The "greedy" code was an attempt to retain glocks for a minimum length
of time when they relate to mmap()ed files. The current implementation
of this feature is not, however, ideal in that it required allocating
memory in order to do this and its overly complicated.
It also misses the mark by ignoring the other I/O operations which are
just as likely to suffer from the same problem. So the plan is to remove
this now and then add the functionality back as part of the glock state
machine at a later date (and thus take into account all the possible
users of this feature)
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is something I spotted (while looking for something entirely
different) the other day.
Rather than using a completion in each and every struct gfs2_holder,
this removes it in favour of hashed wait queues, thus saving a
considerable amount of memory both on the stack (where a number of
gfs2_holder structures are allocated) and in particular in the
gfs2_inode which has 8 gfs2_holder structures embedded within it.
As a result on x86_64 the gfs2_inode shrinks from 2488 bytes to
1912 bytes, a saving of 576 bytes per inode (no thats not a typo!).
In actual practice we get a much better result than that since
now that a gfs2_inode is under the 2048 byte barrier, we get two
per 4k slab page effectively halving the amount of memory required
to store gfs2_inodes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes the extra filldir callback which gfs2 was using to
enclose an attempt at readahead for inodes during readdir. The
code was too complicated and also hurts performance badly in the
case that the getdents64/readdir call isn't being followed by
stat() and it wasn't even getting it right all the time when it
was.
As a result, on my test box an "ls" of a directory containing 250000
files fell from about 7mins (freshly mounted, so nothing cached) to
between about 15 to 25 seconds. When the directory content was cached,
the time taken fell from about 3mins to about 4 or 5 seconds.
Interestingly in the cached case, running "ls -l" once reduced the time
taken for subsequent runs of "ls" to about 6 secs even without this
patch. Now it turns out that there was a special case of glocks being
used for prefetching the metadata, but because of the timeouts for these
locks (set to 10 secs) the metadata was being timed out before it was
being used and this the prefetch code was constantly trying to prefetch
the same data over and over.
Calling "ls -l" meant that the inodes were brought into memory and once
the inodes are cached, the glocks are not disposed of until the inodes
are pushed out of the cache, thus extending the lifetime of the glocks,
and thus bringing down the time for subsequent runs of "ls"
considerably.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
It occurred to me that although a gfs2 specific writepages for ordered
writes and journaled data would be tricky, by hooking writepages only
for "data=writeback" mounts we could take advantage of not needing
buffer heads (we don't use them on the read side, nor have we for some
time) and create much larger I/Os for the block layer.
Using blktrace both before and after, its possible to see that for large
I/Os, most of the requests generated through writepages are now 1024
sectors after this patch is applied as opposed to 8 sectors before.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1:
>...
> git-gfs2-nmw.patch
>...
> git trees
>...
This patch makes the needlessly globlal gfs2_change_nlink_i() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is for Red Hat bugzilla bug bz #222302:
Moving a virtual IP from node to node between two NFS-over-GFS2
servers was causing one of the GFS2 servers to become confused and
reference a deleted inode. The problem was due to vfs dentries that did
not reference the gfs2_dops and therefore didn't call the gfs2 revalidate
code to revalidate a dentry after a directory had been deleted & recreated.
This patch is a crosswrite from a RHEL4 bug found in GFS1 as
bz #190756 and it is against the latest -nmw git tree.
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Second round of gfs2_rename lock re-ordering to allow Anaconda adding
root partition on top of gfs2. Previous to this patch the recursive
lock detector in glock.c can be triggered due to attempting to lock
the rgrp twice. This fixes it by checking to see whether the rgrp
is already locked.
This fixes Red Hat bugzilla #221237
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Update the quilt header comments to match the
code changes.
Change gfs2_lookup_simple to return an error in the case
of a NULL inode.
The callers of gfs2_lookup_simple do not check for NULL
in the no entry case and such would end up dereferencing a NULL ptr.
This fixes:
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-15-11-2006.html
Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In case of unlinked files with dirty pages GFS2 wasn't clearing
the pages in quite the right order. This patch clears the pages
earlier (before the qlock_dq) to avoid the situation that the
release of the glock results in attempting to write back data that
has already been deallocated.
This fixes Red Hat bugzilla: #220117
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Bugzilla 215088
Fix deadlock in gfs2_change_nlink() while installing RHEL5 into GFS2
partition. The gfs2_rename() apparently needs block allocation for the
new name (into the directory) where it requires rg locks. At the same
time, while updating the nlink count for the replaced file,
gfs2_change_nlink() tries to return the inode meta-data back to resource
group where it needs rg locks too. Our logic doesn't allow process to
acquire these locks recursively by the same process (RHEL installer)
that results a BUG call. This only happens within rename code path and
only if the destination file exists before the rename operation.
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is partially derrived from a patch written by Russell Cattelan.
It fixes a bug where there is a race between readpages and truncate
by ignoring readpages for stuffed files. This is ok because a stuffed
file will never be more than one block (minus sizeof(struct gfs2_dinode))
in size and block size is always less than page size, so we do not lose
anything efficiency-wise by not doing readahead for stuffed files. They
will have already been "read ahead" by the action of reading the inode
in, in the first place.
This is the remaining part of the fix for Red Hat bugzilla #218966
which had not yet made it upstream.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
This patch fixes Red Hat bugzilla #212627 in which a deadlock occurs
due to trying to take the i_mutex while holding a glock. The correct
locking order is defined as i_mutex -> glock in all cases.
I've left dealing with allocating writes. I know that we need to do
that, but for now this should do the trick. We don't need to take the
i_mutex on write, because the VFS has already taken it for us. On read
we don't need it since the glock is enough protection. The reason that
I've made some of the checks into a separate function is that we'll need
to do the checks again in the allocating write case eventually, so this
is partly in preparation for this. Likewise the return value test of !=
1 might look a bit odd and thats because we'll need a third return value
in case of requiring an allocation.
I've made the change to deferred mode on the glock to ensure flushing
read caches on other nodes. I notice that (using blktrace to look at
whats going on) we appear to do a better job of large I/Os than ext3
after this patch (in terms of not splitting up the I/Os).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
If an fs has already been shut down, a lockfs callback should do nothing.
An fs that's been shut down can't acquire locks or do anything with
respect to the cluster.
Also, remove FIXME comment in withdraw function. The missing bits of the
withdraw procedure are now all done by user space.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore so that xfs_freeze -f /mnt/newtest;
xfs_freeze -u /mnt/newtest works safely and doesn't produce lockdep warnings.
(XFS unlocks the semaphore from a different task, by design. The mutex
code warns about this)
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here is a patch to fix up the Kconfig so that we don't land up with
problems when people disable the NET subsystem. Thanks for all the hints and
suggestions that people have sent me regarding this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Chris Zubrzycki <chris@middle--earth.org>
Cc: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (73 commits)
[DLM] Clean up lowcomms
[GFS2] Change gfs2_fsync() to use write_inode_now()
[GFS2] Fix indent in recovery.c
[GFS2] Don't flush everything on fdatasync
[GFS2] Add a comment about reading the super block
[GFS2] Mount problem with the GFS2 code
[GFS2] Remove gfs2_check_acl()
[DLM] fix format warnings in rcom.c and recoverd.c
[GFS2] lock function parameter
[DLM] don't accept replies to old recovery messages
[DLM] fix size of STATUS_REPLY message
[GFS2] fs/gfs2/log.c:log_bmap() fix printk format warning
[DLM] fix add_requestqueue checking nodes list
[GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_getattr
[GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_permission
[GFS2] Reduce number of arguments to meta_io.c:getbuf()
[GFS2] Move gfs2_meta_syncfs() into log.c
[GFS2] Fix journal flush problem
[GFS2] mark_inode_dirty after write to stuffed file
[GFS2] Fix glock ordering on inode creation
...
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a bit better than the previous version of gfs2_fsync()
although it would be better still if we were able to call a
function which only wrote the inode & metadata. Its no big deal
though that this will potentially write the data as well since
the VFS has already done that before calling gfs2_fsync(). I've
also added a comment to explain whats going on here.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
As per comments from Andrew Morton and Jan Engelhardt, this fixes the
indent and removes the "static" from a variable declaration since its
not needed in this case (now allocated on the stack of the function
in question).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Conflicts:
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
include/linux/libata.h
Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
The gfs2_fsync() function was doing a journal flush on each
and every call. While this is correct, its also a lot of
overhead. This patch means that on fdatasync flushes we
rely on the VFS to flush the data for us and we don't do
a journal flush unless we really need to.
We have to do a journal flush for stuffed files though because
they have the data and the inode metadata in the same block.
Journaled files also need a journal flush too of course.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The comment explains why we use the bio functions to read
the super block.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
While mounting the gfs2 filesystem,our test team had a problem and we
got this error message.
=======================================================
GFS2: fsid=: Trying to join cluster "lock_nolock", "dasde1"
GFS2: fsid=dasde1.0: Joined cluster. Now mounting FS...
GFS2: not a GFS2 filesystem
GFS2: fsid=dasde1.0: can't read superblock: -22
==========================================================================
On debugging further we found that problem is while reading the super
block(gfs2_read_super) and comparing the magic number in it.
When I replace the submit_bio() call(present in gfs2_read_super) with
the sb_getblk() and ll_rw_block(), mount operation succeded.
On further analysis we found that before calling submit_bio(),
bio->bi_sector was set to "sector" variable. This "sector" variable has
the same value of bh->b_blocknr(block number). Hence there is a need to
multiply this valuwith (blocksize >> 9)(9 because,sector size
2^9,samething happens in ll_rw_block also, before calling submit_bio()).
So I have developed the patch which solves this problem. Please let me
know your comments.
================================================================
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As pointed out by Adrian Bunk, the gfs2_check_acl() function is no
longer used. This patch removes it and renamed gfs2_check_acl_locked()
to gfs2_check_acl() since we only need one variant of that function now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Fix function parameter typing:
fs/gfs2/glock.c💯 warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a printk format warning in fs/gfs2/log.c:
fs/gfs2/log.c:322: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'sector_t'
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The readdirplus NFS operation can result in gfs2_getattr being
called with the glock already held. In this case we do not want
to try and grab the lock again.
This fixes Red Hat bugzilla #215727
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since gfs2_permission may be called either from the VFS (in which case
we need to obtain a shared glock) or from GFS2 (in which case we already
have a glock) we need to test to see whether or not a lock is required.
The original test was buggy due to a potential race. This one should
be safe.
This fixes Red Hat bugzilla #217129
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since the superblock and the address_space are determined by the
glock, we might as well just pass that as the argument since all
the callers already have that available.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fixes a bug which resulted in poor performance due to flushing
the journal too often. The code path in question was via the inode_go_sync()
function in glops.c. The solution is not to flush the journal immediately
when inodes are ejected from memory, but batch up the work for glockd to
deal with later on. This means that glocks may now live on beyond the end of
the lifetime of their inodes (but not very much longer in the normal case).
Also fixed in this patch is a bug (which was hidden by the bug mentioned above) in
calculation of the number of free journal blocks.
The gfs2_logd process has been altered to be more responsive to the journal
filling up. We now wake it up when the number of uncommitted journal blocks
has reached the threshold level rather than trying to flush directly at the
end of each transaction. This again means doing fewer, but larger, log
flushes in general.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The go_sync callback took two flags, but one of them was set on every
call, so this patch removes once of the flags and makes the previously
conditional operations (on this flag), unconditional.
The go_inval callback took three flags, each of which was set on every
call to it. This patch removes the flags and makes the operations
unconditional, which makes the logic rather more obvious.
Two now unused flags are also removed from incore.h.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
GFS2 requires the CRC32 library function. This was reported by
Toralf Förster.
Cc: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When deleting directory entries, we set the inum.no_addr to zero
in a dirent when its the first dirent in a block and thus cannot
be merged into the previous dirent as is the usual case. In gfs1,
inum.no_formal_ino was used instead.
This patch changes gfs2 to set both inum.no_addr and inum.no_formal_ino
to zero. It also changes the test from just looking at inum.no_addr to
look at both inum.no_addr and inum.no_formal_ino and a sentinel is
now considered to be a dirent in which _either_ (or both) of them
is set to zero.
This resolves Red Hat bugzillas: #215809, #211465
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The gfs2_glock_nq_m_atime function is unused in so far as its only
ever called with num_gh = 1, and this falls through to the
gfs2_glock_nq_atime function, so we might as well call that directly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This moves the locking for bmap into the bmap function itself
rather than using a wrapper function. It also fixes a bug where
the boundary flag was set on the wrong bh. Also the flags on
the mapped bh are reset earlier in the function to ensure that
they are 100% correct on the error path.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Change from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS as this was causing a
slow down when trying to push inodes from cache.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Stuffed files only consist of a maximum of
(gfs2 block size - sizeof(struct gfs2_dinode)) bytes. Since the
gfs2 block size is always less than page size, we will never see
a call to stuffed_readpage for anything other than the first page
in the file.
Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The log lock is dropped prior to io submittion, but
this exposes a hole in which the log data structures
may be going away due to a truncate.
Store the buffer head in a local pointer prior to
dropping the lock and relay on the buffer_head lock
for consitency on the buffer head.
Signed-Off-By: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This function wasn't really doing the right thing. There was no need
to update the inode size at this point and the updating of the
i_blocks field has now been moved to the places where di_blocks is
updated. A result of this patch and some those preceeding it is that
unlocking a glock is now a much more efficient process, since there
is no longer any requirement to copy data from the gfs2 inode into
the vfs inode at this point.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since the inode number is constant, we don't need to keep updating
it everytime we refresh the other inode fields.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We were setting the inode flags from GFS2's flags far too often, even when they
couldn't possibly have changed. This patch reduces the amount of flag
setting going on so that we do it only when the inode is read in or
when the flags have changed. The create case is covered by the "when
the inode is read in" case.
This also fixes a bug where we didn't set S_SYNC correctly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fixes a race between the glock and the page lock encountered
during truncate in gfs2_readpage and gfs2_prepare_write. The gfs2_readpages
function doesn't need the same fix since it only uses a try lock anyway, so
it will fail back to gfs2_readpage in the case of a potential deadlock.
This bug was spotted by Russell Cattelan.
Cc: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse
Adrian Bunk
Robert Peterson
S. Wendy Cheng
Russell Cattelan
David Teigland
David Chinner
Josef Sipek
Linus Torvalds
Christoph Lameter
David Howells
Al Viro
Srinivasa Ds
Randy Dunlap
Ryusuke Konishi