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2009-12-08ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsyncJan Kara
We cannot rely on buffer dirty bits during fsync because pdflush can come before fsync is called and clear dirty bits without forcing a transaction commit. What we do is that we track which transaction has last changed the inode and which transaction last changed allocation and force it to disk on fsync. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-23ext4: avoid issuing unnecessary barriersTheodore Ts'o
We don't to issue an I/O barrier on an error or if we force commit because we are doing data journaling. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-09-28ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate supportMingming Cao
For async direct IO that covers holes or fallocate, the end_io callback function now queued the convertion work on workqueue but don't flush the work rightaway as it might take too long to afford. But when fsync is called after all the data is completed, user expects the metadata also being updated before fsync returns. Thus we need to flush the conversion work when fsync() is called. This patch keep track of a listed of completed async direct io that has a work queued on workqueue. When fsync() is called, it will go through the list and do the conversion. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-12ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal modeTheodore Ts'o
When there is no journal present, we must attach buffer heads associated with extent tree and indirect blocks to the inode's mapping->private_list via mark_buffer_dirty_inode() so that ext4_sync_file() --- which is called to service fsync() and fdatasync() system calls --- can write out the inode's metadata blocks by calling sync_mapping_buffers(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-05ext4: fix cache flush in ext4_sync_fileChristoph Hellwig
We need to flush the write cache unconditionally in ->fsync, otherwise writes into already allocated blocks can get lost. Writes into fully allocated files are very common when using disk images for virtualization, and without this fix can easily lose data after an fdatasync, which is the typical implementation for a cache flush on the virtual drive. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-06-17ext4: convert instrumentation from markers to tracepointsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-05ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtapTheodore Ts'o
This debugging markers are designed to debug problems such as the random filesystem latency problems reported by Arjan. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errorsTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11ext4: call blkdev_issue_flush on fsyncEric Sandeen
To ensure that bits are truly on-disk after an fsync, we should call blkdev_issue_flush if barriers are supported. Inspired by an old thread on barriers, by reiserfs & xfs which do the same, and by a patch SuSE ships with their kernel Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29ext4: move headers out of include/linuxChristoph Hellwig
Move ext4 headers out of include/linux. This is just the trivial move, there's some more thing that could be done later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-17ext4: fdatasync should skip metadata writeout when overwritingHisashi Hifumi
Currently fdatasync is identical to fsync in ext3. I think fdatasync should skip journal flush in data=ordered and data=writeback mode when it overwrites to already-instantiated blocks on HDD. When I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is not set, fdatasync should skip journal writeout because this indicates only atime or/and mtime updates. Following patch is the same approach of ext2's fsync code(ext2_sync_file). I did a performance test using the sysbench. #sysbench --num-threads=128 --max-requests=50000 --test=fileio --file-total-size=128G --file-test-mode=rndwr --file-fsync-mode=fdatasync run The result on ext3 was: -2.6.24 Operations performed: 0 Read, 50080 Write, 59600 Other = 109680 Total Read 0b Written 782.5Mb Total transferred 782.5Mb (12.116Mb/sec) 775.45 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 64.5814s total number of events: 50080 total time taken by event execution: 3713.9836 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0742s max: 0.9375s approx. 95 percentile: 0.2901s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 391.2500/23.26 execution time (avg/stddev): 29.0155/1.99 -2.6.24-patched Operations performed: 0 Read, 50009 Write, 61596 Other = 111605 Total Read 0b Written 781.39Mb Total transferred 781.39Mb (16.419Mb/sec) 1050.83 Requests/sec executed Test execution summary: total time: 47.5900s total number of events: 50009 total time taken by event execution: 2934.5768 per-request statistics: min: 0.0000s avg: 0.0587s max: 0.8938s approx. 95 percentile: 0.1993s Threads fairness: events (avg/stddev): 390.6953/22.64 execution time (avg/stddev): 22.9264/1.17 Filesystem I/O throughput was improved. Signed-off-by :Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2007-10-17ext4: sparse fixesAneesh Kumar K.V
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2006-10-11[PATCH] jbd2: enable building of jbd2 and have ext4 use it rather than jbdMingming Cao
Reworked from a patch by Mingming Cao and Randy Dunlap Signed-off-By: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ext4: rename ext4 symbols to avoid duplication of ext3 symbolsMingming Cao
Mingming Cao originally did this work, and Shaggy reproduced it using some scripts from her. Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ext4: initial copy of files from ext3Dave Kleikamp
Start of the ext4 patch series. See Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt for details. This is a simple copy of the files in fs/ext3 to fs/ext4 and /usr/incude/linux/ext3* to /usr/include/ex4* Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>