1. 11 11月, 2010 5 次提交
  2. 29 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  3. 27 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references · 1b430bee
      Wu Fengguang 提交于
      This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519e
      (writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks).  There are
      no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
      ext4 tracing interface.
      
      The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
      flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
      IO congestion.  The latter will lead to more seeky IO.
      
      The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
      redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.
      
      We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
      a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
      b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
         that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
         is unfair in terms of LRU age.
      
      Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
      Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
      Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
      Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1b430bee
  4. 26 10月, 2010 4 次提交
  5. 19 10月, 2010 23 次提交
  6. 11 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      workqueue: add and use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag · 6370a6ad
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark
      WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to
      WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.
      
      This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead
      of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward
      progress.  This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to
      WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.  For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim
      workqueues can be made highpri.
      
      This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
      Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
      Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      6370a6ad
  7. 07 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      xfs: properly account for reclaimed inodes · 081003ff
      Johannes Weiner 提交于
      When marking an inode reclaimable, a per-AG counter is increased, the
      inode is tagged reclaimable in its per-AG tree, and, when this is the
      first reclaimable inode in the AG, the AG entry in the per-mount tree
      is also tagged.
      
      When an inode is finally reclaimed, however, it is only deleted from
      the per-AG tree.  Neither the counter is decreased, nor is the parent
      tree's AG entry untagged properly.
      
      Since the tags in the per-mount tree are not cleared, the inode
      shrinker iterates over all AGs that have had reclaimable inodes at one
      point in time.
      
      The counters on the other hand signal an increasing amount of slab
      objects to reclaim.  Since "70e60ce7 xfs: convert inode shrinker to
      per-filesystem context" this is not a real issue anymore because the
      shrinker bails out after one iteration.
      
      But the problem was observable on a machine running v2.6.34, where the
      reclaimable work increased and each process going into direct reclaim
      eventually got stuck on the xfs inode shrinking path, trying to scan
      several million objects.
      
      Fix this by properly unwinding the reclaimable-state tracking of an
      inode when it is reclaimed.
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Reviewed-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
      081003ff
  8. 17 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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      block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT · dd3932ed
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      All the blkdev_issue_* helpers can only sanely be used for synchronous
      caller.  To issue cache flushes or barriers asynchronously the caller needs
      to set up a bio by itself with a completion callback to move the asynchronous
      state machine ahead.  So drop the BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag that is always
      specified when calling blkdev_issue_* and also remove the now unused flags
      argument to blkdev_issue_flush and blkdev_issue_zeroout.  For
      blkdev_issue_discard we need to keep it for the secure discard flag, which
      gains a more descriptive name and loses the bitops vs flag confusion.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      dd3932ed
  9. 10 9月, 2010 3 次提交