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Mark Fasheh
0027dd5bc2 ocfs2: Remove special casing for inode creation in ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock()
We can't use LKM_LOCAL for new dentry locks because an unlink and subsequent
re-create of a name/inode pair may result in the lock still being mastered
somewhere in the cluster.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24 13:50:45 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
80c05846f6 ocfs2: Add dentry tracking API
Replace the dentry vote mechanism with a cluster lock which covers a set
of dentries. This allows us to force d_delete() only on nodes which actually
care about an unlink.

Every node that does a ->lookup() gets a read only lock on the dentry, until
an unlink during which the unlinking node, will request an exclusive lock,
forcing the other nodes who care about that dentry to d_delete() it. The
effect is that we retain a very lightweight ->d_revalidate(), and at the
same time get to make large improvements to the average case performance of
the ocfs2 unlink and rename operations.

This patch adds the higher level API and the dentry manipulation code.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24 13:50:43 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
d680efe9d8 ocfs2: Add new cluster lock type
Replace the dentry vote mechanism with a cluster lock which covers a set
of dentries. This allows us to force d_delete() only on nodes which actually
care about an unlink.

Every node that does a ->lookup() gets a read only lock on the dentry, until
an unlink during which the unlinking node, will request an exclusive lock,
forcing the other nodes who care about that dentry to d_delete() it. The
effect is that we retain a very lightweight ->d_revalidate(), and at the
same time get to make large improvements to the average case performance of
the ocfs2 unlink and rename operations.

This patch adds the cluster lock type which OCFS2 can attach to
dentries.  A small number of fs/ocfs2/dcache.c functions are stubbed
out so that this change can compile.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-09-24 13:50:42 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
ccd979bdbc [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem
The OCFS2 file system module.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
2006-01-03 11:45:47 -08:00