Introduce helper functions for modifying fields in the superblock
into xfs_trans.c, the only caller of xfs_mod_incore_sb_batch(). We
can then use these directly in xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb() and
so remove another user of the xfs_mode_incore_sb() API without
losing any functionality or scalability of the transaction commit
code..
Based on a patch from Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Add a new helper to modify the incore counter of free realtime
extents. This matches the helpers used for inode and data block
counters, and removes a significant users of the xfs_mod_incore_sb()
interface.
Based on a patch originally from Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS has hand-rolled per-cpu counters for the superblock since before
there was any generic implementation. The free block counter is
special in that it is used for ENOSPC detection outside transaction
contexts for for delayed allocation. This means that the counter
needs to be accurate at zero. The current per-cpu counter code jumps
through lots of hoops to ensure we never run past zero, but we don't
need to make all those jumps with the generic counter
implementation.
The generic counter implementation allows us to pass a "batch"
threshold at which the addition/subtraction to the counter value
will be folded back into global value under lock. We can use this
feature to reduce the batch size as we approach 0 in a very similar
manner to the existing counters and their rebalance algorithm. If we
use a batch size of 1 as we approach 0, then every addition and
subtraction will be done against the global value and hence allow
accurate detection of zero threshold crossing.
Hence we can replace the handrolled, accurate-at-zero counters with
generic percpu counters.
Note: this removes just enough of the icsb infrastructure to compile
without warnings. The rest will go in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS has hand-rolled per-cpu counters for the superblock since before
there was any generic implementation. The free inode counter is not
used for any limit enforcement - the per-AG free inode counters are
used during allocation to determine if there are inode available for
allocation.
Hence we don't need any of the complexity of the hand-rolled
counters and we can simply replace them with generic per-cpu
counters similar to the inode counter.
This version introduces a xfs_mod_ifree() helper function from
Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS has hand-rolled per-cpu counters for the superblock since before
there was any generic implementation. There are some warts around
the use of them for the inode counter as the hand rolled counter is
designed to be accurate at zero, but has no specific accurracy at
any other value. This design causes problems for the maximum inode
count threshold enforcement, as there is no trigger that balances
the counters as they get close tothe maximum threshold.
Instead of designing new triggers for balancing, just replace the
handrolled per-cpu counter with a generic counter. This enables us
to update the counter through the normal superblock modification
funtions, but rather than do that we add a xfs_mod_icount() helper
function (from Christoph Hellwig) and keep the percpu counter
outside the superblock in the struct xfs_mount.
This means we still need to initialise the per-cpu counter
specifically when we read the superblock, and vice versa when we
log/write it, but it does mean that we don't need to change any
other code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When the superblock is modified in a transaction, the commonly
modified fields are not actually copied to the superblock buffer to
avoid the buffer lock becoming a serialisation point. However, there
are some other operations that modify the superblock fields within
the transaction that don't directly log to the superblock but rely
on the changes to be applied during the transaction commit (to
minimise the buffer lock hold time).
When we do this, we fail to mark the buffer log item as being a
superblock buffer and that can lead to the buffer not being marked
with the corect type in the log and hence causing recovery issues.
Fix it by setting the type correctly, similar to xfs_mod_sb()...
cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10 to current
Tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
More on-disk format consolidation. A few declarations that weren't on-disk
format related move into better suitable spots.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Convert all the errors the core XFs code to negative error signs
like the rest of the kernel and remove all the sign conversion we
do in the interface layers.
Errors for conversion (and comparison) found via searches like:
$ git grep " E" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return E" fs/xfs
$ git grep " E[A-Z].*;$" fs/xfs
Negation points found via searches like:
$ git grep "= -[a-z,A-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return -[a-z,A-D,F-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep " -[a-z].*;" fs/xfs
[ with some bits I missed from Brian Foster ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
XFS_ERROR was designed long ago to trap return values, but it's not
runtime configurable, it's not consistently used, and we can do
similar error trapping with ftrace scripts and triggers from
userspace.
Just nuke XFS_ERROR and associated bits.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
return is not a function. "return(EIO);" is silly;
"return (EIO);" moreso. return is not a function.
Nuke the pointless parens.
[dchinner: catch a couple of extra cases in xfs_attr_list.c,
xfs_acl.c and xfs_linux.h.]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Convert xfs_log_commit_cil() to a void function since it return nothing
but 0 in any case, after that we can simplify the relative code logic
in xfs_trans_commit() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Currently the xfs_inode.h header has a dependency on the definition
of the BMAP btree records as the inode fork includes an array of
xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t objects in it's definition.
Move all the btree format definitions from xfs_btree.h,
xfs_bmap_btree.h, xfs_alloc_btree.h and xfs_ialloc_btree.h to
xfs_format.h to continue the process of centralising the on-disk
format definitions. With this done, the xfs inode definitions are no
longer dependent on btree header files.
The enables a massive culling of unnecessary includes, with close to
200 #include directives removed from the XFS kernel code base.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
xfs_trans.h has a dependency on xfs_log.h for a couple of
structures. Most code that does transactions doesn't need to know
anything about the log, but this dependency means that they have to
include xfs_log.h. Decouple the xfs_trans.h and xfs_log.h header
files and clean up the includes to be in dependency order.
In doing this, remove the direct include of xfs_trans_reserve.h from
xfs_trans.h so that we remove the dependency between xfs_trans.h and
xfs_mount.h. Hence the xfs_trans.h include can be moved to the
indicate the actual dependencies other header files have on it.
Note that these are kernel only header files, so this does not
translate to any userspace changes at all.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The on-disk format definitions for the directory and attribute
structures are spread across 3 header files right now, only one of
which is dedicated to defining on-disk structures and their
manipulation (xfs_dir2_format.h). Pull all the format definitions
into a single header file - xfs_da_format.h - and switch all the
code over to point at that.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
All of the buffer operations structures are needed to be exported
for xfs_db, so move them all to a common location rather than
spreading them all over the place. They are verifying the on-disk
format, so while xfs_format.h might be a good place, it is not part
of the on disk format.
Hence we need to create a new header file that we centralise these
related definitions. Start by moving the bffer operations
structures, and then also move all the other definitions that have
crept into xfs_log_format.h and xfs_format.h as there was no other
shared header file to put them in.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
In optimising the CIL operations, some of the IOP_* macros for
calling log item operations were removed. Remove the rest of them as
Christoph requested.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Geoffrey Wehrman <gwehrman@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
With the new xfs_trans_res structure has been introduced, the log
reservation size, log count as well as log flags are pre-initialized
at mount time. So it's time to refine xfs_trans_reserve() interface
to be more neat.
Also, introduce a new helper M_RES() to return a pointer to the
mp->m_resv structure to simplify the input.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Introduce a new structure xfs_trans_res to hold transaction
reservation item info per log ticket.
We also need to improve xfs_trans_resv_calc() by initializing the
log count as well as log flags for permanent log reservation.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The transaction reservation size calculations is used by both kernel
and userspace, but most of the transaction code in xfs_trans.c is
kernel specific. Split all the transaction reservation code out into
it's own files to make sharing with userspace simpler. This just
leaves kernel-only definitions in xfs_trans.h, so it doesn't need to
be shared with userspace anymore, either.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
There's a bunch of definitions in xfs_trans.h that define on-disk
formats - transaction headers that get written into the log, log
item type definitions, etc. Split out everything into a separate
file so that all which remains in xfs_trans.h are kernel only
definitions.
Also, remove the duplicate magic number definitions for
XFS_TRANS_MAGIC...
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The on disk format definitions of the on-disk dquot, log formats and
quota off log formats are all intertwined with other definitions for
quotas. Separate them out into their own header file so they can
easily be shared with userspace.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Define the log and space transaction sizes. Factor the current
create log reservation macro into the two logical halves and reuse
one half for the new icreate transactions. The icreate transaction
is transparent to all the high level create code - the
pre-calculated reservations will correctly set the reservations
dependent on whether the filesystem supports the icreate
transaction.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Currently, we calculate the attribute set transaction
log space reservation at runtime in two parts:
1) XFS_ATTRSET_LOG_RES() which is calcuated out at mount time.
2) ((ext * (mp)->m_sb.sb_sectsize) + \
(ext * XFS_FSB_TO_B((mp), XFS_BM_MAXLEVELS(mp, XFS_ATTR_FORK))) + \
(128 * (ext + (ext * XFS_BM_MAXLEVELS(mp, XFS_ATTR_FORK))))))
which is calculated out at runtime since it depend on the given extent length in blocks.
This patch renamed XFS_ATTRSET_LOG_RES(mp) to XFS_ATTRSETM_LOG_RES(mp) to indicate
that it is figured out at mount time. Introduce XFS_ATTRSETRT_LOG_RES(mp) which would
be used to calculate out the unit of the log space reservation for one block.
In this way, the total runtime space for the given extent length can be figured out by:
XFS_ATTRSETM_LOG_RES(mp) + XFS_ATTRSETRT_LOG_RES(mp) * ext
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Introduce a new transaction space reservation XFS_SB_LOG_RES() for
those transactions that need to modify the superblock on disk.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Convert the calculation for end of quotaoff log space reservation
from runtime to mount time.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Convert the calculation of quota off transaction log space reservation
from runtime to mount time.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The disk quota allocation log space reservation is calcuated at runtime,
this patch does it at mount time.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
For adjusting quota limits transactions, we calculate out the log space
reservation at runtime, this patch does it at mount time.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The transaction log space for clearing/reseting the quota flags
is calculated out at runtime, this patch can figure it out at
mount time.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Refining the existing reservations with xfs_calc_buf_res() in xfs_trans.c
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Add a new helper xfs_calc_buf_res() to calcuate out the transaction space
reservations per item. xfs_buf_log_overhead() is used to figure out the
extra space for struct xfs_buf_log_format that gets written into the log
for every buffer as well as a log opheader, i.e. struct xlog_op_header.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
CC: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Generic code now blocks all writers from standard write paths. So we add
blocking of all writers coming from ioctl (we get a protection of ioctl against
racing remount read-only as a bonus) and convert xfs_file_aio_write() to a
non-racy freeze protection. We also keep freeze protection on transaction
start to block internal filesystem writes such as removal of preallocated
blocks.
CC: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
CC: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With the removal of xfs_rw.h and other changes over time, xfs_bit.h
is being included in many files that don't actually need it. Clean
up the includes as necessary.
Also move the only-used-once xfs_ialloc_find_free() static inline
function out of a header file that is widely included to reduce
the number of needless dependencies on xfs_bit.h.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Now that the busy extent tracking has been moved out of the
allocation files, clean up the namespace it uses to
"xfs_extent_busy" rather than a mix of "xfs_busy" and
"xfs_alloc_busy".
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To make it easier to handle userspace code merges, move all the busy
extent handling out of the allocation code and into it's own file.
The userspace code does not need the busy extent code, so this
simplifies the merging of the kernel code into the userspace
xfsprogs library.
Because the busy extent code has been almost completely rewritten
over the past couple of years, also update the copyright on this new
file to include the authors that made all those changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Untangle the header file includes a bit by moving the definition of
xfs_agino_t to xfs_types.h. This removes the dependency that xfs_ag.h has on
xfs_inum.h, meaning we don't need to include xfs_inum.h everywhere we include
xfs_ag.h.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Split the log regrant case out of xfs_log_reserve into a separate function,
and merge xlog_grant_log_space and xlog_regrant_write_log_space into their
respective callers. Also replace the XFS_LOG_PERM_RESERV flag, which easily
got misused before the previous cleanups with a simple boolean parameter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
It looks to me like the two ASSERT()s in xfs_trans_add_item() really
want to do a compare (==) rather than assignment (=).
This patch changes it from the latter to the former.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
(cherry picked from commit 05293485a0)
Outside the now removed nodelaylog code this field is only used for
asserts and can be safely removed now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Now that the nodelaylog mode is gone we can simplify the transaction commit
path a bit by removing the xfs_trans_commit_cil routine. Restoring the
process flags is merged into xfs_trans_commit which already does it for
the error path, and allocating the log vectors is merged into
xlog_cil_format_items, which already fills them with data, thus avoiding
one loop over all log items.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
The delaylog mode has been the default for a long time, and the nodelaylog
option has been scheduled for removal in Linux 3.3. Remove it and code
only used by it now that we have opened the 3.3 window.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
There is no reason to keep a reference to the inode even if we unlock
it during transaction commit because we never drop a reference between
the ijoin and commit. Also use this fact to merge xfs_trans_ijoin_ref
back into xfs_trans_ijoin - the third argument decides if an unlock
is needed now.
I'm actually starting to wonder if allowing inodes to be unlocked
at transaction commit really is worth the effort. The only real
benefit is that they can be unlocked earlier when commiting a
synchronous transactions, but that could be solved by doing the
log force manually after the unlock, too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Only read the LSN we need to push to with the ilock held, and then release
it before we do the log force to improve concurrency.
This also removes the only direct caller of _xfs_trans_commit, thus
allowing it to be merged into the plain xfs_trans_commit again.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Delayed logging can insert tens of thousands of log items into the
AIL at the same LSN. When the committing of log commit records
occur, we can get insertions occurring at an LSN that is not at the
end of the AIL. If there are thousands of items in the AIL on the
tail LSN, each insertion has to walk the AIL to find the correct
place to insert the new item into the AIL. This can consume large
amounts of CPU time and block other operations from occurring while
the traversals are in progress.
To avoid this repeated walk, use a AIL cursor to record
where we should be inserting the new items into the AIL without
having to repeat the walk. The cursor infrastructure already
provides this functionality for push walks, so is a simple extension
of existing code. While this will not avoid the initial walk, it
will avoid repeating it tens of thousands of times during a single
checkpoint commit.
This version includes logic improvements from Christoph Hellwig.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This reverts commit 7a249cf83d.
That commit created a situation that could lead to a filesystem
hang. As Dave Chinner pointed out, xfs_trans_alloc() could hold a
reference to m_active_trans (i.e., keep it non-zero) and then wait
for SB_FREEZE_TRANS to complete. Meanwhile a filesystem freeze
request could set SB_FREEZE_TRANS and then wait for m_active_trans
to drop to zero. Nobody benefits from this sequence of events...
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
As pointed out by Jan xfs_trans_alloc can race with a concurrent filesystem
freeze when it sleeps during the memory allocation. Fix this by moving the
wait_for_freeze call after the memory allocation. This means moving the
freeze into the low-level _xfs_trans_alloc helper, which thus grows a new
argument. Also fix up some comments in that area while at it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
When inodes are marked stale in a transaction, they are treated
specially when the inode log item is being inserted into the AIL.
It tries to avoid moving the log item forward in the AIL due to a
race condition with the writing the underlying buffer back to disk.
The was "fixed" in commit de25c18 ("xfs: avoid moving stale inodes
in the AIL").
To avoid moving the item forward, we return a LSN smaller than the
commit_lsn of the completing transaction, thereby trying to trick
the commit code into not moving the inode forward at all. I'm not
sure this ever worked as intended - it assumes the inode is already
in the AIL, but I don't think the returned LSN would have been small
enough to prevent moving the inode. It appears that the reason it
worked is that the lower LSN of the inodes meant they were inserted
into the AIL and flushed before the inode buffer (which was moved to
the commit_lsn of the transaction).
The big problem is that with delayed logging, the returning of the
different LSN means insertion takes the slow, non-bulk path. Worse
yet is that insertion is to a position -before- the commit_lsn so it
is doing a AIL traversal on every insertion, and has to walk over
all the items that have already been inserted into the AIL. It's
expensive.
To compound the matter further, with delayed logging inodes are
likely to go from clean to stale in a single checkpoint, which means
they aren't even in the AIL at all when we come across them at AIL
insertion time. Hence these were all getting inserted into the AIL
when they simply do not need to be as inodes marked XFS_ISTALE are
never written back.
Transactional/recovery integrity is maintained in this case by the
other items in the unlink transaction that were modified (e.g. the
AGI btree blocks) and committed in the same checkpoint.
So to fix this, simply unpin the stale inodes directly in
xfs_inode_item_committed() and return -1 to indicate that the AIL
insertion code does not need to do any further processing of these
inodes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
