- 01 7月, 2013 3 次提交
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由 Ashish Sangwan 提交于
Both hole punch and truncate use ext4_ext_rm_leaf() for removing blocks. Currently we choose the last extent as the starting point for removing blocks: ex = EXT_LAST_EXTENT(eh); This is OK for truncate but for hole punch we can optimize the extent selection as the path is already initialized. We could use this information to select proper starting extent. The code change in this patch will not affect truncate as for truncate path[depth].p_ext will always be NULL. Signed-off-by: NAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: NNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
Translate the bitfields used in various flags argument to strings to make the tracepoint output more human-readable. Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Ashish Sangwan 提交于
No need to pass file pointer when we can directly pass inode pointer. Signed-off-by: NAshish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: NNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 13 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jie Liu 提交于
Return the FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN flag as well except the FIEMAP_EXTENT_DELALLOC because the data location of an delayed allocation extent is unknown. Signed-off-by: NJie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
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- 12 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
Commit 18888cf0: "ext4: speed up truncate/unlink by not using bforget() unless needed" removed the use of EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET in the most important codepath for file systems using extents, but a similar optimization also can be done for file systems using indirect blocks, and for the two special cases in the ext4 extents code. Cc: Andrey Sidorov <qrxd43@motorola.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 05 6月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Later we would like to clear PageWriteback bit only after extent conversion from unwritten to written extents is performed. However it is not possible to start a transaction after PageWriteback is set because that violates lock ordering (and is easy to deadlock). So we have to reserve a transaction before locking pages and sending them for IO and later we use the transaction for extent conversion from ext4_end_io(). Reviewed-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
We limit the number of blocks written in a single loop of ext4_da_writepages() to 64 when inode uses indirect blocks. That is unnecessary as credit estimates for mapping logically continguous run of blocks is rather low even for inode with indirect blocks. So just lift this limitation and properly calculate the number of necessary credits. This better credit estimate will also later allow us to always write at least a single page in one iteration. Reviewed-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 01 6月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
On 32-bit architectures with 32-bit sector_t computation of data offset in ext4_xattr_fiemap() can overflow resulting in reporting bogus data location. Fix the problem by typing block number to proper type before shifting. Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 28 5月, 2013 3 次提交
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently punch hole is disabled in file systems with bigalloc feature enabled. However the recent changes in punch hole patch should make it easier to support punching holes on bigalloc enabled file systems. This commit changes partial_cluster handling in ext4_remove_blocks(), ext4_ext_rm_leaf() and ext4_ext_remove_space(). Currently partial_cluster is unsigned long long type and it makes sure that we will free the partial cluster if all extents has been released from that cluster. However it has been specifically designed only for truncate. With punch hole we can be freeing just some extents in the cluster leaving the rest untouched. So we have to make sure that we will notice cluster which still has some extents. To do this I've changed partial_cluster to be signed long long type. The only scenario where this could be a problem is when cluster_size == block size, however in that case there would not be any partial clusters so we're safe. For bigger clusters the signed type is enough. Now we use the negative value in partial_cluster to mark such cluster used, hence we know that we must not free it even if all other extents has been freed from such cluster. This scenario can be described in simple diagram: |FFF...FF..FF.UUU| ^----------^ punch hole . - free space | - cluster boundary F - freed extent U - used extent Also update respective tracepoints to use signed long long type for partial_cluster. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Add "end" variable. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
The "head removal" branch in the condition is never used in any code path in ext4 since the function only caller ext4_ext_rm_leaf() will make sure that the extent is properly split before removing blocks. Note that there is a bug in this branch anyway. This commit removes the unused code completely and makes use of ext4_error() instead of printk if dubious range is provided. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 03 5月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Yan, Zheng 提交于
We (Linux Kernel Performance project) found a regression introduced by commit: f7fec032 ext4: track all extent status in extent status tree The commit causes about 20% performance decrease in fio random write test. Profiler shows that rb_next() uses a lot of CPU time. The call stack is: rb_next ext4_es_find_delayed_extent ext4_map_blocks _ext4_get_block ext4_get_block_write __blockdev_direct_IO ext4_direct_IO generic_file_direct_write __generic_file_aio_write ext4_file_write aio_rw_vect_retry aio_run_iocb do_io_submit sys_io_submit system_call_fastpath io_submit td_io_getevents io_u_queued_complete thread_main main __libc_start_main The cause is that ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() doesn't have an upper bound, it keeps searching until a delayed extent is found. When there are a lots of non-delayed entries in the extent state tree, ext4_es_find_delayed_extent() may uses a lot of CPU time. Reported-by: NLKP project <lkp@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NYan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 20 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Darrick J. Wong 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 11 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Move ext4_ind_migrate() into migrate.c file since it makes much more sense and ext4_ext_migrate() is there as well. Also fix tiny style problem - add spaces around "=" in "i=0". Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 10 4月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently in ENOSPC condition when writing into unwritten space, or punching a hole, we might need to split the extent and grow extent tree. However since we can not allocate any new metadata blocks we'll have to zero out unwritten part of extent or punched out part of extent, or in the worst case return ENOSPC even though use actually does not allocate any space. Also in delalloc path we do reserve metadata and data blocks for the time we're going to write out, however metadata block reservation is very tricky especially since we expect that logical connectivity implies physical connectivity, however that might not be the case and hence we might end up allocating more metadata blocks than previously reserved. So in future, metadata reservation checks should be removed since we can not assure that we do not under reserve. And this is where reserved space comes into the picture. When mounting the file system we slice off a little bit of the file system space (2% or 4096 clusters, whichever is smaller) which can be then used for the cases mentioned above to prevent costly zeroout, or unexpected ENOSPC. The number of reserved clusters can be set via sysfs, however it can never be bigger than number of free clusters in the file system. Note that this patch fixes the failure of xfstest 274 as expected. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NCarlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
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- 09 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
existing locking ordering: journal-> i_data_sem, but ext4_ind_migrate() grab locks in opposite order which may result in deadlock. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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- 04 4月, 2013 6 次提交
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently when inserting extent in ext4_ext_insert_extent() we would only try to to see if we can append new extent to the found extent. If we can not, then we proceed with adding new extent into the extent tree, but then possibly merging it back again. We can avoid this situation by trying to append and prepend new extent to the existing ones. However since the new extent can be on either sides of the existing extent, we have to pick the right extent to try to append/prepend to. This patch adds the conditions to pick the right extent to append/prepend to and adds the actual prepending condition as well. This will also eliminate the need to use "reserved" block for possibly growing extent tree. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently when converting extent to initialized we attempt to transfer initialized block to the left neighbour if possible when certain criteria are met. However we do not attempt to do the same for the right neighbor. This commit adds the possibility to transfer initialized block to the right neighbour if: 1. We're not converting the whole extent 2. Both extents are stored in the same extent tree node 3. Right neighbor is initialized 4. Right neighbor is logically abutting the current one 5. Right neighbor is physically abutting the current one 6. Right neighbor would not overflow the length limit This is basically the same logic as with transferring to the left. This will gain us some performance benefits since it is faster than inserting extent and then merging it. It would also prevent some situation in delalloc patch when we might run out of metadata reservation. This is due to the fact that we would attempt to split the extent first (possibly allocating new metadata block) even though we did not counted for that because it can (and will) be merged again. This commit fix that scenario, because we no longer need to split the extent in such case. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
In order to make it simpler to test the code which support i_blocks/indirect-mapped inodes, support the conversion of inodes which are less than 12 blocks and which are contained in no more than a single extent. The primary intended use of this code is to converting freshly created zero-length files and empty directories. Note that the version of chattr in e2fsprogs 1.42.7 and earlier has a check that prevents the clearing of the extent flag. A simple patch which allows "chattr -e <file>" to work will be checked into the e2fsprogs git repository. Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
Move common code in ext4_ind_truncate() and ext4_ext_truncate() into ext4_truncate(). This saves over 60 lines of code. Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
Move common code in ext4_ind_punch_hole() and ext4_ext_punch_hole() into ext4_punch_hole(). This saves over 150 lines of code. This also fixes a potential bug when the punch_hole() code is racing against indirect-to-extents or extents-to-indirect migation. We are currently using i_mutex to protect against changes to the inode flag; specifically, the append-only, immutable, and extents inode flags. So we need to take i_mutex before deciding whether to use the extents-specific or indirect-specific punch_hole code. Also, there was a missing call to ext4_inode_block_unlocked_dio() in the indirect punch codepath. This was added in commit 02d262df to block DIO readers racing against the punch operation in the codepath for extent-mapped inodes, but it was missing for indirect-block mapped inodes. One of the advantages of refactoring the code is that it makes such oversights much less likely. Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
When an extent was zeroed out, we forgot to do convert from cpu to le16. It could make us hit a BUG_ON when we try to write dirty pages out. So fix it. [ Also fix a bug found by Dmitry Monakhov where we were missing le32_to_cpu() calls in the new indirect punch hole code. There are a number of other big endian warnings found by static code analyzers, but we'll wait for the next merge window to fix them all up. These fixes are designed to be Obviously Correct by code inspection, and easy to demonstrate that it won't make any difference (and hence, won't introduce any bugs) on little endian architectures such as x86. --tytso ] Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reported-by: NCAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Reported-by: NChristian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
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- 13 3月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently when converting extent to initialized, we have to decide whether to zeroout part/all of the uninitialized extent in order to avoid extent tree growing rapidly. The decision is made by comparing the size of the extent with the configurable value s_extent_max_zeroout_kb which is in kibibytes units. However when converting it to number of blocks we currently use it as it was in bytes. This is obviously bug and it will result in ext4 _never_ zeroout extents, but rather always split and convert parts to initialized while leaving the rest uninitialized in default setting. Fix this by using s_extent_max_zeroout_kb as kibibytes. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 11 3月, 2013 4 次提交
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由 Lukas Czerner 提交于
Currently in ext4_ext_map_blocks() in delayed allocation writeback we would update the reservation and after that check whether we claimed cluster outside of the range of the allocation and if so, we'll give the block back to the reservation pool. However this also means that if the number of reserved data block dropped to zero before the correction, we would release all the metadata reservation as well, however we might still need it because the we're not done with the delayed allocation and there might be more blocks to come. This will result in error messages such as: EXT4-fs warning (device sdb): ext4_da_update_reserve_space:361: ino 12, allocated 1 with only 0 reserved metadata blocks (releasing 1 blocks with reserved 1 data blocks) This will only happen on bigalloc file system and it can be easily reproduced using fiemap-tester from xfstests like this: ./src/fiemap-tester -m DHDHDHDHD -S -p0 /mnt/test/file Or using xfstests such as 225. Fix this by doing the correction first and updating the reservation after that so that we do not accidentally decrease i_reserved_data_blocks to zero. Signed-off-by: NLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
This commit fixes a wrong return value of the number of the allocated blocks in ext4_split_extent. When the length of blocks we want to allocate is greater than the length of the current extent, we return a wrong number. Let's see what happens in the following case when we call ext4_split_extent(). map: [48, 72] ex: [32, 64, u] 'ex' will be split into two parts: ex1: [32, 47, u] ex2: [48, 64, w] 'map->m_len' is returned from this function, and the value is 24. But the real length is 16. So it should be fixed. Meanwhile in this commit we use right length of the allocated blocks when get_reserved_cluster_alloc in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents is called. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
When we try to split an extent, this extent could be zeroed out and mark as initialized. But we don't know this in ext4_map_blocks because it only returns a length of allocated extent. Meanwhile we will mark this extent as uninitialized because we only check m_flags. This commit update extent status tree when we try to split an unwritten extent. We don't need to worry about the status of this extent because we always mark it as initialized. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
The ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents() function was assuming the return value of ext4_ext_map_blocks() is equal to map->m_len. This incorrect assumption was harmless until we started use status tree as a extent cache because we need to update status tree according to 'm_len' value. Meanwhile this commit marks EXT4_MAP_MAPPED flag after unwritten extent conversion. It shouldn't cause a bug because we update status tree according to checking EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN flag. But it should be fixed. After applied this commit, the following error message from self-testing infrastructure disappears. ... kernel: ES len assertation failed for inode: 230 retval 1 != map->m_len 3 in ext4_map_blocks (allocation) ... Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
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- 04 3月, 2013 4 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Now that we don't merge uninitialized extents anymore, ext4_fallocate() is free to operate on the inode while there are still some extent conversions pending - it won't disturb them in any way. Reviewed-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Reviewed-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
Splitting extents inside endio is a bad thing, but unfortunately it is still possible. In fact we are pretty close to the moment when all related issues will be fixed. Let's warn developer if it still the case. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
Derived from Jan's patch:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/36470 Merging of uninitialized extents creates all sorts of interesting race possibilities when writeback / DIO races with fallocate. Thus ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio() has to deal with a case where extent to be converted needs to be split out first. That isn't nice for two reasons: 1) It may need allocation of extent tree block so ENOSPC is possible. 2) It complicates end_io handling code So we disable merging of uninitialized extents which allows us to simplify the code. Extents will get merged after they are converted to initialized ones. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
When ext4_split_extent_at() ends up doing zeroout & conversion to initialized instead of split & conversion, ext4_split_extent() gets confused and can wrongly mark the extent back as uninitialized resulting in end IO code getting confused from large unwritten extents and may result in data loss. The example of problematic behavior is: lblk len lblk len ext4_split_extent() (ex=[1000,30,uninit], map=[1010,10]) ext4_split_extent_at() (split [1000,30,uninit] at 1020) ext4_ext_insert_extent() -> ENOSPC ext4_ext_zeroout() -> extent [1000,30] is now initialized ext4_split_extent_at() (split [1000,30,init] at 1010, MARK_UNINIT1 | MARK_UNINIT2) -> extent is split and parts marked as uninitialized Fix the problem by rechecking extent type after the first ext4_split_extent_at() returns. None of split_flags can not be applied to initialized extent so this patch also add BUG_ON to prevent similar issues in future. TESTCASE: https://github.com/dmonakhov/xfstests/commit/b8a55eb5ce28c6ff29e620ab090902fcd5833597Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 23 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 18 2月, 2013 6 次提交
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
Single extent cache could be removed because we have extent status tree as a extent cache, and it would be better. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
After tracking all extent status, we already have a extent cache in memory. Every time we want to lookup a block mapping, we can first try to lookup it in extent status tree to avoid a potential disk I/O. A new function called ext4_es_lookup_extent is defined to finish this work. When we try to lookup a block mapping, we always call ext4_map_blocks and/or ext4_da_map_blocks. So in these functions we first try to lookup a block mapping in extent status tree. A new flag EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_NO_PUT_HOLE is used in ext4_da_map_blocks in order not to put a hole into extent status tree because this hole will be converted to delayed extent in the tree immediately. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
By recording the phycisal block and status, extent status tree is able to track the status of every extents. When we call _map_blocks functions to lookup an extent or create a new written/unwritten/delayed extent, this extent will be inserted into extent status tree. We don't load all extents from disk in alloc_inode() because it costs too much memory, and if a file is opened and closed frequently it will takes too much time to load all extent information. So currently when we create/lookup an extent, this extent will be inserted into extent status tree. Hence, the extent status tree may not comprehensively contain all of the extents found in the file. Here a condition we need to take care is that an extent might contains unwritten and delayed status simultaneously because an extent is delayed allocated and could be allocated by fallocate. At this time we need to keep delayed status because later we need to update delayed reservation space using it. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
This commit lets ext4_ext_map_blocks return EXT4_MAP_UNWRITTEN flag because in later commit ext4_map_blocks needs to use this flag to determine the extent status. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
This commit renames ext4_es_find_extent with ext4_es_find_delayed_extent and improve this function. First, we split input and output parameter. Second, this function never return the first block of the next delayed extent after 'es'. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Zheng Liu 提交于
This commit refines the extent status tree code. 1) A prefix 'es_' is added to to the extent status tree structure members. 2) Refactored es_remove_extent() so that __es_remove_extent() can be used by es_insert_extent() to remove the old extent entry(-ies) before inserting a new one. 3) Rename extent_status_end() to ext4_es_end() 4) ext4_es_can_be_merged() is define to check whether two extents can be merged or not. 5) Update and clarified comments. Signed-off-by: NZheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com> Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 09 2月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Theodore Ts'o 提交于
So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass context information for logging purposes. The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is: T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter echo 1 > $EVENT/enable ./run-my-fs-benchmark cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms. Having longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an fsync() or an O_SYNC operation. Here is an example line from the trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over 1.2 seconds: postmark-2917 [000] .... 196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1 dirtied_blocks 0 Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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