1. 14 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  2. 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 28 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  5. 09 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      jbd: improve fsync batching · f420d4dc
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      There is a flaw with the way jbd handles fsync batching.  If we fsync() a
      file and we were not the last person to run fsync() on this fs then we
      automatically sleep for 1 jiffie in order to wait for new writers to join
      into the transaction before forcing the commit.  The problem with this is
      that with really fast storage (ie a Clariion) the time it takes to commit
      a transaction to disk is way faster than 1 jiffie in most cases, so
      sleeping means waiting longer with nothing to do than if we just committed
      the transaction and kept going.  Ric Wheeler noticed this when using
      fs_mark with more than 1 thread, the throughput would plummet as he added
      more threads.
      
      This patch attempts to fix this problem by recording the average time in
      nanoseconds that it takes to commit a transaction to disk, and what time
      we started the transaction.  If we run an fsync() and we have been running
      for less time than it takes to commit the transaction to disk, we sleep
      for the delta amount of time and then commit to disk.  We acheive
      sub-jiffie sleeping using schedule_hrtimeout.  This means that the wait
      time is auto-tuned to the speed of the underlying disk, instead of having
      this static timeout.  I weighted the average according to somebody's
      comments (Andreas Dilger I think) in order to help normalize random
      outliers where we take way longer or way less time to commit than the
      average.  I also have a min() check in there to make sure we don't sleep
      longer than a jiffie in case our storage is super slow, this was requested
      by Andrew.
      
      I unfortunately do not have access to a Clariion, so I had to use a
      ramdisk to represent a super fast array.  I tested with a SATA drive with
      barrier=1 to make sure there was no regression with local disks, I tested
      with a 4 way multipathed Apple Xserve RAID array and of course the
      ramdisk.  I ran the following command
      
      fs_mark -d /mnt/ext3-test -s 4096 -n 2000 -D 64 -t $i
      
      where $i was 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32.  I mkfs'ed the fs each time.  Here are my
      results
      
      type	threads		with patch	without patch
      sata	2		24.6		26.3
      sata	4		49.2		48.1
      sata	8		70.1		67.0
      sata	16		104.0		94.1
      sata	32		153.6		142.7
      
      xserve	2		246.4		222.0
      xserve	4		480.0		440.8
      xserve	8		829.5		730.8
      xserve	16		1172.7		1026.9
      xserve	32		1816.3		1650.5
      
      ramdisk	2		2538.3		1745.6
      ramdisk	4		2942.3		661.9
      ramdisk	8		2882.5		999.8
      ramdisk	16		2738.7		1801.9
      ramdisk	32		2541.9		2394.0
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
      Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f420d4dc
  6. 23 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      jbd: fix error handling for checkpoint io · 4afe9785
      Hidehiro Kawai 提交于
      When a checkpointing IO fails, current JBD code doesn't check the error
      and continue journaling.  This means latest metadata can be lost from both
      the journal and filesystem.
      
      This patch leaves the failed metadata blocks in the journal space and
      aborts journaling in the case of log_do_checkpoint().  To achieve this, we
      need to do:
      
      1. don't remove the failed buffer from the checkpoint list where in
         the case of __try_to_free_cp_buf() because it may be released or
         overwritten by a later transaction
      2. log_do_checkpoint() is the last chance, remove the failed buffer
         from the checkpoint list and abort the journal
      3. when checkpointing fails, don't update the journal super block to
         prevent the journaled contents from being cleaned.  For safety,
         don't update j_tail and j_tail_sequence either
      4. when checkpointing fails, notify this error to the ext3 layer so
         that ext3 don't clear the needs_recovery flag, otherwise the
         journaled contents are ignored and cleaned in the recovery phase
      5. if the recovery fails, keep the needs_recovery flag
      6. prevent cleanup_journal_tail() from being called between
         __journal_drop_transaction() and journal_abort() (a race issue
         between journal_flush() and __log_wait_for_space()
      Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
      Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4afe9785
  7. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      ext3: add an option to control error handling on file data · 0e4fb5e2
      Hidehiro Kawai 提交于
      If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks,
      the file data corruption will spread silently.  Because most of
      applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't
      notice the IO error.  It's scary for mission critical systems.  On the
      other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file
      data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable.  So this patch
      introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal
      or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data.
      
      If you mount a ext3 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data
      write error.  If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just
      call printk().  data_err=ignore is the default.
      Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0e4fb5e2
  8. 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 19 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 20 3月, 2008 1 次提交
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      fs: fix kernel-doc notation warnings · a6b91919
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      Fix kernel-doc notation warnings in fs/.
      
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/super.c:560): missing initial short description on line:
       *	mark_files_ro
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
       *	lease_get_mtime
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/locks.c:1277): missing initial short description on line:
       *	lease_get_mtime
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/namei.c:1368): missing initial short description on line:
       * lookup_one_len:  filesystem helper to lookup single pathname component
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3221): missing initial short description on line:
       * bh_uptodate_or_lock: Test whether the buffer is uptodate
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/buffer.c:3240): missing initial short description on line:
       * bh_submit_read: Submit a locked buffer for reading
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:30): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_acquire: attempt to get exclusive writeback access to a device
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:47): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_in_progress: determine whether there is writeback in progress
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/fs-writeback.c:58): missing initial short description on line:
       * writeback_release: relinquish exclusive writeback access against a device.
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:351): contents before sections
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//include/linux/jbd.h:561): contents before sections
      Warning(mmotm-2008-0314-1449//fs/jbd/transaction.c:1935): missing initial short description on line:
       * void journal_invalidatepage()
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a6b91919
  11. 07 2月, 2008 2 次提交
  12. 06 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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      jbd: Fix assertion failure in fs/jbd/checkpoint.c · d4beaf4a
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Before we start committing a transaction, we call
      __journal_clean_checkpoint_list() to cleanup transaction's written-back
      buffers.
      
      If this call happens to remove all of them (and there were already some
      buffers), __journal_remove_checkpoint() will decide to free the transaction
      because it isn't (yet) a committing transaction and soon we fail some
      assertion - the transaction really isn't ready to be freed :).
      
      We change the check in __journal_remove_checkpoint() to free only a
      transaction in T_FINISHED state.  The locking there is subtle though (as
      everywhere in JBD ;().  We use j_list_lock to protect the check and a
      subsequent call to __journal_drop_transaction() and do the same in the end
      of journal_commit_transaction() which is the only place where a transaction
      can get to T_FINISHED state.
      
      Probably I'm too paranoid here and such locking is not really necessary -
      checkpoint lists are processed only from log_do_checkpoint() where a
      transaction must be already committed to be processed or from
      __journal_clean_checkpoint_list() where kjournald itself calls it and thus
      transaction cannot change state either.  Better be safe if something
      changes in future...
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d4beaf4a
  13. 20 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  14. 18 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  15. 16 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      docbook: fix filesystems content · e6716b87
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      Fix filesystems docbook warnings.
      
      Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'name'
      Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'mode'
      Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'parent'
      Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'value'
      Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/jbd.h:404): No description found for parameter 'h_lockdep_map'
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e6716b87
  16. 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  17. 08 12月, 2006 2 次提交
  18. 30 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  19. 27 9月, 2006 3 次提交
  20. 28 8月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] JBD: split checkpoint lists · 78ce89c9
      Jan Kara 提交于
      Split the checkpoint list of the transaction into two lists.  In the first
      list we keep the buffers that need to be submitted for IO.  In the second
      list are kept buffers that were already submitted and we just have to wait
      for the IO to complete.  This should simplify a handling of checkpoint
      lists a bit and can eventually be also a performance gain.
      Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      78ce89c9
  22. 27 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 26 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  24. 23 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  25. 15 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  26. 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  27. 06 2月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] jbd: fix transaction batching · fe1dcbc4
      Andrew Morton 提交于
      Ben points out that:
      
        When writing files out using O_SYNC, jbd's 1 jiffy delay results in a
        significant drop in throughput as the disk sits idle.  The patch below
        results in a 4-5x performance improvement (from 6.5MB/s to ~24-30MB/s on my
        IDE test box) when writing out files using O_SYNC.
      
      So optimise the batching code by omitting it entirely if the process which is
      doing a sync write is the same as the one which did the most recent sync
      write.  If that's true, we're unlikely to get any other processes joining the
      transaction.
      
      (Has been in -mm for ages - it took me a long time to get on to performance
      testing it)
      
      Numbers, on write-cache-disabled IDE:
      
      /usr/bin/time -p synctest -n 10 -uf -t 1 -p 1 dir-name
      
      Unpatched:
      	40 seconds
      Patched:
      	35 seconds
      Batching disabled:
      	35 seconds
      
      This is the problematic single-process-doing-fsync case.  With multiple
      fsyncing processes the numbers are AFACIT unaltered by the patch.
      
      Aside: performance testing and instrumentation shows that the transaction
      batching almost doesn't help (testing with synctest -n 1 -uf -t 100 -p 10
      dir-name on non-writeback-caching IDE).  This is because by the time one
      process is running a synchronous commit, a bunch of other processes already
      have a transaction handle open, so they're all going to batch into the same
      transaction anyway.
      
      The batching seems to offer maybe 5-10% speedup with this workload, but I'm
      pretty sure it was more important than that when it was first developed 4-odd
      years ago...
      
      Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
      Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fe1dcbc4
  28. 07 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  29. 23 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  30. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] jbd doc: fix some kernel-doc warnings · 6c8bec6d
      Randy Dunlap 提交于
      Add structure fields kernel-doc for 2 fields in struct journal_s.
      
      Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbuf'
      Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbufsize'
      
      Convert fs/jbd/recovery.c non-static functions to kernel-doc format.
      
      fs/jbd/recovery.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use
      !I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message:
      
      Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//fs/jbd/recovery.c): no structured comments found
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6c8bec6d
  31. 28 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/* · 27496a8c
      Al Viro 提交于
       - ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated
       - missing gfp_t in fs/* added
       - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks:
         XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator.
         The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a
         different type for those but for now let's leave them alone.  That,
         BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had
         been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with
         no way to catch misuses.  Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that
         immediately...
      
      One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is
      a mix of gfp_t and error indications.  Left alone for now.
      Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      27496a8c
  32. 09 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  33. 11 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] spinlock consolidation · fb1c8f93
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van
      de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code.  It does the following
      things:
      
       - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code
      
       - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files
      
       - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock
         features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code.
      
       - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti.
      
      Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code,
      located in lib/spinlock_debug.c.  (previously we had one SMP debugging
      variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds)
      
      Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track
      write-owners.  There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too.
      All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard
      spin/rwlock lockups.
      
      The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary
      subset of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now
      lives in the generic headers:
      
       include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h       |   16
       include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h     |   16
      
      I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files,
      making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is:
      
         SMP                         |  UP
         ----------------------------|-----------------------------------
         asm/spinlock_types_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_types_up.h
         linux/spinlock_types.h      |  linux/spinlock_types.h
         asm/spinlock_smp.h          |  linux/spinlock_up.h
         linux/spinlock_api_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_api_up.h
         linux/spinlock.h            |  linux/spinlock.h
      
      /*
       * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files:
       *
       * on SMP builds:
       *
       *  asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the
       *                        initializers
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
       *                        defines the generic type and initializers
       *
       *  asm/spinlock.h:       contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel
       *                        implementations, mostly inline assembly code
       *
       *   (also included on UP-debug builds:)
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:
       *                        contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs.
       *
       *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
       *
       * on UP builds:
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_type_up.h:
       *                        contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type.
       *                        (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds)
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
       *                        defines the generic type and initializers
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_up.h:
       *                        contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP
       *                        builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt
       *                        builds)
       *
       *   (included on UP-non-debug builds:)
       *
       *  linux/spinlock_api_up.h:
       *                        builds the _spin_*() APIs.
       *
       *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
       */
      
      All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch.
      
      arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via
      crosscompilers.  m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should
      be mostly fine.
      
      From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      
        Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU).
        Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested).  I did not try to build
        non-SMP kernels.  That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary.
      
        I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t.  Doing so avoids
        some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files.  Those particular locks
        are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code.  I do NOT
        expect any new issues to arise with them.
      
       If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will
        need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops
        that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW
        (load and clear word).
      
      From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      
         ia64 fix
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
      Signed-off-by: NGrant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
      Signed-off-by: NHirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
      Signed-off-by: NBenoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      fb1c8f93
  34. 08 9月, 2005 1 次提交