 01 4月, 2009 6 次提交
  5. 28 3月, 2009 2 次提交
  6. 20 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 19 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 18 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      block: revert part of 18ce3751 · 78f707bf
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      The above commit added WRITE_SYNC and switched various places to using
      that for committing writes that will be waited upon immediately after
      submission. However, this causes a performance regression with AS and CFQ
      for ext3 at least, since sync_dirty_buffer() will submit some writes with
      WRITE_SYNC while ext3 has sumitted others dependent writes without the sync
      flag set. This causes excessive anticipation/idling in the IO scheduler
      because sync and async writes get interleaved, causing a big performance
      regression for the below test case (which is meant to simulate sqlite
      like behaviour).
      
      ---- test case ----
      
      int main(int argc, char **argv)
      {
      
      	int fdes, i;
      	FILE *fp;
      	struct timeval start;
      	struct timeval end;
      	struct timeval res;
      
      	gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
      	for (i=0; i<ROWS; i++) {
      		fp = fopen("test_file", "a");
      		fprintf(fp, "Some Text Data\n");
      		fdes = fileno(fp);
      		fsync(fdes);
      		fclose(fp);
      	}
      	gettimeofday(&end, NULL);
      
      	timersub(&end, &start, &res);
      	fprintf(stdout, "time to write %d lines is %ld(msec)\n", ROWS,
      			(res.tv_sec*1000000 + res.tv_usec)/1000);
      
      	return 0;
      }
      
      -------------------
      
      Thanks to Sean.White@APCC.com for tracking down this performance
      regression and providing a test case.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      78f707bf
  9. 07 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      vfs: Don't call attach_nobh_buffers() with an empty list · d4cf109f
      Dave Kleikamp 提交于
      This is a modification of a patch by Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
      
      nobh_write_end() could call attach_nobh_buffers() with head == NULL.
      This would result in a trap when attach_nobh_buffers() attempted to
      access bh->b_this_page.
      
      This can be illustrated by running the writev01 testcase from LTP on jfs.
      
      This error was introduced by commit 5b41e74a "vfs: fix data leak in
      nobh_write_end()".  That patch did not take into account that if
      PageMappedToDisk() is true upon entry to nobh_write_begin(), then no
      buffers will be allocated for the page.  In that case, we won't have to
      worry about a failed write leaving unitialized data in the page.
      
      Of course, head != NULL implies !page_has_buffers(page), so no need to
      test both.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
      Cc: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d4cf109f
  10. 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 10 1月, 2009 2 次提交
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      filesystem freeze: implement generic freeze feature · fcccf502
      Takashi Sato 提交于
      The ioctls for the generic freeze feature are below.
      o Freeze the filesystem
        int ioctl(int fd, int FIFREEZE, arg)
          fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
          FIFREEZE: request code for the freeze
          arg: Ignored
          Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
      
      o Unfreeze the filesystem
        int ioctl(int fd, int FITHAW, arg)
          fd: The file descriptor of the mountpoint
          FITHAW: request code for unfreeze
          arg: Ignored
          Return value: 0 if the operation succeeds. Otherwise, -1
          Error number: If the filesystem has already been unfrozen,
                        errno is set to EINVAL.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_BLOCK=n]
      Signed-off-by: NTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMasayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fcccf502
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      filesystem freeze: add error handling of write_super_lockfs/unlockfs · c4be0c1d
      Takashi Sato 提交于
      Currently, ext3 in mainline Linux doesn't have the freeze feature which
      suspends write requests.  So, we cannot take a backup which keeps the
      filesystem's consistency with the storage device's features (snapshot and
      replication) while it is mounted.
      
      In many case, a commercial filesystem (e.g.  VxFS) has the freeze feature
      and it would be used to get the consistent backup.
      
      If Linux's standard filesystem ext3 has the freeze feature, we can do it
      without a commercial filesystem.
      
      So I have implemented the ioctls of the freeze feature.
      I think we can take the consistent backup with the following steps.
      1. Freeze the filesystem with the freeze ioctl.
      2. Separate the replication volume or create the snapshot
         with the storage device's feature.
      3. Unfreeze the filesystem with the unfreeze ioctl.
      4. Take the backup from the separated replication volume
         or the snapshot.
      
      This patch:
      
      VFS:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that they can return an error.
      Rename write_super_lockfs and unlockfs of the super block operation
      freeze_fs and unfreeze_fs to avoid a confusion.
      
      ext3, ext4, xfs, gfs2, jfs:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that write_super_lockfs returns an error if needed,
      and unlockfs always returns 0.
      
      reiserfs:
      Changed the type of write_super_lockfs and unlockfs from "void"
      to "int" so that they always return 0 (success) to keep a current behavior.
      Signed-off-by: NTakashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMasayuki Hamaguchi <m-hamaguchi@ys.jp.nec.com>
      Cc: <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c4be0c1d
  12. 07 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix · 54566b2c
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
      could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
      allocations happened.  They are done in write_begin, which would always
      assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim.  This bug could
      cause filesystem deadlocks.
      
      The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
      allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
      called.  It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
      take the page lock.  The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
      anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
      
      Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS.  Filesystems can now act on
      this flag in their write_begin function.  Change __grab_cache_page to
      accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
      change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
      and does away with random leading underscores).
      
      This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
      filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
      ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
      GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg.  ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
      random example).
      
      [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
      [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
      Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
        untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function.  That
        just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
        logic.   - Linus ]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      54566b2c
  14. 29 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set · 08bafc03
      Keith Mannthey 提交于
      Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
      file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
      request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer.  The buffer
      layer can then suppress needless printks.
      
      This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
      buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
      is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
      logs without this patch.
      
      During boot I see blocks of messages like
      "
      __ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
      Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
      "
      in my logs.
      
      My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
      code and multipathd.  This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
      path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
      SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
      to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
      layer messages.
      
       I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
      system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
      patch for a while now on several boxes without issue.  A few runs of
      bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.
      
      Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.
      Submitted-by: NKeith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      08bafc03
  15. 28 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      udf: Fix BUG_ON() in destroy_inode() · 52b19ac9
      Jan Kara 提交于
      udf_clear_inode() can leave behind buffers on mapping's i_private list (when
      we truncated preallocation). Call invalidate_inode_buffers() so that the list
      is properly cleaned-up before we return from udf_clear_inode(). This is ugly
      and suggest that we should cleanup preallocation earlier than in clear_inode()
      but currently there's no such call available since drop_inode() is called under
      inode lock and thus is unusable for disk operations.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      52b19ac9
  16. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  17. 27 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  18. 05 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  19. 31 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  20. 29 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      vfs: pagecache usage optimization for pagesize!=blocksize · 8ab22b9a
      Hisashi Hifumi 提交于
      When we read some part of a file through pagecache, if there is a
      pagecache of corresponding index but this page is not uptodate, read IO
      is issued and this page will be uptodate.
      
      I think this is good for pagesize == blocksize environment but there is
      room for improvement on pagesize != blocksize environment.  Because in
      this case a page can have multiple buffers and even if a page is not
      uptodate, some buffers can be uptodate.
      
      So I suggest that when all buffers which correspond to a part of a file
      that we want to read are uptodate, use this pagecache and copy data from
      this pagecache to user buffer even if a page is not uptodate.  This can
      reduce read IO and improve system throughput.
      
      I wrote a benchmark program and got result number with this program.
      
      This benchmark do:
      
        1: mount and open a test file.
      
        2: create a 512MB file.
      
        3: close a file and umount.
      
        4: mount and again open a test file.
      
        5: pwrite randomly 300000 times on a test file.  offset is aligned
           by IO size(1024bytes).
      
        6: measure time of preading randomly 100000 times on a test file.
      
      The result was:
      	2.6.26
              330 sec
      
      	2.6.26-patched
              226 sec
      
      Arch:i386
      Filesystem:ext3
      Blocksize:1024 bytes
      Memory: 1GB
      
      On ext3/4, a file is written through buffer/block.  So random read/write
      mixed workloads or random read after random write workloads are optimized
      with this patch under pagesize != blocksize environment.  This test result
      showed this.
      
      The benchmark program is as follows:
      
      #include <stdio.h>
      #include <sys/types.h>
      #include <sys/stat.h>
      #include <fcntl.h>
      #include <unistd.h>
      #include <time.h>
      #include <stdlib.h>
      #include <string.h>
      #include <sys/mount.h>
      
      #define LEN 1024
      #define LOOP 1024*512 /* 512MB */
      
      main(void)
      {
      	unsigned long i, offset, filesize;
      	int fd;
      	char buf[LEN];
      	time_t t1, t2;
      
      	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
      		perror("cannot mount\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      	memset(buf, 0, LEN);
      	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC);
      	if (fd < 0) {
      		perror("cannot open file\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      	for (i = 0; i < LOOP; i++)
      		write(fd, buf, LEN);
      	close(fd);
      	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
      		perror("cannot umount\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      	if (mount("/dev/sda1", "/root/test1/", "ext3", 0, 0) < 0) {
      		perror("cannot mount\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      	fd = open("/root/test1/testfile", O_RDWR);
      	if (fd < 0) {
      		perror("cannot open file\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      
      	filesize = LEN * LOOP;
      	for (i = 0; i < 300000; i++){
      		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
      		pwrite(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
      	}
      	printf("start test\n");
      	time(&t1);
      	for (i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
      		offset = (random() % filesize) & (~(LEN - 1));
      		pread(fd, buf, LEN, offset);
      	}
      	time(&t2);
      	printf("%ld sec\n", t2-t1);
      	close(fd);
      	if (umount("/root/test1/") < 0) {
      		perror("cannot umount\n");
      		exit(1);
      	}
      }
      Signed-off-by: NHisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8ab22b9a
  21. 27 7月, 2008 3 次提交
  22. 12 7月, 2008 2 次提交
  23. 01 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Properly notify block layer of sync writes · 18ce3751
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      fsync_buffers_list() and sync_dirty_buffer() both issue async writes and
      then immediately wait on them. Conceptually, that makes them sync writes
      and we should treat them as such so that the IO schedulers can handle
      them appropriately.
      
      This patch fixes a write starvation issue that Lin Ming reported, where
      xx is stuck for more than 2 minutes because of a large number of
      synchronous IO in the system:
      
      INFO: task kjournald:20558 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
      "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this
      message.
      kjournald     D ffff810010820978  6712 20558      2
      ffff81022ddb1d10 0000000000000046 ffff81022e7baa10 ffffffff803ba6f2
      ffff81022ecd0000 ffff8101e6dc9160 ffff81022ecd0348 000000008048b6cb
      0000000000000086 ffff81022c4e8d30 0000000000000000 ffffffff80247537
      Call Trace:
      [<ffffffff803ba6f2>] kobject_get+0x12/0x17
      [<ffffffff80247537>] getnstimeofday+0x2f/0x83
      [<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
      [<ffffffff8066d195>] io_schedule+0x5d/0x9f
      [<ffffffff8029c1e7>] sync_buffer+0x3b/0x3f
      [<ffffffff8066d3f0>] __wait_on_bit+0x40/0x6f
      [<ffffffff8029c1ac>] sync_buffer+0x0/0x3f
      [<ffffffff8066d48b>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6c/0x78
      [<ffffffff80243909>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23
      [<ffffffff8029e3ad>] sync_dirty_buffer+0x98/0xcb
      [<ffffffff8030056b>] journal_commit_transaction+0x97d/0xcb6
      [<ffffffff8023a676>] lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b
      [<ffffffff8030300a>] kjournald+0xc1/0x1fb
      [<ffffffff802438db>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e
      [<ffffffff80302f49>] kjournald+0x0/0x1fb
      [<ffffffff802437bb>] kthread+0x47/0x74
      [<ffffffff8022de51>] schedule_tail+0x28/0x5d
      [<ffffffff8020cac8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
      [<ffffffff80243774>] kthread+0x0/0x74
      [<ffffffff8020cabe>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
      
      Lin Ming confirms that this patch fixes the issue. I've run tests with
      it for the past week and no ill effects have been observed, so I'm
      proposing it for inclusion into 2.6.26.
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      18ce3751
  24. 26 6月, 2008 1 次提交
  25. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  26. 29 4月, 2008 2 次提交
  27. 28 4月, 2008 2 次提交