1. 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      jbd: improve fsync batching · f420d4dc
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching.  If we fsync() a
      file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we
      automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join
      into the transaction before forcing the commit.  The problem with this is
      that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit
      a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so
      sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed
      the transaction and kept going.  Ric Wheeler noticed this when using
      fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added
      more threads.
      
      This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in
      nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time
      we started the transaction.  If we run an fsync() and we have been running
      for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep
      for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk.  We acheive
      sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout.  This means that the wait
      time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having
      this static timeout.  I weighted the average according to somebody's
      comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random
      outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the
      average.  I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep
      longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested
      by Andrew.
      
      I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a
      ramdisk to represent a super fast array.  I tested with a SATA drive with
      barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested
      with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the
      ramdisk.  I ran the following command
      
      fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i
      
      where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32.  I mkfs'ed the fs each time.  Here are my
      results
      
      type	threads		with patch	without patch
      sata	2		24.6		26.3
      sata	4		49.2		48.1
      sata	8		70.1		67.0
      sata	16		104.0		94.1
      sata	32		153.6		142.7
      
      xserve	2		246.4		222.0
      xserve	4		480.0		440.8
      xserve	8		829.5		730.8
      xserve	16		1172.7		1026.9
      xserve	32		1816.3		1650.5
      
      ramdisk	2		2538.3		1745.6
      ramdisk	4		2942.3		661.9
      ramdisk	8		2882.5		999.8
      ramdisk	16		2738.7		1801.9
      ramdisk	32		2541.9		2394.0
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f420d4dc
  2. 31 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 11 8月, 2008 2 次提交
  5. 26 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction · 3f31fddf
      Mingming Cao 提交于
      journal_try_to_free_buffers() could race with jbd commit transaction when
      the later is holding the buffer reference while waiting for the data
      buffer to flush to disk.  If the caller of journal_try_to_free_buffers()
      request tries hard to release the buffers, it will treat the failure as
      error and return back to the caller.  We have seen the directo IO failed
      due to this race.  Some of the caller of releasepage() also expecting the
      buffer to be dropped when passed with GFP_KERNEL mask to the
      releasepage()->journal_try_to_free_buffers().
      
      With this patch, if the caller is passing the __GFP_WAIT and __GFP_FS to
      indicating this call could wait, in case of try_to_free_buffers() failed,
      let's waiting for journal_commit_transaction() to finish commit the
      current committing transaction, then try to free those buffers again.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f31fddf
  6. 28 4月, 2008 3 次提交
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      jbd: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences · 08fc99bf
      Harvey Harrison 提交于
      __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
      Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      08fc99bf
    • J
      jbd: fix possible journal overflow issues · 5b9a499d
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      There are several cases where the running transaction can get buffers added to
      its BJ_Metadata list which it never dirtied, which makes its t_nr_buffers
      counter end up larger than its t_outstanding_credits counter.
      
      This will cause issues when starting new transactions as while we are logging
      buffers we decrement t_outstanding_buffers, so when t_outstanding_buffers goes
      negative, we will report that we need less space in the journal than we
      actually need, so transactions will be started even though there may not be
      enough room for them.  In the worst case scenario (which admittedly is almost
      impossible to reproduce) this will result in the journal running out of space.
      
      The fix is to only
      refile buffers from the committing transaction to the running transactions
      BJ_Modified list when b_modified is set on that journal, which is the only way
      to be sure if the running transaction has modified that buffer.
      
      This patch also fixes an accounting error in journal_forget, it is possible
      that we can call journal_forget on a buffer without having modified it, only
      gotten write access to it, so instead of freeing a credit, we only do so if
      the buffer was modified.  The assert will help catch if this problem occurs.
      Without these two patches I could hit this assert within minutes of running
      postmark, with them this issue no longer arises.  Thank you,
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5b9a499d
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      jbd: fix the way the b_modified flag is cleared · 5bc833fe
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      Currently at the start of a journal commit we loop through all of the buffers
      on the committing transaction and clear the b_modified flag (the flag that is
      set when a transaction modifies the buffer) under the j_list_lock.
      
      The problem is that everywhere else this flag is modified only under the jbd
      lock buffer flag, so it will race with a running transaction who could
      potentially set it, and have it unset by the committing transaction.
      
      This is also a big waste, you can have several thousands of buffers that you
      are clearing the modified flag on when you may not need to.  This patch
      removes this code and instead clears the b_modified flag upon entering
      do_get_write_access/journal_get_create_access, so if that transaction does
      indeed use the buffer then it will be accounted for properly, and if it does
      not then we know we didn't use it.
      
      That will be important for the next patch in this series.  Tested thoroughly
      by myself using postmark/iozone/bonnie++.
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5bc833fe
  7. 20 3月, 2008 2 次提交
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      fs: fix kernel-doc notation warnings · a6b91919
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.
      
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
       *	mark_files_ro
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
       *	lease_get_mtime
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
       *	lease_get_mtime
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
       * lookup_one_len:  filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
       * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
       * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
       * void journal_invalidatepage()
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a6b91919
    • R
      jbd: fix jbd kernel-doc notation · 0cf01f66
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      Fix kernel-doc notation in jbd.
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0cf01f66
  8. 04 3月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 18 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  12. 18 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  13. 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  14. 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
  15. 11 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  17. 29 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] jbd: journal_dirty_data re-check for unmapped buffers · f58a74dc
      Eric Sandeen 提交于
      When running several fsx's and other filesystem stress tests, we found
      cases where an unmapped buffer was still being sent to submit_bh by the
      ext3 dirty data journaling code.
      
      I saw this happen in two ways, both related to another thread doing a
      truncate which would unmap the buffer in question.
      
      Either we would get into journal_dirty_data with a bh which was already
      unmapped (although journal_dirty_data_fn had checked for this earlier, the
      state was not locked at that point), or it would get unmapped in the middle
      of journal_dirty_data when we dropped locks to call sync_dirty_buffer.
      
      By re-checking for mapped state after we've acquired the bh state lock, we
      should avoid these races.  If we find a buffer which is no longer mapped,
      we essentially ignore it, because journal_unmap_buffer has already decided
      that this buffer can go away.
      
      I've also added tracepoints in these two cases, and made a couple other
      tracepoint changes that I found useful in debugging this.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Sandeen <esandeen@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f58a74dc
  18. 21 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] ext3/4: fix J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) in journal_stop() · 3e2a532b
      OGAWA Hirofumi 提交于
      A disk generated some I/O error, after it, I hitted
      J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0) in journal_stop().
      
      It seems to happened on ext3_truncate() path from stack trace. Then,
      maybe the following case may trigger J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0).
      
      ext3_truncate()
          -> ext3_free_branches()
              -> ext3_journal_test_restart()
      	    -> ext3_journal_restart()
                      -> journal_restart()
                      transaction->t_updates--;
                      /* another process aborted journal */
                          -> start_this_handle()
      		    returns -EROFS without transaction->t_updates++;
      
          -> ext3_journal_stop()
              -> journal_stop()
      	J_ASSERT(transaction->t_updates > 0)
      
      If journal was aborted in middle of journal_restart(), ext3_truncate()
      may trigger J_ASSERT().
      Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3e2a532b
  19. 27 9月, 2006 2 次提交
  20. 02 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 28 8月, 2006 1 次提交
  22. 23 6月, 2006 2 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] jbd: avoid kfree(NULL) · 304c4c84
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      There are a couple of places where JBD has to check to see whether an unneeded
      memory allocation was performed.  Usually it _was_ needed, so we end up
      calling kfree(NULL).  We can micro-optimise that by checking the pointer
      before calling kfree().
      
      Thanks to Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> for identifying this.
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      304c4c84
    • J
      [PATCH] jbd: fix BUG in journal_commit_transaction() · 9ada7340
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Fix possible assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() on
      jh->b_next_transaction == NULL (when we are processing BJ_Forget list and
      buffer is not jbddirty).
      
      !jbddirty buffers can be placed on BJ_Forget list for example by
      journal_forget() or by __dispose_buffer() - generally such buffer means
      that it has been freed by this transaction.
      
      Freed buffers should not be reallocated until the transaction has committed
      (that's why we have the assertion there) but they *can* be reallocated when
      the transaction has already been committed to disk and we are just
      processing the BJ_Forget list (as soon as we remove b_committed_data from
      the bitmap bh, ext3 will be able to reallocate buffers freed by the
      committing transaction).  So we have to also count with the case that the
      buffer has been reallocated and b_next_transaction has been already set.
      
      And one more subtle point: it can happen that we manage to reallocate the
      buffer and also mark it jbddirty.  Then we also add the freed buffer to the
      checkpoint list of the committing trasaction.  But that should do no harm.
      
      Non-jbddirty buffers should be filed to BJ_Reserved and not BJ_Metadata
      list.  It can actually happen that we refile such buffers during the commit
      phase when we reallocate in the running transaction blocks deleted in
      committing transaction (and that can happen if the committing transaction
      already wrote all the data and is just cleaning up BJ_Forget list).
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: N"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      9ada7340
  23. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  24. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  25. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  26. 06 2月, 2006 1 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batching · fe1dcbc4
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Ben points out that:
      
        When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a
        significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle.  The patch below
        results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my
        IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC.
      
      So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is
      doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync
      write.  If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the
      transaction.
      
      (Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance
      testing it)
      
      Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE:
      
      /usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name
      
      Unpatched:
      	40 seconds
      Patched:
      	35 seconds
      Batching disabled:
      	35 seconds
      
      This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case.  With multiple
      fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch.
      
      Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction
      batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10
      dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE).  This is because by the time one
      process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already
      have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same
      transaction anyway.
      
      The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm
      pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd
      years ago...
      
      Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
      Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fe1dcbc4
  27. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  28. 28 10月, 2005 1 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/* · 27496a8c
      Al Viro 提交于
       - ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated
       - missing gfp_t in fs/* added
       - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks:
         XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator.
         The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a
         different type for those but for now let's leave them alone.  That,
         BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had
         been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with
         no way to catch misuses.  Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that
         immediately...
      
      One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is
      a mix of gfp_t and error indications.  Left alone for now.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      27496a8c
  29. 11 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  30. 08 9月, 2005 1 次提交
    • J
      [PATCH] Fix race in do_get_write_access() · 4407c2b6
      Jan Kara 提交于
        attached patch should fix the following race:
           Proc 1                               Proc 2
      
           __flush_batch()
             ll_rw_block()
                                              do_get_write_access()
      					   lock_buffer
                                                   jh is only waiting for checkpoint
      					     -> b_transaction == NULL ->
      					     do nothing
                                                 unlock_buffer
          test_set_buffer_locked()
          test_clear_buffer_dirty()
                                                 __journal_file_buffer()
                                              change the data
          submit_bh()
      
      and we have sent wrong data to disk...  We now clean the dirty buffer flag
      under buffer lock in all cases and hence we know that whenever a buffer is
      starting to be journaled we either finish the pending write-out before
      attaching a buffer to a transaction or we won't write the buffer until the
      transaction is going to be committed.
      
      The test in jbd_unexpected_dirty_buffer() is redundant - remove it.
      Furthermore we have to clear the buffer dirty bit under the buffer lock to
      prevent races with buffer write-out (and hence prevent returning a buffer with
      IO happening).
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4407c2b6
  31. 17 4月, 2005 2 次提交
    • A
      [PATCH] jbd dirty buffer leak fix · d13df84f
      akpm@osdl.org 提交于
      This fixes the lots-of-fsx-linux-instances-cause-a-slow-leak bug.
      
      It's been there since 2.6.6, caused by:
      
      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.5/2.6.5-mm4/broken-out/jbd-move-locked-buffers.patch
      
      That patch moves under-writeout ordered-data buffers onto a separate journal
      list during commit.  It took out the old code which was based on a single
      list.
      
      The old code (necessarily) had logic which would restart I/O against buffers
      which had been redirtied while they were on the committing transaction's
      t_sync_datalist list.  The new code only writes buffers once, ignoring
      redirtyings by a later transaction, which is good.
      
      But over on the truncate side of things, in journal_unmap_buffer(), we're
      treating buffers on the t_locked_list as inviolable things which belong to the
      committing transaction, and we just leave them alone during concurrent
      truncate-vs-commit.
      
      The net effect is that when truncate tries to invalidate a page whose buffers
      are on t_locked_list and have been redirtied, journal_unmap_buffer() just
      leaves those buffers alone.  truncate will remove the page from its mapping
      and we end up with an anonymous clean page with dirty buffers, which is an
      illegal state for a page.  The JBD commit will not clean those buffers as they
      are removed from t_locked_list.  The VM (try_to_free_buffers) cannot reclaim
      these pages.
      
      The patch teaches journal_unmap_buffer() about buffers which are on the
      committing transaction's t_locked_list.  These buffers have been written and
      I/O has completed.  We can take them off the transaction and undirty them
      within the context of journal_invalidatepage()->journal_unmap_buffer().
      Acked-by: N"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d13df84f
    • L
      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      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!
      1da177e4