ocfs2: Remove i_generation from inode lock names

OCFS2 puts inode meta data in the "lock value block" provided by the DLM.
Typically, i_generation is encoded in the lock name so that a deleted inode
on and a new one in the same block don't share the same lvb.

Unfortunately, that scheme means that the read in ocfs2_read_locked_inode()
is potentially thrown away as soon as the meta data lock is taken - we
cannot encode the lock name without first knowing i_generation, which
requires a disk read.

This patch encodes i_generation in the inode meta data lvb, and removes the
value from the inode meta data lock name. This way, the read can be covered
by a lock, and at the same time we can distinguish between an up to date and
a stale LVB.

This will help cold-cache stat(2) performance in particular.

Since this patch changes the protocol version, we take the opportunity to do
a minor re-organization of two of the LVB fields.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp_internal.h b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp_internal.h
index da42b515cd1..4b46aac7d24 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp_internal.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp_internal.h
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@
  * locking semantics of the file system using the protocol.  It should 
  * be somewhere else, I'm sure, but right now it isn't.
  *
+ * New in version 4:
+ * 	- Remove i_generation from lock names for better stat performance.
+ *
  * New in version 3:
  * 	- Replace dentry votes with a cluster lock
  *
@@ -51,7 +54,7 @@
  * 	- full 64 bit i_size in the metadata lock lvbs
  * 	- introduction of "rw" lock and pushing meta/data locking down
  */
-#define O2NET_PROTOCOL_VERSION 3ULL
+#define O2NET_PROTOCOL_VERSION 4ULL
 struct o2net_handshake {
 	__be64	protocol_version;
 	__be64	connector_id;