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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2007-10-15 16:29:05 +0100
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2008-01-25 08:07:16 +0000
commitf91a0d3e24e4b0198be5fae20d45a35c40d1efce (patch)
treecda8095f9befd25cbfaf5f63a4c8ca26870d45ca /fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
parent3cc3f710ce0effe397b830826a1a081fa81f11c7 (diff)
[GFS2] Remove useless i_cache from inodes
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: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/meta_io.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/meta_io.c81
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 71 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 4da423985e4..01ef90253ed 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ void gfs2_remove_from_journal(struct buffer_head *bh, struct gfs2_trans *tr, int
}
if (bd) {
if (bd->bd_ail) {
- gfs2_remove_from_ail(NULL, bd);
+ gfs2_remove_from_ail(bd);
bh->b_private = NULL;
bd->bd_bh = NULL;
bd->bd_blkno = bh->b_blocknr;
@@ -358,32 +358,6 @@ void gfs2_meta_wipe(struct gfs2_inode *ip, u64 bstart, u32 blen)
}
/**
- * gfs2_meta_cache_flush - get rid of any references on buffers for this inode
- * @ip: The GFS2 inode
- *
- * This releases buffers that are in the most-recently-used array of
- * blocks used for indirect block addressing for this inode.
- */
-
-void gfs2_meta_cache_flush(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
-{
- struct buffer_head **bh_slot;
- unsigned int x;
-
- spin_lock(&ip->i_spin);
-
- for (x = 0; x < GFS2_MAX_META_HEIGHT; x++) {
- bh_slot = &ip->i_cache[x];
- if (*bh_slot) {
- brelse(*bh_slot);
- *bh_slot = NULL;
- }
- }
-
- spin_unlock(&ip->i_spin);
-}
-
-/**
* gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer - Get a metadata buffer
* @ip: The GFS2 inode
* @height: The level of this buf in the metadata (indir addr) tree (if any)
@@ -391,8 +365,6 @@ void gfs2_meta_cache_flush(struct gfs2_inode *ip)
* @new: Non-zero if we may create a new buffer
* @bhp: the buffer is returned here
*
- * Try to use the gfs2_inode's MRU metadata tree cache.
- *
* Returns: errno
*/
@@ -401,58 +373,25 @@ int gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer(struct gfs2_inode *ip, int height, u64 num,
{
struct gfs2_sbd *sdp = GFS2_SB(&ip->i_inode);
struct gfs2_glock *gl = ip->i_gl;
- struct buffer_head *bh = NULL, **bh_slot = ip->i_cache + height;
- int in_cache = 0;
-
- BUG_ON(!gl);
- BUG_ON(!sdp);
-
- spin_lock(&ip->i_spin);
- if (*bh_slot && (*bh_slot)->b_blocknr == num) {
- bh = *bh_slot;
- get_bh(bh);
- in_cache = 1;
- }
- spin_unlock(&ip->i_spin);
-
- if (!bh)
- bh = getbuf(gl, num, CREATE);
-
- if (!bh)
- return -ENOBUFS;
+ struct buffer_head *bh;
+ int ret = 0;
if (new) {
- if (gfs2_assert_warn(sdp, height))
- goto err;
- meta_prep_new(bh);
+ BUG_ON(height == 0);
+ bh = gfs2_meta_new(gl, num);
gfs2_trans_add_bh(ip->i_gl, bh, 1);
gfs2_metatype_set(bh, GFS2_METATYPE_IN, GFS2_FORMAT_IN);
gfs2_buffer_clear_tail(bh, sizeof(struct gfs2_meta_header));
} else {
u32 mtype = height ? GFS2_METATYPE_IN : GFS2_METATYPE_DI;
- if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
- ll_rw_block(READ_META, 1, &bh);
- if (gfs2_meta_wait(sdp, bh))
- goto err;
+ ret = gfs2_meta_read(gl, num, DIO_WAIT, &bh);
+ if (ret == 0 && gfs2_metatype_check(sdp, bh, mtype)) {
+ brelse(bh);
+ ret = -EIO;
}
- if (gfs2_metatype_check(sdp, bh, mtype))
- goto err;
- }
-
- if (!in_cache) {
- spin_lock(&ip->i_spin);
- if (*bh_slot)
- brelse(*bh_slot);
- *bh_slot = bh;
- get_bh(bh);
- spin_unlock(&ip->i_spin);
}
-
*bhp = bh;
- return 0;
-err:
- brelse(bh);
- return -EIO;
+ return ret;
}
/**