1. 18 10月, 2007 2 次提交
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      ext4: Convert bg_inode_bitmap and bg_inode_table · 5272f837
      Aneesh Kumar K.V 提交于
      Convert bg_inode_bitmap and bg_inode_table to bg_inode_bitmap_lo
      and bg_inode_table_lo.  This helps in finding BUGs due to
      direct partial access of these split 64 bit values
      
      Also fix one direct partial access
      Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      5272f837
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      Ext4: Uninitialized Block Groups · 717d50e4
      Andreas Dilger 提交于
      In pass1 of e2fsck, every inode table in the fileystem is scanned and checked,
      regardless of whether it is in use.  This is this the most time consuming part
      of the filesystem check.  The unintialized block group feature can greatly
      reduce e2fsck time by eliminating checking of uninitialized inodes.
      
      With this feature, there is a a high water mark of used inodes for each block
      group.  Block and inode bitmaps can be uninitialized on disk via a flag in the
      group descriptor to avoid reading or scanning them at e2fsck time.  A checksum
      of each group descriptor is used to ensure that corruption in the group
      descriptor's bit flags does not cause incorrect operation.
      
      The feature is enabled through a mkfs option
      
      	mke2fs /dev/ -O uninit_groups
      
      A patch adding support for uninitialized block groups to e2fsprogs tools has
      been posted to the linux-ext4 mailing list.
      
      The patches have been stress tested with fsstress and fsx.  In performance
      tests testing e2fsck time, we have seen that e2fsck time on ext3 grows
      linearly with the total number of inodes in the filesytem.  In ext4 with the
      uninitialized block groups feature, the e2fsck time is constant, based
      solely on the number of used inodes rather than the total inode count.
      Since typical ext4 filesystems only use 1-10% of their inodes, this feature can
      greatly reduce e2fsck time for users.  With performance improvement of 2-20
      times, depending on how full the filesystem is.
      
      The attached graph shows the major improvements in e2fsck times in filesystems
      with a large total inode count, but few inodes in use.
      
      In each group descriptor if we have
      
      EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT set in bg_flags:
              Inode table is not initialized/used in this group. So we can skip
              the consistency check during fsck.
      EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT set in bg_flags:
              No block in the group is used. So we can skip the block bitmap
              verification for this group.
      
      We also add two new fields to group descriptor as a part of
      uninitialized group patch.
      
              __le16  bg_itable_unused;       /* Unused inodes count */
              __le16  bg_checksum;            /* crc16(sb_uuid+group+desc) */
      
      bg_itable_unused:
      
      If we have EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT not set in bg_flags
      then bg_itable_unused will give the offset within
      the inode table till the inodes are used. This can be
      used by fsck to skip list of inodes that are marked unused.
      
      bg_checksum:
      Now that we depend on bg_flags and bg_itable_unused to determine
      the block and inode usage, we need to make sure group descriptor
      is not corrupt. We add checksum to group descriptor to
      detect corruption. If the descriptor is found to be corrupt, we
      mark all the blocks and inodes in the group used.
      Signed-off-by: NAvantika Mathur <mathur@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      717d50e4
  2. 17 10月, 2007 3 次提交
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  9. 27 9月, 2006 5 次提交
  10. 28 8月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
  12. 26 6月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: the rest of in-kernel filesystem blocks conversion · 43d23f90
      Mingming Cao 提交于
      Convert the ext3 in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t.  Convert the
      rest of all unsigned long type in-kernel filesystem blocks to ext3_fsblk_t,
      and replace the printk format string respondingly.
      Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      43d23f90
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      [PATCH] ext3_fsblk_t: filesystem, group blocks and bug fixes · 1c2bf374
      Mingming Cao 提交于
      Some of the in-kernel ext3 block variable type are treated as signed 4 bytes
      int type, thus limited ext3 filesystem to 8TB (4kblock size based).  While
      trying to fix them, it seems quite confusing in the ext3 code where some
      blocks are filesystem-wide blocks, some are group relative offsets that need
      to be signed value (as -1 has special meaning).  So it seem saner to define
      two types of physical blocks: one is filesystem wide blocks, another is
      group-relative blocks.  The following patches clarify these two types of
      blocks in the ext3 code, and fix the type bugs which limit current 32 bit ext3
      filesystem limit to 8TB.
      
      With this series of patches and the percpu counter data type changes in the mm
      tree, we are able to extend exts filesystem limit to 16TB.
      
      This work is also a pre-request for the recent >32 bit ext3 work, and makes
      the kernel to able to address 48 bit ext3 block a lot easier: Simply redefine
      ext3_fsblk_t from unsigned long to sector_t and redefine the format string for
      ext3 filesystem block corresponding.
      
      Two RFC with a series patches have been posted to ext2-devel list and have
      been reviewed and discussed:
      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114722190816690&w=2
      
      http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=114784919525942&w=2
      
      Patches are tested on both 32 bit machine and 64 bit machine, <8TB ext3 and
      >8TB ext3 filesystem(with the latest to be released e2fsprogs-1.39).  Tests
      includes overnight fsx, tiobench, dbench and fsstress.
      
      This patch:
      
      Defines ext3_fsblk_t and ext3_grpblk_t, and the printk format string for
      filesystem wide blocks.
      
      This patch classifies all block group relative blocks, and ext3_fsblk_t blocks
      occurs in the same function where used to be confusing before.  Also include
      kernel bug fixes for filesystem wide in-kernel block variables.  There are
      some fileystem wide blocks are treated as int/unsigned int type in the kernel
      currently, especially in ext3 block allocation and reservation code.  This
      patch fixed those bugs by converting those variables to ext3_fsblk_t(unsigned
      long) type.
      Signed-off-by: NMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      1c2bf374
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