In the recent patches to update the AIL list code, I managed to
forget that the ail list lock got dropped, even though I
added a comment specifically to remind myself :(
Reported-by: NBarry Marson <bmarson@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Add a tracepoint for monitoring writeback of the AIL.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch adds writeback_control to writing back the AIL
list. This means that we can then take advantage of the
information we get in ->write_inode() in order to set off
some pre-emptive writeback.

In addition, the AIL code is cleaned up a bit to make it
a bit simpler to understand.

There is still more which can usefully be done in this area,
but this is a good start at least.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

In order to ensure that the mapping stats (and thus the bdi) are correctly
updated, this patch changes the AIL writeback to use the filemap_datawrite
function. This helps prevent stalls in balance_dirty_pages() due to
large amounts of dirty metadata when there is little or no dirty data
around.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The previous patch missed a couple of places where the AIL list
needed locking, so this fixes up those places, plus a comment
is corrected too.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

The log lock is currently used to protect the AIL lists and
the movements of buffers into and out of them. The lists
are self contained and no log specific items outside the
lists are accessed when starting or emptying the AIL lists.

Hence the operation of the AIL does not require the protection
of the log lock so split them out into a new AIL specific lock
to reduce the amount of traffic on the log lock. This will
also reduce the amount of serialisation that occurs when
the gfs2_logd pushes on the AIL to move it forward.

This reduces the impact of log pushing on sequential write
throughput.
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Looks like this crept in, in a recent update.
Reported-by: NKrzysztof Urbaniak <urban@bash.org.pl>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Switch to the WRITE_FLUSH_FUA flag for log writes, remove the EOPNOTSUPP
detection for barriers and stop setting the barrier flag for discards.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

A barrier request should by defintion have priority in get_request
and let the queue be unplugged immediately as it's blocking all forward
progress due to the queue draining.

Most filesystems already get this implicitly by the way how submit_bh
treats the buffer_ordered flag, and gfs2 sets it explicitly.  But btrfs
and XFS are still forgetting to set the flag, as is blkdev_issue_flush
and some places in DM/MD.

For XFS on metadata heavy workloads this gives a consistent speedup
in the 2-3% range.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

The previous patch I wrote for reclaiming unlinked dinodes
had some shortcomings and did not prevent all hangs.
This version is much cleaner and more logical, and has
passed very difficult testing.  Sorry for the churn.
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The following patch adds a message to indicate when barriers have been
disabled due to a block device which doesn't support them. You could
already tell this via the mount options in /proc/mounts, but all the
other filesystems also log a message at the same time.

Also, the same mechanisms are used to indicate when the lock
demote interface has been used (only ever used for debugging)
which is a request from our support team.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch contains various tweaks to how log flushes and active item writeback
work. gfs2_logd is now managed by a waitqueue, and gfs2_log_reseve now waits
for gfs2_logd to do the log flushing.  Multiple functions were rewritten to
remove the need to call gfs2_log_lock(). Instead of using one test to see if
gfs2_logd had work to do, there are now seperate tests to check if there
are two many buffers in the incore log or if there are two many items on the
active items list.

This patch is a port of a patch Steve Whitehouse wrote about a year ago, with
some minor changes.  Since gfs2_ail1_start always submits all the active items,
it no longer needs to keep track of the first ai submitted, so this has been
removed. In gfs2_log_reserve(), the order of the calls to
prepare_to_wait_exclusive() and wake_up() when firing off the logd thread has
been switched.  If it called wake_up first there was a small window for a race,
where logd could run and return before gfs2_log_reserve was ready to get woken
up. If gfs2_logd ran, but did not free up enough blocks, gfs2_log_reserve()
would be left waiting for gfs2_logd to eventualy run because it timed out.
Finally, gt_logd_secs, which controls how long to wait before gfs2_logd times
out, and flushes the log, can now be set on mount with ar_commit.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

GFS2 tracks the number of revokes and unrevokes that are part of committed
transactions via sd_log_commited_revoke. It is possible for one process to add
revokes during its transaction, while another process unrevokes them during its
transaction. If the second process finishes its transaction first,
sd_log_commited_revoke will be decremented by the number of unrevokes that the
second process did, without first being incremented by the number of revokes
the first process did. This is fine, since all started transactions must be
completed before the journal can be flushed.  However, sd_log_commited_revoke
is an unsigned integer, and log_refund() causes an assertion failure if it
would go negative at the end of a transaction.  This patch makes
sd_log_commited_revoke a signed integer and allows it to go negative.
__gfs2_log_flush() still checks that it mataches the actual number of revokes.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

There are two spare field in the header common to all GFS2
metadata. One is just the right size to fit a journal id
in it, and this patch updates the journal code so that each
time a metadata block is modified, we tag it with the journal
id of the node which is performing the modification.

The reason for this is that it should make it much easier to
debug issues which arise if we can tell which node was the
last to modify a particular metadata block.

Since the field is updated before the block is written into
the journal, each journal should only contain metadata which
is tagged with its own journal id. The one exception to this
is the journal header block, which might have a different node's
id in it, if that journal was recovered by another node in the
cluster.

Thus each journal will contain a record of which nodes recovered
it, via the journal header.

The other field in the metadata header could potentially be
used to hold information about what kind of operation was
performed, but for the time being we just zero it on each
transaction so that if we use it for that in future, we'll
know that the information (where it exists) is reliable.

I did consider using the other field to hold the journal
sequence number, however since in GFS2's journaling we write
the modified data into the journal and not the original
data, this gives no information as to what action caused the
modification, so I think we can probably come up with a better
use for those 64 bits in the future.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch adds the ability to trace various aspects of the GFS2
filesystem. The trace points are divided into three groups,
glocks, logging and bmap. These points have been chosen because
they allow inspection of the major internal functions of GFS2
and they are also generic enough that they are unlikely to need
any major changes as the filesystem evolves.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

After Jens recent updates:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1f242524c3c1f5d40f1c9c343427e34d1aadd6e
et al. this is a patch to bring gfs2 uptodate with the core
code. Also I've managed to squash another call to ll_rw_block()
along the way.

There is still one part of the GFS2 I/O paths which are not correctly
annotated and that is due to the sharing of the writeback code between
the data and metadata address spaces. I would like to change that too,
but this patch is still worth doing on its own, I think.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This is the big patch that I've been working on for some time
now. There are many reasons for wanting to make this change
such as:
 o Reducing overhead by eliminating duplicated fields between structures
 o Simplifcation of the code (reduces the code size by a fair bit)
 o The locking interface is now the DLM interface itself as proposed
   some time ago.
 o Fewer lookups of glocks when processing replies from the DLM
 o Fewer memory allocations/deallocations for each glock
 o Scope to do further optimisations in the future (but this patch is
   more than big enough for now!)

Please note that (a) this patch relates to the lock_dlm module and
not the DLM itself, that is still a separate module; and (b) that
we retain the ability to build GFS2 as a standalone single node
filesystem with out requiring the DLM.

This patch needs a lot of testing, hence my keeping it I restarted
my -git tree after the last merge window. That way, this has the maximum
exposure before its merged. This is (modulo a few minor bug fixes) the
same patch that I've been posting on and off the the last three months
and its passed a number of different tests so far.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

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>

Annotate the &sdp->sd_log_lock.
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

since unsigned, unused >= 0 is always true.
Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch is performance related.  When we're doing a log flush,
I noticed we were calling buf_lo_incore_commit twice: once for
data bufs and once for metadata bufs.  Since this is the same
function and does the same thing in both cases, there should be
no reason to call it twice.  Since we only need to call it once,
we can also make it faster by removing it from the generic "lops"
code and making it a stand-along static function.
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Although the values were all being calculated correctly, there was a
race in the assert due to the way it was using atomic variables. This
changes the value we assert on so that we get the same effect by testing
a different variable. This prevents the assert triggering when it shouldn't.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

A missing offset in the calculation.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch saves a little time when gfs2 writes to the journals by
keeping a mapping between logical and physical blocks on disk.
That's better than constantly looking up indirect pointers in
buffers, when the journals are several levels of indirection
(which they typically are).
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch is just a cleanup.  Function gfs2_get_block() just calls
function gfs2_block_map reversing the last two parameters.  By
reversing the parameters, gfs2_block_map() may be called directly
and function gfs2_get_block may be eliminated altogether.
Since this function is done for every block operation,
this streamlines the code and makes it a little bit more efficient.
Signed-off-by: NBob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The issue is indeed UP vs SMP and it is totally random.

spin_is_locked() is a bad assertion because there is no correct answer on UP.
on UP spin_is_locked() has to return either one value or another, always.

This means that in my setup I am lucky enough to trigger the issue and your you
are lucky enough not to.

the patch in attachment removes the bogus calls to BUG_ON and according to David
(in CC and thanks for the long explanation on the problem) we can rely upon
things like lockdep to find problem that might be trying to catch.
Signed-off-by: NFabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

We only care about the content of the jindex in two cases,
one is when we mount the fs and the other is when we need
to recover another journal. In both cases we have to update
the jindex anyway, so there is no point in updating it
periodically between times, so this removes it to simplify
gfs2_logd.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This means that we can mark gfs2_ail1_empty static and prepares
the way for further changes.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch changes the counter which keeps track of the free
blocks in the journal to an atomic_t in preparation for the
following patch which will update the log reservation code.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The only reason for adding glocks to the journal was to keep track
of which locks required a log flush prior to release. We add a
flag to the glock to allow this check to be made in a simpler way.

This reduces the size of a glock (by 12 bytes on i386, 24 on x86_64)
and means that we can avoid extra work during the journal flush.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This patch resolves a lock ordering issue where we had been getting
a transaction lock in the wrong order with respect to the page lock.
By using writepages rather than just writepage, it is then possible
to start a transaction before locking the page, and thus matching the
locking order elsewhere in the code.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks
used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked
up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places
where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been
the cause of many bugs.

In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the
disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes
it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which
would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The mapping may be NULL by the time the I/O has completed, so
we now get the superblock by a different route (via the bd and glock)
to avoid this problem.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>

This patch cleans up the code for writing journaled data into the log.
It also removes the need to allocate a small "tag" structure for each
block written into the log. Instead we just keep count of the outstanding
I/O so that we can be sure that its all been written at the correct time.
Another result of this patch is that a number of ll_rw_block() calls
have become submit_bh() calls, closing some races at the same time.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The following alters gfs2_trans_add_revoke() to take a struct
gfs2_bufdata as an argument. This eliminates the memory allocation which
was previously required by making use of the already existing struct
gfs2_bufdata. It makes some sanity checks to ensure that the
gfs2_bufdata has been removed from all the lists before its recycled as
a revoke structure. This saves one memory allocation and one free per
revoke structure.

Also as a result, and to simplify the locking, since there is no longer
any blocking code in gfs2_trans_add_revoke() we must hold the log lock
whenever this function is called. This reduces the amount of times we
take and unlock the log lock.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

The following patch removes the ordered write processing from
databuf_lo_before_commit() and moves it to log.c. This has the effect of
greatly simplyfying databuf_lo_before_commit() and well as potentially
making the ordered write code more efficient.

As a side effect of this, its now possible to remove ordered buffers
from the ordered buffer list at any time, so we now make use of this in
invalidatepage and releasepage to ensure timely release of these
buffers.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

This collects together the operations required to remove a gfs2_bufdata
from the ail lists. Its only called from two places to start with, but
expect to see more of this function in future.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>