- 04 3月, 2010 3 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
No one is calling this anymore as everyone has switched to invalidate_mapping_pages long time ago. Also update a few references to it in comments. nfs has two more, but I can't easily figure what they are actually referring to, so I left them as-is. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Richard Kennedy 提交于
re-order structure super_block to remove 16 bytes of alignment padding on 64bit builds. This shrinks the size of super_block from 712 to 696 bytes so requiring one fewer 64 byte cache lines. Signed-off-by: NRichard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> ----- patch against 2.6.33-rc5 compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2 desktop machine. I've been running with this patch applied for several weeks with no problems. regards Richard Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Boaz Harrosh 提交于
Remove the EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL of simple_prepare_write Collapse simple_prepare_write into it's only caller, though making it simpler and clearer to understand. Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 19 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Richard Kennedy 提交于
This removes 8 bytes of padding from struct inode on 64bit builds, and so allows 1 more object/slab in the inode_cache when using slub. Signed-off-by: NRichard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> ---- patch against 2.6.33-rc8 compiled & tested on x86_64 AMDX2 I've been running this patch for over a week with no obvious problems regards Richard Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 14 1月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Al Viro 提交于
commit 5300990c had stepped on a rather nasty mess: definitions of ACC_MODE used to be different. Fixed the resulting breakage, converting them to variant that takes O_... value; all callers have that and it actually simplifies life (see tomoyo part of changes). Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 23 12月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Dmitry Monakhov 提交于
Quota code requires unlocked version of this function. Off course we can just copy-paste the code, but copy-pasting is always an evil. Signed-off-by: NDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Andreas Gruenbacher 提交于
This question was determined to be a bug which was fixed in commit 4a3b0a49. Signed-off-by: NAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
* pull ACC_MODE to fs.h; we have several copies all over the place * nightmarish expression calculating f_mode by f_flags deserves a helper too (OPEN_FMODE(flags)) Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 18 12月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
After I_SYNC was split from I_LOCK the leftover is always used together with I_NEW and thus superflous. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
We recently go rid of all callers of do_sync_file_range as they're better served with vfs_fsync or the filemap_write_and_wait. Now that do_sync_file_range is down to a single caller fold it into it so that people don't start using it again accidentally. While at it also switch it from using __filemap_fdatawrite_range(..., WB_SYNC_ALL) to the more clear filemap_fdatawrite_range(). Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 17 12月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Dave Chinner 提交于
Change all async metadata buffers to use [READ|WRITE]_META I/O types so that the I/O doesn't get issued immediately. This allows merging of adjacent metadata requests but still prioritises them over bulk data. This shows a 10-15% improvement in sequential create speed of small files. Don't include the log buffers in this classification - leave them as sync types so they are issued immediately. Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three different locking types and very confusing checks for some of them. The most complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not actually be used. This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read case is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to DIO_NO_LOCKING. The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the create argument for the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily move that to the actual get_blocks callbacks. There are four users of the DIO_NO_LOCKING mode: gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is fine with the new version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set, and we can remove this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses create for an error message if we are fully beyond the device which can never happen, and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for writes. Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first flag. Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a separate flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same time. Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make sense. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
All users outside of fs/ of get_empty_filp() have been removed. This patch moves the definition from the include/ directory to internal.h so no new users crop up and removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL. I'd love to see open intents stop using it too, but that's a problem for another day and a smarter developer! Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 16 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Currently the locking in blockdev_direct_IO is a mess, we have three different locking types and very confusing checks for some of them. The most complicated one is DIO_OWN_LOCKING for reads, which happens to not actually be used. This patch gets rid of the DIO_OWN_LOCKING - as mentioned above the read case is unused anyway, and the write side is almost identical to DIO_NO_LOCKING. The difference is that DIO_NO_LOCKING always sets the create argument for the get_blocks callback to zero, but we can easily move that to the actual get_blocks callbacks. There are four users of the DIO_NO_LOCKING mode: gfs already ignores the create argument and thus is fine with the new version, ocfs2 only errors out if create were ever set, and we can remove this dead code now, the block device code only ever uses create for an error message if we are fully beyond the device which can never happen, and last but not least XFS will need the new behavour for writes. Now we can replace the lock_type variable with a flags one, where no flag means the DIO_NO_LOCKING behaviour and DIO_LOCKING is kept as the first flag. Separate out the check for not allowing to fill holes into a separate flag, although for now both flags always get set at the same time. Also revamp the documentation of the locking scheme to actually make sense. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface, so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into filemap_fdatawait_range. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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- 03 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Martin K. Petersen 提交于
The discard ioctl is used by mkfs utilities to clear a block device prior to putting metadata down. However, not all devices return zeroed blocks after a discard. Some drives return stale data, potentially containing old superblocks. It is therefore important to know whether discarded blocks are properly zeroed. Both ATA and SCSI drives have configuration bits that indicate whether zeroes are returned after a discard operation. Implement a block level interface that allows this information to be bubbled up the stack and queried via a new block device ioctl. Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 26 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Vivek Goyal 提交于
There seems to be a regression in direct write path due to following commit in for-2.6.33 branch of block tree. commit 1af60fbd Author: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Date: Fri Oct 2 18:56:53 2009 -0400 block: get rid of the WRITE_ODIRECT flag Marking direct writes as WRITE_SYNC_PLUG instead of WRITE_ODIRECT, sets the NOIDLE flag in bio and hence in request. This tells CFQ to not expect more request from the queue and not idle on it (despite the fact that queue's think time is less and it is not seeky). So direct writers lose big time when competing with sequential readers. Using fio, I have run one direct writer and two sequential readers and following are the results with 2.6.32-rc7 kernel and with for-2.6.33 branch. Test ==== 1 direct writer and 2 sequential reader running simultaneously. [global] directory=/mnt/sdc/fio/ runtime=10 [seqwrite] rw=write size=4G direct=1 [seqread] rw=read size=2G numjobs=2 2.6.32-rc7 ========== direct writes: aggrb=2,968KB/s readers : aggrb=101MB/s for-2.6.33 branch ================= direct write: aggrb=19KB/s readers aggrb=137MB/s This patch brings back the WRITE_ODIRECT flag, with the difference that we don't set the BIO_RW_UNPLUG flag so that device is not unplugged after submission of request and an explicit unplug from submitter is required. That way we fix the jeff's issue of not enough merging taking place in aio path as well as make sure direct writes get their fair share. After the fix ============= for-2.6.33 + fix ---------------- direct writes: aggrb=2,728KB/s reads: aggrb=103MB/s Thanks Vivek Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 28 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeff Moyer 提交于
Hi, The WRITE_ODIRECT flag is only used in one place, and that code path happens to also call blk_run_address_space. The introduction of this flag, then, could result in the device being unplugged twice for every I/O. Further, with the batching changes in the next patch, we don't want an O_DIRECT write to imply a queue unplug. Signed-off-by: NJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 04 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Martin K. Petersen 提交于
Not all users of the topology information want to use libblkid. Provide the topology information through bdev ioctls. Also clarify sector size comments for existing BLK ioctls. Signed-off-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 02 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix KVM] Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 24 9月, 2009 6 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 npiggin@suse.de 提交于
Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok. vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and into mm/truncate.c. Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Currently we held s_umount while a filesystem is frozen, despite that we might return to userspace and unlock it from a different process. Instead grab an active reference to keep the file system busy and add an explicit check for frozen filesystems in remount and reject the remount instead of blocking on s_umount. Add a new get_active_super helper to super.c for use by freeze_bdev that grabs an active reference to a superblock from a given block device. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Now that we have the freeze count there is not much reason for bd_mount_sem anymore. The actual freeze/thaw operations are serialized using the bd_fsfreeze_mutex, and the only other place we take bd_mount_sem is get_sb_bdev which tries to prevent mounting a filesystem while the block device is frozen. Instead of add a check for bd_fsfreeze_count and return -EBUSY if a filesystem is frozen. While that is a change in user visible behaviour a failing mount is much better for this case rather than having the mount process stuck uninterruptible for a long time. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Jeff Layton 提交于
sb->s_maxbytes is supposed to indicate the maximum size of a file that can exist on the filesystem. It's declared as an unsigned long long. Even if a filesystem has no inherent limit that prevents it from using every bit in that unsigned long long, it's still problematic to set it to anything larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE. There are places in the kernel that cast s_maxbytes to a signed value. If it's set too large then this cast makes it a negative number and generally breaks the comparison. Change s_maxbytes to be loff_t instead. That should help eliminate the temptation to set it too large by making it a signed value. Also, add a warning for couple of releases to help catch filesystems that set s_maxbytes too large. Eventually we can either convert this to a BUG() or just remove it and in the hope that no one will get it wrong now that it's a signed value. Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Hugetlbfs needs to do special things instead of truncate_inode_pages(). Currently, it copied generic_forget_inode() except for truncate_inode_pages() call which is asking for trouble (the code there isn't trivial). So create a separate function generic_detach_inode() which does all the list magic done in generic_forget_inode() and call it from hugetlbfs_forget_inode(). Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 22 9月, 2009 4 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 9月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
We do this automatically in get_sb_bdev() from the set_bdev_super() callback. Filesystems that have their own private backing_dev_info must assign that in ->fill_super(). Note that ->s_bdi assignment is required for proper writeback! Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
It has been unused since it was introduced in: commit 520808bf20e90fdbdb320264ba7dd5cf9d47dcac Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Date: Fri May 21 00:46:17 2004 -0700 [PATCH] block device layer: separate backing_dev_info infrastructure So lets just kill it. Acked-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before we haven't audited all file systems. To enable truncation only for data address space define a new address_space callback error_remove_page. This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling. This can be then set to truncate_inode_page() This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation. Callers and users come in followon patches. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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- 14 9月, 2009 6 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore. Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function. Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire it before it returns. CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org CC: tytso@mit.edu Acked-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
Rename __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() to __generic_file_aio_write(), add comments to write helpers explaining how they should be used and export __generic_file_aio_write() since it will be used by some filesystems. CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Acked-by: NEvgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
This simple helper saves some filesystems conversion from byte offset to page numbers and also makes the fdata* interface more complete. Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
The commands are conceptually writes, and in the case of IDE and SCSI commands actually are writes. They were only reads because we thought that would interact better with the elevators. Now the elevators know about discard requests, that advantage no longer exists. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NMatthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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- 11 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning. pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in vmstat: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 1 0 608848 2652 375372 0 0 0 71024 604 24 1 10 48 42 0 1 0 549644 2712 433736 0 0 0 60692 505 27 1 8 48 44 1 0 0 476928 2784 505192 0 0 4 29540 553 24 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 457972 2808 524008 0 0 0 54876 331 16 0 4 38 58 0 1 0 366128 2928 614284 0 0 4 92168 710 58 0 13 53 34 0 1 0 295092 3000 684140 0 0 0 62924 572 23 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 236592 3064 741704 0 0 4 58256 523 17 0 8 48 44 0 1 0 165608 3132 811464 0 0 0 57460 560 21 0 8 54 38 0 1 0 102952 3200 873164 0 0 4 74748 540 29 1 10 48 41 0 1 0 48604 3252 926472 0 0 0 53248 469 29 0 7 47 45 where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 1 0 678716 5792 303380 0 0 0 74064 565 50 1 11 52 36 1 0 0 662488 5864 319396 0 0 4 352 302 329 0 2 47 51 0 1 0 599312 5924 381468 0 0 0 78164 516 55 0 9 51 40 0 1 0 519952 6008 459516 0 0 4 78156 622 56 1 11 52 37 1 1 0 436640 6092 541632 0 0 0 82244 622 54 0 11 48 41 0 1 0 436640 6092 541660 0 0 0 8 152 39 0 0 51 49 0 1 0 332224 6200 644252 0 0 4 102800 728 46 1 13 49 36 1 0 0 274492 6260 701056 0 0 4 12328 459 49 0 7 50 43 0 1 0 211220 6324 763356 0 0 0 106940 515 37 1 10 51 39 1 0 0 160412 6376 813468 0 0 0 8224 415 43 0 6 49 45 1 1 0 85980 6452 886556 0 0 4 113516 575 39 1 11 54 34 0 2 0 85968 6452 886620 0 0 0 1640 158 211 0 0 46 54 A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed writes. A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term, adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again. Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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