On large partition, scanning the free clusters is very slow if users
doesn't use "usefree" option.
For optimizing it, this patch uses sb_breadahead() to read of FAT
sectors. On some user's 15GB partition, this patch improved it very
much (1min => 600ms).
The following is the result of 2GB partition on my machine.
without patch:
root@devron (/)# time df -h > /dev/null
real 0m1.202s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.440s
with patch:
root@devron (/)# time df -h > /dev/null
real 0m0.378s
user 0m0.012s
sys 0m0.168s
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
FAT12 entry is 12bits, so it needs 2 phase to update the value. And
writer and reader access it without any lock, so reader can get the
half updated value.
This fixes the long standing race condition by adding a global
spinlock to only FAT12 for avoiding any impact against FAT16/32.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The fat code uses the fat_lock always in a mutex way (taking and releasing
the lock in the same function), the patch below converts it into the new
mutex primitive. Please consider this patch for the code.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
All EXPORT_SYMBOL of fatfs is only for vfat/msdos. _GPL would be proper.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It is overkill to update the FS_INFO whenever modifying
prev_free/free_clusters, because those are just a hint.
So, this patch uses ->write_super() for updating FS_INFO instead.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
OGAWA Hirofumi
Arjan van de Ven
Linus Torvalds