1. 05 1月, 2009 11 次提交
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      GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patch · 97cc1025
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd
      and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM.
      
      The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory
      pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate
      as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer
      any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept
      until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we
      demote just as many glocks as required.
      
      There are potential future changes to this code, including the
      possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back
      into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would
      be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation
      for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases
      at the same time.
      
      This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during
      the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel
      threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a
      net loss of about 200 lines of code.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      97cc1025
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      GFS2: Fix "truncate in progress" hang · 813e0c46
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      Following on from the recent clean up of gfs2_quotad, this patch moves
      the processing of "truncate in progress" inodes from the glock workqueue
      into gfs2_quotad. This fixes a hang due to the "truncate in progress"
      processing requiring glocks in order to complete.
      
      It might seem odd to use gfs2_quotad for this particular item, but
      we have to use a pre-existing thread since creating a thread implies
      a GFP_KERNEL memory allocation which is not allowed from the glock
      workqueue context. Of the existing threads, gfs2_logd and gfs2_recoverd
      may deadlock if used for this operation. gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd are
      both scheduled for removal at some (hopefully not too distant) future
      point. That leaves only gfs2_quotad whose workload is generally fairly
      light and is easily adapted for this extra task.
      
      Also, as a result of this change, it opens the way for a future patch to
      make the reading of the inode's information asynchronous with respect to
      the glock workqueue, which is another improvement that has been on the list
      for some time now.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      813e0c46
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      GFS2: Clean up & move gfs2_quotad · 37b2c837
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch is a clean up of gfs2_quotad prior to giving it an
      extra job to do in addition to the current portfolio of updating
      the quota and statfs information from time to time.
      
      As a result it has been moved into quota.c allowing one of the
      functions it calls to be made static. Also the clean up allows
      the two existing functions to have separate timeouts and also
      to coexist with its future role of dealing with the "truncate in
      progress" inode flag.
      
      The (pointless) setting of gfs2_quotad_secs is removed since we
      arrange to only wake up quotad when one of the two timers expires.
      
      In addition the struct gfs2_quota_data is moved into a slab cache,
      mainly for easier debugging. It should also be possible to use
      a shrinker in the future, rather than the current scheme of scanning
      the quota data entries from time to time.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      37b2c837
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      GFS2: Banish struct gfs2_rgrpd_host · 73f74948
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch moves the final field so that we can get rid
      of struct gfs2_rgrpd_host, as promised some time ago. Also
      by rearranging the fields slightly, we are able to reduce
      the size of the gfs2_rgrpd structure at the same time.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      73f74948
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      GFS2: Move rg_free from gfs2_rgrpd_host to gfs2_rgrpd · cfc8b549
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      The second of three fields which need to move, in order
      to remove the struct gfs2_rgrpd_host.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      cfc8b549
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      GFS2: Move rg_igeneration into struct gfs2_rgrpd · d8b71f73
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This moves one of the fields of struct gfs2_rgrpd_host into
      the struct gfs2_rgrpd with the eventual aim of removing
      the struct rgrpd_host completely.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      d8b71f73
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      GFS2: Banish struct gfs2_dinode_host · 383f01fb
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      The final field in gfs2_dinode_host was the i_flags field. Thats
      renamed to i_diskflags in order to avoid confusion with the existing
      inode flags, and moved into the inode proper at a suitable location
      to avoid creating a "hole".
      
      At that point struct gfs2_dinode_host is no longer needed and as
      promised (quite some time ago!) it can now be removed completely.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      383f01fb
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      GFS2: Move i_size from gfs2_dinode_host and rename it to i_disksize · c9e98886
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch moved the i_size field from the gfs2_dinode_host and
      following the ext3 convention renames it i_disksize.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      c9e98886
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      GFS2: Move di_eattr into "proper" inode · 3767ac21
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This moves the di_eattr field out of gfs2_inode_host and
      into the inode proper.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      3767ac21
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      GFS2: Move "entries" into "proper" inode · ad6203f2
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This moves the directory entry count into the proper inode.
      Potentially we could get this to share the space used by
      something else in the future, but this is one more step
      on the way to removing the gfs2_dinode_host structure.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      ad6203f2
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      GFS2: Move generation number into "proper" part of inode · bcf0b5b3
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This moves the generation number from the gfs2_dinode_host
      into the gfs2_inode structure. Eventually the plan is to get
      rid of the gfs2_dinode_host structure completely.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      bcf0b5b3
  2. 26 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      GFS2: Support for I/O barriers · 254db57f
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch adds barrier support to GFS2. There is not a lot of change
      really... we just add the barrier flag when we write journal header
      blocks. If the underlying device refuses to support them, we fall back
      to the previous way of doing things (wait for the I/O and hope) since
      there is nothing else we can do. There is no user configuration,
      barriers will always be on unless the device refuses to support them.
      This seems a reasonable solution to me since this is a correctness
      issue.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      254db57f
  3. 18 9月, 2008 2 次提交
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      GFS2: high time to take some time over atime · 719ee344
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed
      since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the
      "noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This
      patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we
      simply use the VFS's atime code.
      
      The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related
      mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose
      the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy
      atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that
      variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough.
      
      Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied,
      and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when
      atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well.
      
      From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of
      the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very
      least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a
      number of options which were ignored before now work correctly.
      
      Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out
      early so that you can all see what my plans are.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      719ee344
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      GFS2: The war on bloat · 37ec89e8
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      The following patch shrinks the gfs2_args structure which is embedded in
      every GFS2 superblock. It cuts down the size of the options to a single
      unsigned int (the 13 bits of bitfields will be rounded up to that size
      by the compiler) from the current 11 unsigned ints. So on x86 thats 44
      bytes shrinking to 4 bytes, in each and every GFS2 superblock.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhitho@redhat.com>
      37ec89e8
  4. 13 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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      GFS2: Fix metafs mounts · 9b8df98f
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch is intended to fix the issues reported in bz #457798. Instead
      of having the metafs as a separate filesystem, it becomes a second root
      of gfs2. As a result it will appear as type gfs2 in /proc/mounts, but it
      is still possible (for backwards compatibility purposes) to mount it as
      type gfs2meta. A new mount flag "meta" is introduced so that its possible
      to tell the two cases apart in /proc/mounts.
      
      As a result it becomes possible to mount type gfs2 with -o meta and
      get the same result as mounting type gfs2meta. So it is possible to
      mount just the metafs on its own. Currently if you do this, its then
      impossible to mount the "normal" root of the gfs2 filesystem without
      first unmounting the metafs root. I'm not sure if thats a feature or
      a bug :-)
      
      Either way, this is a great improvement on the previous scheme and I've
      verified that it works ok with bind mounts on both the "normal" root
      and the metafs root in various combinations.
      
      There were also a bunch of functions in super.c which didn't belong there,
      so this moves them into ops_fstype.c where they can be static. Hopefully
      the mount/umount sequence is now more obvious as a result.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
      9b8df98f
  5. 10 7月, 2008 2 次提交
  6. 27 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [GFS2] Clean up the glock core · 6802e340
      Steven Whitehouse 提交于
      This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the
      GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks
      like a really big change, but actually a large part of this patch
      is either removing or moving existing code.
      
      There are some new bits too though, such as the new run_queue()
      function which is considerably streamlined. Highlights of this
      patch include:
      
       o Fixes a cluster coherency bug during SH -> EX lock conversions
       o Removes the "glmutex" code in favour of a single bit lock
       o Removes the ->go_xmote_bh() for inodes since it was duplicating
         ->go_lock()
       o We now only use the ->lm_lock() function for both locks and
         unlocks (i.e. unlock is a lock with target mode LM_ST_UNLOCKED)
       o The fast path is considerably shortly, giving performance gains
         especially with lock_nolock
       o The glock_workqueue is now used for all the callbacks from the DLM
         which allows us to simplify the lock_dlm module (see following patch)
       o The way is now open to make further changes such as eliminating the two
         threads (gfs2_glockd and gfs2_scand) in favour of a more efficient
         scheme.
      
      This patch has undergone extensive testing with various test suites
      so it should be pretty stable by now.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
      Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
      6802e340
  7. 12 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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