From 9e9ad5f408889db6038a59b38ede29ff1ba9ef2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:28:08 +0300 Subject: fs/ufs: get rid of write_super This patch makes UFS stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out. The way we implement this is that we schedule a delay job instead relying on 's_dirt' and '->write_super()'. The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the 'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every 5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use '->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove it together with the kernel thread. Tested using fsstress from the LTP project. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/ufs/ufs.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/ufs/ufs.h') diff --git a/fs/ufs/ufs.h b/fs/ufs/ufs.h index 528750b7e70..343e6fc571e 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/ufs.h +++ b/fs/ufs/ufs.h @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ struct ufs_sb_info { unsigned s_mount_opt; struct mutex mutex; struct task_struct *mutex_owner; + struct super_block *sb; + int work_queued; /* non-zero if the delayed work is queued */ + struct delayed_work sync_work; /* FS sync delayed work */ + spinlock_t work_lock; /* protects sync_work and work_queued */ }; struct ufs_inode_info { @@ -123,6 +127,7 @@ extern __printf(3, 4) void ufs_error(struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...); extern __printf(3, 4) void ufs_panic(struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...); +void ufs_mark_sb_dirty(struct super_block *sb); /* symlink.c */ extern const struct inode_operations ufs_fast_symlink_inode_operations; -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2