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Steven Whitehouse
e8c92ed769 GFS2: Clean up log write code path
Prior to this patch, we have two ways of sending i/o to the log.
One of those is used when we need to allocate both the data
to be written itself and also a buffer head to submit it. This
is done via sb_getblk and friends. This is used mostly for writing
log headers.

The other method is used when writing blocks which have some
in-place counterpart. This is the case for all the metadata
blocks which are journalled, and when journaled data is in use,
for unescaped journalled data blocks.

This patch replaces both of those two methods, and about half
a dozen separate i/o submission points with a single i/o
submission function. We also go direct to bio rather than
using buffer heads, since this allows us to build i/o
requests of the maximum size for the block device in
question. It also reduces the memory required for flushing
the log, which can be very useful in low memory situations.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-04-24 16:44:34 +01:00
Bob Peterson
36f5580be1 GFS2: Use slab for block reservation memory
This patch changes block reservations so it uses slab storage.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-04-24 16:44:29 +01:00
Steven Whitehouse
75ca61c101 GFS2: Remove a __GFP_NOFAIL allocation
In order to ensure that we've got enough buffer heads for flushing
the journal, the orignal code used __GFP_NOFAIL when performing
this allocation. Here we dispense with that in favour of using a
mempool. This should improve efficiency in low memory conditions
since flushing the journal is a good way to get memory back, we
don't want to be spinning, waiting on memory allocations. The
buffers which are allocated via this mempool are fairly short lived,
so that we'll recycle them pretty quickly.

Although there are other memory allocations which occur during the
journal flush process, this is the one which can potentially require
the most memory, so the most important one to fix.

The amount of memory reserved is a fixed amount, and we should not need
to scale it when there are a greater number of filesystems in use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-03-08 12:10:23 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
009d851837 GFS2: Metadata address space clean up
Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store
the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using
this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields
were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient.

The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address
space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to
be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating
to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it
(depending on the remotely requested lock mode).

This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to
its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all
inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain
as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second
inode.

This results in three major improvements:
 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes
 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks
 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c

Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the
second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean
ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 14:07:37 +00:00
Steven Whitehouse
37b2c8377c GFS2: Clean up & move gfs2_quotad
This patch is a clean up of gfs2_quotad prior to giving it an
extra job to do in addition to the current portfolio of updating
the quota and statfs information from time to time.

As a result it has been moved into quota.c allowing one of the
functions it calls to be made static. Also the clean up allows
the two existing functions to have separate timeouts and also
to coexist with its future role of dealing with the "truncate in
progress" inode flag.

The (pointless) setting of gfs2_quotad_secs is removed since we
arrange to only wake up quotad when one of the two timers expires.

In addition the struct gfs2_quota_data is moved into a slab cache,
mainly for easier debugging. It should also be possible to use
a shrinker in the future, rather than the current scheme of scanning
the quota data entries from time to time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-01-05 07:39:05 +00:00
Harvey Harrison
8e24eea728 fs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse
da755fdb41 [GFS2] Remove lm.[ch] and distribute content
The functions in lm.c were just wrappers which were mostly
only used in one other file. By moving the functions to
the files where they are being used, they can be marked
static and also this will usually result in them being inlined
since they are often only used from one point in the code.

A couple of really trivial functions have been inlined by hand
into the function which called them as it makes the code clearer
to do that.

We also gain from one fewer function call in the glock lock and
unlock paths.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-03-31 10:40:26 +01:00
Bob Peterson
6bdd9be628 [GFS2] Allocate gfs2_rgrpd from slab memory
This patch moves the gfs2_rgrpd structure to its own slab
memory.  This makes it easier to control and monitor, and
yields less memory fragmentation.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-03-31 10:40:07 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1c1afa3c05 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (73 commits)
  [DLM] Clean up lowcomms
  [GFS2] Change gfs2_fsync() to use write_inode_now()
  [GFS2] Fix indent in recovery.c
  [GFS2] Don't flush everything on fdatasync
  [GFS2] Add a comment about reading the super block
  [GFS2] Mount problem with the GFS2 code
  [GFS2] Remove gfs2_check_acl()
  [DLM] fix format warnings in rcom.c and recoverd.c
  [GFS2] lock function parameter
  [DLM] don't accept replies to old recovery messages
  [DLM] fix size of STATUS_REPLY message
  [GFS2] fs/gfs2/log.c:log_bmap() fix printk format warning
  [DLM] fix add_requestqueue checking nodes list
  [GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_getattr
  [GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_permission
  [GFS2] Reduce number of arguments to meta_io.c:getbuf()
  [GFS2] Move gfs2_meta_syncfs() into log.c
  [GFS2] Fix journal flush problem
  [GFS2] mark_inode_dirty after write to stuffed file
  [GFS2] Fix glock ordering on inode creation
  ...
2006-12-07 09:13:20 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Al Viro
b44b84d765 [GFS2] gfs2 misc endianness annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-11-30 10:33:46 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
f2f7ba5237 [GFS2] Make headers compile on their own
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, this should make all the headers
compile on their own by including and/or declaring structures
early.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05 10:39:21 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
cd915493fc [GFS2] Change all types to uX style
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04 12:49:07 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
e9fc2aa091 [GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.h
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
"v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
declarations which are not required.

The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
and removed the unused lvb.[ch].

I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
struct gfs2_holder.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-01 11:05:15 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
3a8a9a1034 [GFS2] Update copyright date to 2006
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-05-18 15:09:15 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
1e09ae544e [GFS2] Move BUG() back into the header file
In order to make the file and line number reporting work
correctly, this has been moved back into the header file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-04-21 15:52:46 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
a74604bee2 [GFS2] sem -> mutex conversion in locking.c
Convert a semaphore to a mutex in locking.c and also tidy
up one or two loose ends.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-04-21 15:10:46 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
e3167ded1f [GFS] Fix bug in endian conversion for metadata header
In some cases 16 bit functions were being used rather than 32 bit
functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-30 15:46:23 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
71b86f562b [GFS2] Further updates to dir and logging code
This reduces the size of the directory code by about 3k and gets
readdir() to use the functions which were introduced in the previous
directory code update.

Two memory allocations are merged into one. Eliminates zeroing of some
buffers which were never used before they were initialised by
other data.

There is still scope for further improvement in the directory code.

On the logging side, a hand created mutex has been replaced by a
standard Linux mutex in the log allocation code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-03-28 14:14:04 -05:00
Steven Whitehouse
666a2c534c [GFS2] Remove unused code from various files
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-18 10:29:04 +00:00
David Teigland
b3b94faa5f [GFS2] The core of GFS2
This patch contains all the core files for GFS2.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-16 16:50:04 +00:00