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David Chinner
da353b0d64 [XFS] Radix tree based inode caching
One of the perpetual scaling problems XFS has is indexing it's incore
inodes. We currently uses hashes and the default hash sizes chosen can
only ever be a tradeoff between memory consumption and the maximum
realistic size of the cache.

As a result, anyone who has millions of inodes cached on a filesystem
needs to tunes the size of the cache via the ihashsize mount option to
allow decent scalability with inode cache operations.

A further problem is the separate inode cluster hash, whose size is based
on the ihashsize but is smaller, and so under certain conditions (sparse
cluster cache population) this can become a limitation long before the
inode hash is causing issues.

The following patchset removes the inode hash and cluster hash and
replaces them with radix trees to avoid the scalability limitations of the
hashes. It also reduces the size of the inodes by 3 pointers....

SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29481a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-10-15 16:50:50 +10:00
David Chinner
2a82b8be8a [XFS] Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams
In media spaces, video is often stored in a frame-per-file format. When
dealing with uncompressed realtime HD video streams in this format, it is
crucial that files do not get fragmented and that multiple files a placed
contiguously on disk.

When multiple streams are being ingested and played out at the same time,
it is critical that the filesystem does not cross the streams and
interleave them together as this creates seek and readahead cache miss
latency and prevents both ingest and playout from meeting frame rate
targets.

This patch set creates a "stream of files" concept into the allocator to
place all the data from a single stream contiguously on disk so that RAID
array readahead can be used effectively. Each additional stream gets
placed in different allocation groups within the filesystem, thereby
ensuring that we don't cross any streams. When an AG fills up, we select a
new AG for the stream that is not in use.

The core of the functionality is the stream tracking - each inode that we
create in a directory needs to be associated with the directories' stream.
Hence every time we create a file, we look up the directories' stream
object and associate the new file with that object.

Once we have a stream object for a file, we use the AG that the stream
object point to for allocations. If we can't allocate in that AG (e.g. it
is full) we move the entire stream to another AG. Other inodes in the same
stream are moved to the new AG on their next allocation (i.e. lazy
update).

Stream objects are kept in a cache and hold a reference on the inode.
Hence the inode cannot be reclaimed while there is an outstanding stream
reference. This means that on unlink we need to remove the stream
association and we also need to flush all the associations on certain
events that want to reclaim all unreferenced inodes (e.g. filesystem
freeze).

SGI-PV: 964469
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29096a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
2007-07-14 15:40:53 +10:00
Nathan Scott
764d1f89a5 [XFS] Implement the silent parameter to fill_super, previously ignored.
SGI-PV: 951299
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25632a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-03-31 13:04:17 +10:00
Nathan Scott
9f4cbecd7e [XFS] XFS propagates MS_NOATIME through two levels internally but doesn't
actually use it.  Kill this dead code.	Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
<hch@lst.de>

SGI-PV: 904196
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25086a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-03-14 13:05:30 +11:00
Nathan Scott
13059ff04c [XFS] Reverse the sense of COMPAT_ATTR and ATTR2, keeps it simple and
consistent.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:202961a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-01-11 15:32:01 +11:00
Nathan Scott
e718eeb4fe [XFS] Rework the final mount options flag bit to make room for more.
SGI-PV: 943866
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:24030a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 15:09:22 +11:00
Nathan Scott
7b71876980 [XFS] Update license/copyright notices to match the prefered SGI
boilerplate.

SGI-PV: 913862
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23903a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 14:58:39 +11:00
Nathan Scott
af4e34a527 [XFS] Ondisk format extension for extended attributes (attr2). Basically,
the data/attr forks now grow up/down from either end of the literal area,
rather than dividing the literal area into two chunks and growing both
upward.  Means we can now make much more efficient use of the attribute
space, incl. fitting DMF attributes inline in 256 byte inodes, and large
jumps in dbench3 performance numbers.  It is self enabling, but can be
forced on/off via the attr2/noattr2 mount options.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23836a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:35:46 +11:00
David Chinner
e8c8b3a79d [XFS] Introduce two new mount options (nolargeio/largeio) to allow
filesystems to expose the filesystem stripe width in stat(2) rather than
the page cache size. This allows applications requiring high bandwidth to
easily determine the optimum I/O size for the underlying filesystem. The
default is to report the page cache size (i.e. "nolargeio").

SGI-PV: 942818
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23830a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:33:05 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
f538d4da8d [XFS] write barrier support Issue all log sync operations as ordered
writes.  In addition flush the disk cache on fsync if the sync cached
operation didn't sync the log to disk (this requires some additional
bookeping in the transaction and log code). If the device doesn't claim to
support barriers, the filesystem has an extern log volume or the trial
superblock write with barriers enabled failed we disable barriers and
print a warning.  We should probably fail the mount completely, but that
could lead to nasty boot failures for the root filesystem.  Not enabled by
default yet, needs more destructive testing first.

SGI-PV: 912426
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198723a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02 10:26:59 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00