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2009-08-31xfs: add more statics & drop some unused functionsEric Sandeen
A lot more functions could be made static, but they need forward declarations; this does some easy ones, and also found a few unused functions in the process. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
2009-06-08xfs: kill xfs_qmopsChristoph Hellwig
Kill the quota ops function vector and replace it with direct calls or stubs in the CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n case. Make sure we check XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING in the right spots. We can remove the number of those checks because the XFS_TRANS_DQ_DIRTY flag can't be set otherwise. This brings us back closer to the way this code worked in IRIX and earlier Linux versions, but we keep a lot of the more useful factoring of common code. Eventually we should also kill xfs_qm_bhv.c, but that's left for a later patch. Reduces the size of the source code by about 250 lines and the size of XFS module by about 1.5 kilobytes with quotas enabled: text data bss dec hex filename 615957 2960 3848 622765 980ad fs/xfs/xfs.o 617231 3152 3848 624231 98667 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old Fallout: - xfs_qm_dqattach is split into xfs_qm_dqattach_locked which expects the inode locked and xfs_qm_dqattach which does the locking around it, thus removing XFS_QMOPT_ILOCKED. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
2009-04-06xfs: use xfs_sync_inodes() for device flushingDave Chinner
Currently xfs_device_flush calls sync_blockdev() which is a no-op for XFS as all it's metadata is held in a different address to the one sync_blockdev() works on. Call xfs_sync_inodes() instead to flush all the delayed allocation blocks out. To do this as efficiently as possible, do it via two passes - one to do an async flush of all the dirty blocks and a second to wait for all the IO to complete. This requires some modification to the xfs-sync_inodes_ag() flush code to do efficiently. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-03-29xfs: remove m_attroffsetChristoph Hellwig
With the upcoming v3 inodes the default attroffset needs to be calculated for each specific inode, so we can't cache it in the superblock anymore. Also replace the assert for wrong inode sizes with a proper error check also included in non-debug builds. Note that the ENOSYS return for that might seem odd, but that error is returned by xfs_mount_validate_sb for all theoretically valid but not supported filesystem geometries. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
2009-03-29xfs: fix various typosMalcolm Parsons
Signed-off-by: Malcolm Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-03-29xfs: remove m_litinoChristoph Hellwig
With the upcoming v3 inodes the inode data/attr area size needs to be calculated for each specific inode, so we can't cache it in the superblock anymore. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
2009-03-29xfs: kill ino64 mount optionChristoph Hellwig
The ino64 mount option adds a fixed offset to 32bit inode numbers to bring them into the 64bit range. There's no need for this kind of debug tool given that it's easy to produce real 64bit inode numbers for testing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
2009-02-09xfs: get rid of indirections in the quotaops implementationChristoph Hellwig
Currently we call from the nicely abstracted linux quotaops into a ugly multiplexer just to split the calls out at the same boundary again. Rewrite the quota ops handling to remove that obfucation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2009-02-09xfs: remove superflous inobt macrosChristoph Hellwig
xfs_ialloc_btree.h has a a cuple of macros that only obsfucate the code but don't provide any abstraction benefits. This patches removes those and cleans up the reamaining defintions up a little. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2009-02-04xfs: remove unused XFS_MOUNT_ILOCK/XFS_MOUNT_IUNLOCKChristoph Hellwig
These aren't only unused but also reference a lock that doesn't exist anymore. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
2009-01-19xfs: fix bad_features2 fixups for the root filesystemChristoph Hellwig
Currently the bad_features2 fixup and the alignment updates in the superblock are skipped if we mount a filesystem read-only. But for the root filesystem the typical case is to mount read-only first and only later remount writeable so we'll never perform this update at all. It's not a big problem but means the logs of people needing the fixup get spammed at every boot because they never happen on disk. Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2009-01-16[XFS] Remove the rest of the macro-to-function indirections.Eric Sandeen
Remove the last of the macros-defined-to-static-functions. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-11[XFS] resync headers with libxfsChristoph Hellwig
- xfs_sb.h add the XFS_SB_VERSION2_PARENTBIT features2 that has been around in userspace for some time - xfs_inode.h: move a few things out of __KERNEL__ that are needed by userspace - xfs_mount.h: only include xfs_sync.h under __KERNEL__ - xfs_inode.c: minor whitespace fixup. I accidentaly changes this when importing this file for use by userspace. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-12-04kill xfs_unmount_flushChristoph Hellwig
There's almost nothing left in this function, instead remove the IRELE on the real times inodes and the call to XFS_QM_UNMOUNT into xfs_unmountfs. For the regular unmount case that means it now also happenes after dmapi notification, but otherwise there is no difference in behaviour. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-04no explicit xfs_iflush for special inodes during unmountChristoph Hellwig
Currently we explicitly call xfs_iflush on the quota, real-time and root inodes from xfs_unmount_flush. But we just called xfs_sync_inodes with SYNC_ATTR and do an XFS_bflush aka xfs_flush_buftarg to make sure all inodes are on disk already, so there is no need for these special cases. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-04remove leftovers of shared read-only supportChristoph Hellwig
We never supported shared read-only filesystems, so remove the dead code left over from IRIX for it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-04remove unused m_inode_quiesce member from struct xfs_mountChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-04cleanup the inode reclaim pathChristoph Hellwig
Merge xfs_iextract and xfs_idestroy into xfs_ireclaim as they are never called individually. Also rewrite most comments in this area as they were severly out of date. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-01[XFS] remove xfs_vfs.hChristoph Hellwig
The only thing left are the forced shutdown flags and freeze macros which fit into xfs_mount.h much better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-12-01[XFS] remove bhv_statvfs_t typedefChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
2008-10-30[XFS] kill struct xfs_mount_argsChristoph Hellwig
No need to parse the mount option into a structure before applying it to struct xfs_mount. The content of xfs_start_flags gets merged into xfs_parseargs. Calls inbetween don't care and can use mount members instead of the args struct. This patch uncovered that the mount option for shared filesystems wasn't ever exposed on Linux. The code to handle it is #if 0'ed in this patch pending a decision on this feature. I'll send a writeup about it to the list soon. SGI-PV: 987246 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32371a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30[XFS] Move the AIL lock into the struct xfs_ailDavid Chinner
Bring the ail lock inside the struct xfs_ail. This means the AIL can be entirely manipulated via the struct xfs_ail rather than needing both the struct xfs_mount and the struct xfs_ail. SGI-PV: 988143 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32350a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] Allocate the struct xfs_ailDavid Chinner
Rather than embedding the struct xfs_ail in the struct xfs_mount, allocate it during AIL initialisation. Add a back pointer to the struct xfs_ail so that we can pass around the xfs_ail and still be able to access the xfs_mount if need be. This is th first step involved in isolating the AIL implementation from the surrounding filesystem code. SGI-PV: 988143 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32346a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] kill deleted inodes listDavid Chinner
Now that the deleted inodes list is unused, kill it. This also removes the i_reclaim list head from the xfs_inode, shrinking it by two pointers. SGI-PV: 988142 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32334a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] use xfs_sync_inodes rather than xfs_syncsubDavid Chinner
Kill the unused arg in xfs_syncsub() and xfs_sync_inodes(). For callers of xfs_syncsub() that only want to flush inodes, replace xfs_syncsub() with direct calls to xfs_sync_inodes() as that is all that is being done with the specific flags being passed in. SGI-PV: 988140 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32305a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] remove the mount inode listDavid Chinner
Now we've removed all users of the mount inode list, we can kill it. This reduces the size of the xfs_inode by 2 pointers. SGI-PV: 988139 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32293a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] Cleanup maxrecs calculation.Christoph Hellwig
Clean up the way the maximum and minimum records for the btree blocks are calculated. For the alloc and inobt btrees all the values are pre-calculated in xfs_mount_common, and we switch the current loop around the ugly generic macros that use cpp token pasting to generate type names to two small helpers in normal C code. For the bmbt and bmdr trees these helpers also exist, but can be called during runtime, too. Here we also kill various macros dealing with them and inline the logic into the get_minrecs / get_maxrecs / get_dmaxrecs methods in xfs_bmap_btree.c. Note that all these new helpers take an xfs_mount * argument which will be needed to determine the size of a btree block once we add support for extended btree blocks with CRCs and other RAS information. SGI-PV: 988146 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32292a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30[XFS] move xfssyncd code to xfs_sync.cDavid Chinner
Move all the xfssyncd code to the new xfs_sync.c file. This places it closer to the actual code that it interacts with, rather than just being associated with high level VFS code. SGI-PV: 988139 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32283a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-10-30[XFS] Sync up kernel and user-space headersBarry Naujok
SGI-PV: 986558 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32231a Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-10-30[XFS] Remove final remnants of dirv1 macros and other stuffBarry Naujok
SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:32002a Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-08-13[XFS] xfs_unmountfs should return voidChristoph Hellwig
xfs_unmounts can't and shouldn't return errors so declare it as returning void. SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31833a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-08-13[XFS] cleanup xfs_mountfsChristoph Hellwig
Remove all the useless flags and code keyed off it in xfs_mountfs. SGI-PV: 981498 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31831a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28[XFS] streamline init/exit pathChristoph Hellwig
Currently the xfs module init/exit code is a mess. It's farmed out over a lot of function with very little error checking. This patch makes sure we propagate all initialization failures properly and clean up after them. Various runtime initializations are replaced with compile-time initializations where possible to make this easier. The exit path is similarly consolidated. There's now split out function to create/destroy the kmem zones and alloc/free the trace buffers. I've also changed the ktrace allocations to KM_MAYFAIL and handled errors resulting from that. And yes, we really should replace the XFS_*_TRACE ifdefs with a single XFS_TRACE.. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31354a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28[XFS] Name operation vector for hash and compareBarry Naujok
Adds two pieces of functionality for the basis of case-insensitive support in XFS: 1. A comparison result enumerated type: xfs_dacmp. It represents an exact match, case-insensitive match or no match at all. This patch only implements different and exact results. 2. xfs_nameops vector for specifying how to perform the hash generation of filenames and comparision methods. In this patch the hash vector points to the existing xfs_da_hashname function and the comparison method does a length compare, and if the same, does a memcmp and return the xfs_dacmp result. All filename functions that use the hash (create, lookup remove, rename, etc) now use the xfs_nameops.hashname function and all directory lookup functions also use the xfs_nameops.compname function. The lookup functions also handle case-insensitive results even though the default comparison function cannot return that. And important aspect of the lookup functions is that an exact match always has precedence over a case-insensitive. So while a case-insensitive match is found, we have to keep looking just in case there is an exact match. In the meantime, the info for the first case-insensitive match is retained if no exact match is found. SGI-PV: 981519 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31205a Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2008-07-28[XFS] kill xfs_mount_initChristoph Hellwig
xfs_mount_init is inlined into xfs_fs_fill_super and allocation switched to kzalloc. Plug a leak of the mount structure for most early mount failures. Move xfs_icsb_init_counters to as late as possible in the mount path and make sure to undo it so that no stale hotplug cpu notifiers are left around on mount failures. SGI-PV: 981951 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31196a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28[XFS] sort out opening and closing of the block devicesChristoph Hellwig
Currently closing the rt/log block device is done in the wrong spot, and far too early. So revampt it: - xfs_blkdev_put moved out of xfs_free_buftarg into the caller so that it is done after tearing down the buftarg completely. - call to xfs_unmountfs_close moved from xfs_mountfs into caller so that it's done after tearing down the filesystem completely. - xfs_unmountfs_close is renamed to xfs_close_devices and made static in xfs_super.c - opening of the block devices is split into a helper xfs_open_devices that is symetric in use to xfs_close_devices - xfs_unmountfs can now lose struct cred - error handling around device opening sanitized in xfs_fs_fill_super SGI-PV: 981951 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31193a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28[XFS] Fix up noattr2 so that it will properly update the versionnum andTim Shimmin
features2 fields. Previously, mounting with noattr2 failed to achieve anything because although it cleared the attr2 mount flag, it would set it again as soon as it processed the superblock fields. The fix now has an explicit noattr2 flag and uses it later to fix up the versionnum and features2 fields. SGI-PV: 980021 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31003a Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-29[XFS] fix non-smp xfs buildEric Sandeen
xfs_reserve_blocks() calls xfs_icsb_sync_counters_locked(), which is not defined if !CONFIG_SMP/!HAVE_PERCPU_SB SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30991a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-29[XFS] kill XFS_ICSB_SB_LOCKEDChristoph Hellwig
With the last two patches XFS_ICSB_SB_LOCKED is never checked and only superflously passed to xfs_icsb_count, so kill it. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30920a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-29[XFS] Add xfs_icsb_sync_counters_locked for when m_sb_lock already heldChristoph Hellwig
Add a new xfs_icsb_sync_counters_locked for the case where m_sb_lock is already taken and add a flags argument to xfs_icsb_sync_counters so that xfs_icsb_sync_counters_flags is not needed. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30917a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] remove bhv_vname_t and xfs_rename codeBarry Naujok
SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30804a Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] Replace custom AIL linked-list code with struct list_headJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
Replace the xfs_ail_entry_t with a struct list_head and clean the surrounding code up. Also fixes a livelock in xfs_trans_first_push_ail() by terminating the loop at the head of the list correctly. SGI-PV: 978682 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30636a Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] cleanup vnode use in dmapi callsChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30545a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18[XFS] kill xfs_rwlock/xfs_rwunlockChristoph Hellwig
We can just use xfs_ilock/xfs_iunlock instead and get rid of the ugly bhv_vrwlock_t. SGI-PV: 976035 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30533a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-28[XFS] If you mount an XFS filesystem with no mount options at all, thenJosef Jeff Sipek
the "ikeep" option is set rather than "noikeep". This regression was introduced in 970451. With no mount options specified, xfs_parseargs() does the following: int ikeep = 0; args->flags |= XFSMNT_BARRIER; args->flags2 |= XFSMNT2_COMPAT_IOSIZE; if (!options) goto done; It only sets the above two options by default and before, it also used to set XFSMNT_IDELETE by default. If options are specified, then if (!(args->flags & XFSMNT_DMAPI) && !ikeep) args->flags |= XFSMNT_IDELETE; is executed later on which is skipped by the "goto done;" above. The solution is to invert the logic. SGI-PV: 977771 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30590a Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Move AIL pushing into it's own threadDavid Chinner
When many hundreds to thousands of threads all try to do simultaneous transactions and the log is in a tail-pushing situation (i.e. full), we can get multiple threads walking the AIL list and contending on the AIL lock. The AIL push is, in effect, a simple I/O dispatch algorithm complicated by the ordering constraints placed on it by the transaction subsystem. It really does not need multiple threads to push on it - even when only a single CPU is pushing the AIL, it can push the I/O out far faster that pretty much any disk subsystem can handle. So, to avoid contention problems stemming from multiple list walkers, move the list walk off into another thread and simply provide a "target" to push to. When a thread requires a push, it sets the target and wakes the push thread, then goes to sleep waiting for the required amount of space to become available in the log. This mechanism should also be a lot fairer under heavy load as the waiters will queue in arrival order, rather than queuing in "who completed a push first" order. Also, by moving the pushing to a separate thread we can do more effectively overload detection and prevention as we can keep context from loop iteration to loop iteration. That is, we can push only part of the list each loop and not have to loop back to the start of the list every time we run. This should also help by reducing the number of items we try to lock and/or push items that we cannot move. Note that this patch is not intended to solve the inefficiencies in the AIL structure and the associated issues with extremely large list contents. That needs to be addresses separately; parallel access would cause problems to any new structure as well, so I'm only aiming to isolate the structure from unbounded parallelism here. SGI-PV: 972759 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30371a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] kill xfs_iocore_tChristoph Hellwig
xfs_iocore_t is a structure embedded in xfs_inode. Except for one field it just duplicates fields already in xfs_inode, and there is nothing this abstraction buys us on XFS/Linux. This patch removes it and shrinks source and binary size of xfs aswell as shrinking the size of xfs_inode by 60/44 bytes in debug/non-debug builds. SGI-PV: 970852 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29754a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Cleanup lock goop.Eric Sandeen
Switch last couple lock_t's to spinlock_t's. Remove now-unused spinlock-related macros & types. SGI-PV: 970382 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29748a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Unwrap XFS_SB_LOCK.Eric Sandeen
Un-obfuscate XFS_SB_LOCK, remove XFS_SB_LOCK->mutex_lock->spin_lock macros, call spin_lock directly, remove extraneous cookie holdover from old xfs code, and change lock type to spinlock_t. SGI-PV: 970382 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29746a Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2008-02-07[XFS] Unwrap AIL_LOCKDonald Douwsma
SGI-PV: 970382 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29739a Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>