1. 03 11月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 28 10月, 2011 2 次提交
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      nfs: drop unnecessary locking in llseek · 79835a71
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This makes NFS follow the standard generic_file_llseek locking scheme.
      
      Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      79835a71
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      vfs: do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek · ef3d0fd2
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      The i_mutex lock use of generic _file_llseek hurts.  Independent processes
      accessing the same file synchronize over a single lock, even though
      they have no need for synchronization at all.
      
      Under high utilization this can cause llseek to scale very poorly on larger
      systems.
      
      This patch does some rethinking of the llseek locking model:
      
      First the 64bit f_pos is not necessarily atomic without locks
      on 32bit systems. This can already cause races with read() today.
      This was discussed on linux-kernel in the past and deemed acceptable.
      The patch does not change that.
      
      Let's look at the different seek variants:
      
      SEEK_SET: Doesn't really need any locking.
      If there's a race one writer wins, the other loses.
      
      For 32bit the non atomic update races against read()
      stay the same. Without a lock they can also happen
      against write() now.  The read() race was deemed
      acceptable in past discussions, and I think if it's
      ok for read it's ok for write too.
      
      => Don't need a lock.
      
      SEEK_END: This behaves like SEEK_SET plus it reads
      the maximum size too. Reading the maximum size would have the
      32bit atomic problem. But luckily we already have a way to read
      the maximum size without locking (i_size_read), so we
      can just use that instead.
      
      Without i_mutex there is no synchronization with write() anymore,
      however since the write() update is atomic on 64bit it just behaves
      like another racy SEEK_SET.  On non atomic 32bit it's the same
      as SEEK_SET.
      
      => Don't need a lock, but need to use i_size_read()
      
      SEEK_CUR: This has a read-modify-write race window
      on the same file. One could argue that any application
      doing unsynchronized seeks on the same file is already broken.
      But for the sake of not adding a regression here I'm
      using the file->f_lock to synchronize this. Using this
      lock is much better than the inode mutex because it doesn't
      synchronize between processes.
      
      => So still need a lock, but can use a f_lock.
      
      This patch implements this new scheme in generic_file_llseek.
      I dropped generic_file_llseek_unlocked and changed all callers.
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      ef3d0fd2
  3. 21 7月, 2011 2 次提交
  4. 31 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  5. 25 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  6. 24 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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  8. 08 12月, 2010 1 次提交
  9. 31 10月, 2010 2 次提交
  10. 25 10月, 2010 2 次提交
  11. 20 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  12. 23 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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      nfs: introduce mount option '-olocal_lock' to make locks local · 5eebde23
      Suresh Jayaraman 提交于
      NFS clients since 2.6.12 support flock locks by emulating fcntl byte-range
      locks. Due to this, some windows applications which seem to use both flock
      (share mode lock mapped as flock by Samba) and fcntl locks sequentially on
      the same file, can't lock as they falsely assume the file is already locked.
      The problem was reported on a setup with windows clients accessing excel files
      on a Samba exported share which is originally a NFS mount from a NetApp filer.
      
      Older NFS clients (< 2.6.12) did not see this problem as flock locks were
      considered local. To support legacy flock behavior, this patch adds a mount
      option "-olocal_lock=" which can take the following values:
      
         'none'  		- Neither flock locks nor POSIX locks are local
         'flock' 		- flock locks are local
         'posix' 		- fcntl/POSIX locks are local
         'all'		- Both flock locks and POSIX locks are local
      
      Testing:
      
         - This patch was tested by using -olocal_lock option with different values
           and the NLM calls were noted from the network packet captured.
      
           'none'  - NLM calls were seen during both flock() and fcntl(), flock lock
         	       was granted, fcntl was denied
           'flock' - no NLM calls for flock(), NLM call was seen for fcntl(),
         	       granted
           'posix' - NLM call was seen for flock() - granted, no NLM call for fcntl()
           'all'   - no NLM calls were seen during both flock() and fcntl()
      
         - No bugs were seen during NFSv4 locking/unlocking in general and NFSv4
           reboot recovery.
      
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NSuresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      5eebde23
  13. 13 9月, 2010 1 次提交
  14. 12 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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  17. 28 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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  19. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  20. 20 3月, 2010 1 次提交
  21. 10 2月, 2010 4 次提交
  22. 27 1月, 2010 1 次提交
  23. 10 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics · 6b2f3d1f
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until
      Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems,
      since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the
      great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give
      O_DSYNC" comment.  This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC
      semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics.  After Jan's O_SYNC
      patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly
      simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to
      vfs_fsync_range and when not.
      
      This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's
      numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC
      flag.  To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to
      both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make
      sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers.
      
      This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can
      just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only
      places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition.  Drivers and
      network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the
      full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set.  The few places setting O_SYNC for
      lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe.
      
      We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path
      to make sure we always get these sane options.
      
      Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a
      O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op.  We try to repair it by using it for
      the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional
      O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one.
      
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
      Acked-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Acked-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      6b2f3d1f
  24. 28 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  25. 16 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  26. 10 8月, 2009 2 次提交
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      NFS: read-modify-write page updating · 38c73044
      Peter Staubach 提交于
      Hi.
      
      I have a proposal for possibly resolving this issue.
      
      I believe that this situation occurs due to the way that the
      Linux NFS client handles writes which modify partial pages.
      
      The Linux NFS client handles partial page modifications by
      allocating a page from the page cache, copying the data from
      the user level into the page, and then keeping track of the
      offset and length of the modified portions of the page.  The
      page is not marked as up to date because there are portions
      of the page which do not contain valid file contents.
      
      When a read call comes in for a portion of the page, the
      contents of the page must be read in the from the server.
      However, since the page may already contain some modified
      data, that modified data must be written to the server
      before the file contents can be read back in the from server.
      And, since the writing and reading can not be done atomically,
      the data must be written and committed to stable storage on
      the server for safety purposes.  This means either a
      FILE_SYNC WRITE or a UNSTABLE WRITE followed by a COMMIT.
      This has been discussed at length previously.
      
      This algorithm could be described as modify-write-read.  It
      is most efficient when the application only updates pages
      and does not read them.
      
      My proposed solution is to add a heuristic to decide whether
      to do this modify-write-read algorithm or switch to a read-
      modify-write algorithm when initially allocating the page
      in the write system call path.  The heuristic uses the modes
      that the file was opened with, the offset in the page to
      read from, and the size of the region to read.
      
      If the file was opened for reading in addition to writing
      and the page would not be filled completely with data from
      the user level, then read in the old contents of the page
      and mark it as Uptodate before copying in the new data.  If
      the page would be completely filled with data from the user
      level, then there would be no reason to read in the old
      contents because they would just be copied over.
      
      This would optimize for applications which randomly access
      and update portions of files.  The linkage editor for the
      C compiler is an example of such a thing.
      
      I tested the attached patch by using rpmbuild to build the
      current Fedora rawhide kernel.  The kernel without the
      patch generated about 269,500 WRITE requests.  The modified
      kernel containing the patch generated about 261,000 WRITE
      requests.  Thus, about 8,500 fewer WRITE requests were
      generated.  I suspect that many of these additional
      WRITE requests were probably FILE_SYNC requests to WRITE
      a single page, but I didn't test this theory.
      
      The difference between this patch and the previous one was
      to remove the unneeded PageDirty() test.  I then retested to
      ensure that the resulting system continued to behave as
      desired.
      
      	Thanx...
      
      		ps
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      38c73044
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      NFS: Add a ->migratepage() aop for NFS · 074cc1de
      Trond Myklebust 提交于
      Make NFS a bit more friendly to NUMA and memory hot removal...
      Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
      074cc1de
  27. 13 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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