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Theodore Ts'o
0ae45f63d4 vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option
Add a new mount option which enables a new "lazytime" mode.  This mode
causes atime, mtime, and ctime updates to only be made to the
in-memory version of the inode.  The on-disk times will only get
updated when (a) if the inode needs to be updated for some non-time
related change, (b) if userspace calls fsync(), syncfs() or sync(), or
(c) just before an undeleted inode is evicted from memory.

This is OK according to POSIX because there are no guarantees after a
crash unless userspace explicitly requests via a fsync(2) call.

For workloads which feature a large number of random write to a
preallocated file, the lazytime mount option significantly reduces
writes to the inode table.  The repeated 4k writes to a single block
will result in undesirable stress on flash devices and SMR disk
drives.  Even on conventional HDD's, the repeated writes to the inode
table block will trigger Adjacent Track Interference (ATI) remediation
latencies, which very negatively impact long tail latencies --- which
is a very big deal for web serving tiers (for example).

Google-Bug-Id: 18297052

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2015-02-05 02:45:00 -05:00
Dmitry V. Levin
9d4d65748a vfs: make mounts and mountstats honor root dir like mountinfo does
As we already show mountpoints relative to the root directory, thanks
to the change made back in 2000, change show_vfsmnt() and show_vfsstat()
to skip out-of-root mountpoints the same way as show_mountinfo() does.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-12-17 08:27:15 -05:00
Dmitry V. Levin
9ad4dc4f73 vfs: cleanup show_mountinfo
Starting with commit v3.2-rc4-1-g02125a8, seq_path_root() no longer
changes the value of its "struct path *root" argument.
Starting with commit v3.2-rc7-104-g8c9379e, the "struct path *root"
argument of seq_path_root() is const.
As result, the temporary variable "root" in show_mountinfo() that
holds a copy of struct path root is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-12-17 08:27:15 -05:00
Eric W. Biederman
728dba3a39 namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
The synchronous syncrhonize_rcu in switch_task_namespaces makes setns
a sufficiently expensive system call that people have complained.

Upon inspect nsproxy no longer needs rcu protection for remote reads.
remote reads are rare.  So optimize for same process reads and write
by switching using rask_lock instead.

This yields a simpler to understand lock, and a faster setns system call.

In particular this fixes a performance regression observed
by Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@canonical.com>.

This is effectively a revert of Pavel Emelyanov's commit
cf7b708c8d Make access to task's nsproxy lighter
from 2007.  The race this originialy fixed no longer exists as
do_notify_parent uses task_active_pid_ns(parent) instead of
parent->nsproxy.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-07-29 18:08:50 -07:00
Al Viro
c7999c3627 reduce m_start() cost...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-04-01 23:19:09 -04:00
Axel Lin
3d93116cef fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns
Trivial cleanup to eliminate a goto.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
Al Viro
aab407fc5c don't bother with vfsmount_lock in mounts_poll()
wake_up_interruptible/poll_wait provide sufficient barriers;
just use ACCESS_ONCE() to fetch ns->event and that's it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-10-24 23:34:59 -04:00
Al Viro
6ce6e24e72 get rid of magic in proc_namespace.c
don't rely on proc_mounts->m being the first field; container_of()
is there for purpose.  No need to bother with ->private, while
we are at it - the same container_of will do nicely.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:32:48 +04:00
Andi Kleen
962830df36 brlocks/lglocks: API cleanups
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h.  But there's no reason to not just use common utility
functions and put all the data into a common data structure.

In preparation, this patch changes the API to look more like normal
function calls with pointers, not magic macros.

The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
it bisectable.  This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
But no actual behaviour change.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-29 23:28:41 -04:00
Al Viro
34c80b1d93 vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
Al Viro
a6322de67b vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:55 -05:00
Al Viro
d861c630e9 vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:54 -05:00
Al Viro
64132379d5 vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-06 23:16:54 -05:00
Al Viro
0226f4923f vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
rationale: that stuff is far tighter bound to fs/namespace.c than to
the guts of procfs proper.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:57:13 -05:00