1. 16 10月, 2007 8 次提交
  2. 14 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [XFS] Fix remount,readonly path to flush everything correctly. · 516b2e7c
      David Chinner 提交于
      The remount readonly path can fail to writeback properly because we still
      have active transactions after calling xfs_quiesce_fs(). Further
      investigation shows that this path is broken in the same ways that the xfs
      freeze path was broken so fix it the same way.
      
      SGI-PV: 964464
      SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28869a
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
      516b2e7c
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      [XFS] Lazy Superblock Counters · 92821e2b
      David Chinner 提交于
      When we have a couple of hundred transactions on the fly at once, they all
      typically modify the on disk superblock in some way.
      create/unclink/mkdir/rmdir modify inode counts, allocation/freeing modify
      free block counts.
      
      When these counts are modified in a transaction, they must eventually lock
      the superblock buffer and apply the mods. The buffer then remains locked
      until the transaction is committed into the incore log buffer. The result
      of this is that with enough transactions on the fly the incore superblock
      buffer becomes a bottleneck.
      
      The result of contention on the incore superblock buffer is that
      transaction rates fall - the more pressure that is put on the superblock
      buffer, the slower things go.
      
      The key to removing the contention is to not require the superblock fields
      in question to be locked. We do that by not marking the superblock dirty
      in the transaction. IOWs, we modify the incore superblock but do not
      modify the cached superblock buffer. In short, we do not log superblock
      modifications to critical fields in the superblock on every transaction.
      In fact we only do it just before we write the superblock to disk every
      sync period or just before unmount.
      
      This creates an interesting problem - if we don't log or write out the
      fields in every transaction, then how do the values get recovered after a
      crash? the answer is simple - we keep enough duplicate, logged information
      in other structures that we can reconstruct the correct count after log
      recovery has been performed.
      
      It is the AGF and AGI structures that contain the duplicate information;
      after recovery, we walk every AGI and AGF and sum their individual
      counters to get the correct value, and we do a transaction into the log to
      correct them. An optimisation of this is that if we have a clean unmount
      record, we know the value in the superblock is correct, so we can avoid
      the summation walk under normal conditions and so mount/recovery times do
      not change under normal operation.
      
      One wrinkle that was discovered during development was that the blocks
      used in the freespace btrees are never accounted for in the AGF counters.
      This was once a valid optimisation to make; when the filesystem is full,
      the free space btrees are empty and consume no space. Hence when it
      matters, the "accounting" is correct. But that means the when we do the
      AGF summations, we would not have a correct count and xfs_check would
      complain. Hence a new counter was added to track the number of blocks used
      by the free space btrees. This is an *on-disk format change*.
      
      As a result of this, lazy superblock counters are a mkfs option and at the
      moment on linux there is no way to convert an old filesystem. This is
      possible - xfs_db can be used to twiddle the right bits and then
      xfs_repair will do the format conversion for you. Similarly, you can
      convert backwards as well. At some point we'll add functionality to
      xfs_admin to do the bit twiddling easily....
      
      SGI-PV: 964999
      SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28652a
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
      92821e2b
  3. 10 2月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [XFS] Make freeze code a little cleaner. · 3c0dc77b
      David Chinner 提交于
      Fixes a few small issues (mostly cosmetic) that were picked up during the
      review cycle for the last set of freeze path changes.
      
      SGI-PV: 959267
      SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28035a
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
      3c0dc77b
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      [XFS] Ensure a frozen filesystem has a clean log before writing the dummy · 2823945f
      David Chinner 提交于
      record.
      
      The current Linux XFS freeze code is a mess. We flush the metadata buffers
      out while we are still allowing new transactions to start and then fail to
      flush the dirty buffers back out before writing the unmount and dummy
      records to the log.
      
      This leads to problems when the frozen filesystem is used for snapshots -
      we do log recovery on a readonly image and often it appears that the log
      image in the snapshot is not correct. Hence we end up with hangs, oops and
      mount failures when trying to mount a snapshot image that has been created
      when the filesystem has not been correctly frozen.
      
      To fix this, we need to move th metadata flush to after we wait for all
      current transactions to complete in teh second stage of the freeze. This
      means that when we write the final log records, the log should be clean
      and recovery should never occur on a snapshot image created from a frozen
      filesystem.
      
      SGI-PV: 959267
      SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28010a
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDonald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
      2823945f
  4. 28 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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  10. 21 6月, 2005 1 次提交
  11. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      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