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2011-01-07fs: scale mntget/mntputNick Piggin
The problem that this patch aims to fix is vfsmount refcounting scalability. We need to take a reference on the vfsmount for every successful path lookup, which often go to the same mount point. The fundamental difficulty is that a "simple" reference count can never be made scalable, because any time a reference is dropped, we must check whether that was the last reference. To do that requires communication with all other CPUs that may have taken a reference count. We can make refcounts more scalable in a couple of ways, involving keeping distributed counters, and checking for the global-zero condition less frequently. - check the global sum once every interval (this will delay zero detection for some interval, so it's probably a showstopper for vfsmounts). - keep a local count and only taking the global sum when local reaches 0 (this is difficult for vfsmounts, because we can't hold preempt off for the life of a reference, so a counter would need to be per-thread or tied strongly to a particular CPU which requires more locking). - keep a local difference of increments and decrements, which allows us to sum the total difference and hence find the refcount when summing all CPUs. Then, keep a single integer "long" refcount for slow and long lasting references, and only take the global sum of local counters when the long refcount is 0. This last scheme is what I implemented here. Attached mounts and process root and working directory references are "long" references, and everything else is a short reference. This allows scalable vfsmount references during path walking over mounted subtrees and unattached (lazy umounted) mounts with processes still running in them. This results in one fewer atomic op in the fastpath: mntget is now just a per-CPU inc, rather than an atomic inc; and mntput just requires a spinlock and non-atomic decrement in the common case. However code is otherwise bigger and heavier, so single threaded performance is basically a wash. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash lockingNick Piggin
We can turn the dcache hash locking from a global dcache_hash_lock into per-bucket locking. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2010-10-29switch get_sb_ns() usersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29convert get_sb_nodev() usersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29convert get_sb_single() usersAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29new helper: mount_bdev()Al Viro
... and switch of the obvious get_sb_bdev() users to ->mount() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-29beginning of transtion: ->mount()Al Viro
eventual replacement for ->get_sb() - does *not* get vfsmount, return ERR_PTR(error) or root of subtree to be mounted. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25split invalidate_inodes()Al Viro
Pull removal of fsnotify marks into generic_shutdown_super(). Split umount-time work into a new function - evict_inodes(). Make sure that invalidate_inodes() will be able to cope with I_FREEING once we change locking in iput(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-18fs: scale files_lockNick Piggin
fs: scale files_lock Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists, protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists (although this is very slow). One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list. However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N cachelines than with 1. A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case. Testing results: On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it. Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%) kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%) dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%) So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time. It remains within the same node 95% of the time. Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile. throughput 2.6.34-rc2 24.5 +patch 24.9 us sys idle IO wait (in %) 2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25 +patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75 So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and slightly higher throughput. Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks. That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory accesses required so it will be slightly slower. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock listAl Viro
just delay __put_super() a bit Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-08-09Fix sget() race with failing mountAl Viro
If sget() finds a matching superblock being set up, it'll grab an active reference to it and grab s_umount. That's fine - we'll wait for completion of foofs_get_sb() that way. However, if said foofs_get_sb() fails we'll end up holding the halfway-created superblock. deactivate_locked_super() called by foofs_get_sb() will just unlock the sucker since we are holding another active reference to it. What we need is a way to tell if superblock has been successfully set up. Unfortunately, neither ->s_root nor the check for MS_ACTIVE quite fit. Cheap and easy way, suitable for backport: new flag set by the (only) caller of ->get_sb(). If that flag isn't present by the time sget() grabbed s_umount on preexisting superblock it has found, it's seeing a stillborn and should just bury it with deactivate_locked_super() (and repeat the search). Longer term we want to set that flag in ->get_sb() instances (and check for it to distinguish between "sget() found us a live sb" and "sget() has allocated an sb, we need to set it up" in there, instead of checking ->s_root as we do now). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-08-09vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() callTejun Heo
Fix an obscure AB-BA deadlock in get_sb_bdev(). When a superblock is mounted more than once get_sb_bdev() calls close_bdev_exclusive() to drop the extra bdev reference while holding s_umount. However, sb->s_umount nests inside bd_mutex during __invalidate_device() and close_bdev_exclusive() acquires bd_mutex during blkdev_put(); thus creating an AB-BA deadlock. This condition doesn't trigger frequently. For this condition to be visible to lockdep, the filesystem must occupy the whole device (as __invalidate_device() only grabs bd_mutex for the whole device), the FS must be mounted more than once and partition rescan should be issued while the FS is still mounted. Fix it by dropping s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ciprian Docan <docan@eden.rutgers.edu> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-29fs: fix superblock iteration racenpiggin@suse.de
list_for_each_entry_safe is not suitable to protect against concurrent modification of the list. 6754af6 introduced a race in sb walking. list_for_each_entry can use the trick of pinning the current entry in the list before we drop and retake the lock because it subsequently follows cur->next. However list_for_each_entry_safe saves n=cur->next for following before entering the loop body, so when the lock is dropped, n may be deleted. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-30Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: quota: Convert quota statistics to generic percpu_counter ext3 uses rb_node = NULL; to zero rb_root. quota: Fixup dquot_transfer reiserfs: Fix resuming of quotas on remount read-write pohmelfs: Remove dead quota code ufs: Remove dead quota code udf: Remove dead quota code quota: rename default quotactl methods to dquot_ quota: explicitly set ->dq_op and ->s_qcop quota: drop remount argument to ->quota_on and ->quota_off quota: move unmount handling into the filesystem quota: kill the vfs_dq_off and vfs_dq_quota_on_remount wrappers quota: move remount handling into the filesystem ocfs2: Fix use after free on remount read-only Fix up conflicts in fs/ext4/super.c and fs/ufs/file.c
2010-05-27fs/super: fix kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap
Fix fs/super.c kernel-doc warning and function notation: Warning(fs/super.c:957): No description found for parameter 'sb' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-24quota: explicitly set ->dq_op and ->s_qcopChristoph Hellwig
Only set the quota operation vectors if the filesystem actually supports quota instead of doing it for all filesystems in alloc_super(). [Jan Kara: Export dquot_operations and vfs_quotactl_ops] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-24quota: move unmount handling into the filesystemChristoph Hellwig
Currently the VFS calls into the quotactl interface for unmounting filesystems. This means filesystems with their own quota handling can't easily distinguish between user-space originating quotaoff and an unount. Instead move the responsibily of the unmount handling into the filesystem to be consistent with all other dquot handling. Note that we do call dquot_disable a lot later now, e.g. after a sync_filesystem. But this is fine as the quota code does all its writes via blockdev's mapping and that is synced even later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-24quota: move remount handling into the filesystemChristoph Hellwig
Currently do_remount_sb calls into the dquot code to tell it about going from rw to ro and ro to rw. Move this code into the filesystem to not depend on the dquot code in the VFS - note ocfs2 already ignores these calls and handles remount by itself. This gets rid of overloading the quotactl calls and allows to unify the VFS and XFS codepaths in that area later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-05-21vfs: add lockdep annotation to s_vfs_rename_key for ecryptfsRoland Dreier
> ============================================= > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > 2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3 > --------------------------------------------- > firefox-3.5/4162 is trying to acquire lock: > (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > > other info that might help us debug this: > 3 locks held by firefox-3.5/4162: > #0: (&s->s_vfs_rename_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > #1: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d5a>] lock_rename+0x6a/0xf0 > #2: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#11/2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81139d6f>] lock_rename+0x7f/0xf0 > > stack backtrace: > Pid: 4162, comm: firefox-3.5 Tainted: G C 2.6.31-2-generic #14~rbd3 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8108ae74>] print_deadlock_bug+0xf4/0x100 > [<ffffffff8108ce26>] validate_chain+0x4c6/0x750 > [<ffffffff8108d2e7>] __lock_acquire+0x237/0x430 > [<ffffffff8108d585>] lock_acquire+0xa5/0x150 > [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > [<ffffffff815526ad>] __mutex_lock_common+0x4d/0x3d0 > [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > [<ffffffff81139d31>] ? lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > [<ffffffff8120eaf9>] ? ecryptfs_rename+0x99/0x170 > [<ffffffff81552b36>] mutex_lock_nested+0x46/0x60 > [<ffffffff81139d31>] lock_rename+0x41/0xf0 > [<ffffffff8120eb2a>] ecryptfs_rename+0xca/0x170 > [<ffffffff81139a9e>] vfs_rename_dir+0x13e/0x160 > [<ffffffff8113ac7e>] vfs_rename+0xee/0x290 > [<ffffffff8113c212>] ? __lookup_hash+0x102/0x160 > [<ffffffff8113d512>] sys_renameat+0x252/0x280 > [<ffffffff81133eb4>] ? cp_new_stat+0xe4/0x100 > [<ffffffff8101316a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69 > [<ffffffff8108c34d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x14d/0x190 > [<ffffffff8113d55b>] sys_rename+0x1b/0x20 > [<ffffffff81013132>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The trace above is totally reproducible by doing a cross-directory rename on an ecryptfs directory. The issue seems to be that sys_renameat() does lock_rename() then calls into the filesystem; if the filesystem is ecryptfs, then ecryptfs_rename() again does lock_rename() on the lower filesystem, and lockdep can't tell that the two s_vfs_rename_mutexes are different. It seems an annotation like the following is sufficient to fix this (it does get rid of the lockdep trace in my simple tests); however I would like to make sure I'm not misunderstanding the locking, hence the CC list... Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Introduce freeze_super and thaw_super for the fsfreeze ioctlJosef Bacik
Currently the way we do freezing is by passing sb>s_bdev to freeze_bdev and then letting it do all the work. But freezing is more of an fs thing, and doesn't really have much to do with the bdev at all, all the work gets done with the super. In btrfs we do not populate s_bdev, since we can have multiple bdev's for one fs and setting s_bdev makes removing devices from a pool kind of tricky. This means that freezing a btrfs filesystem fails, which causes us to corrupt with things like tux-on-ice which use the fsfreeze mechanism. So instead of populating sb->s_bdev with a random bdev in our pool, I've broken the actual fs freezing stuff into freeze_super and thaw_super. These just take the super_block that we're freezing and does the appropriate work. It's basically just copy and pasted from freeze_bdev. I've then converted freeze_bdev over to use the new super helpers. I've tested this with ext4 and btrfs and verified everything continues to work the same as before. The only new gotcha is multiple calls to the fsfreeze ioctl will return EBUSY if the fs is already frozen. I thought this was a better solution than adding a freeze counter to the super_block, but if everybody hates this idea I'm open to suggestions. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Trim includes in fs/super.cAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Move grabbing s_umount to callers of grab_super()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Take statfs variants to fs/statfs.cAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21new helper: iterate_supers()Al Viro
... and switch the simple "loop over superblocks and do something" loops to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Bury __put_super_and_need_restart()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21In get_super() and user_get_super() restarts are unconditionalAl Viro
If superblock had been still alive, we would've returned it... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21fix get_active_super()/umount() raceAl Viro
This one needs restarts... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21fix do_emergency_remount()/umount() racesAl Viro
need list_for_each_entry_safe() here. Original didn't even have restart logics, so if you race with umount() it blew up. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Convert simple loops over superblocks to list_for_each_entry_safeAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21get rid of restarts in sync_filesystems()Al Viro
At the same time we can kill s_need_restart and local mutex in there. __put_super() made public for a while; will be gone later. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Leave superblocks on s_list until the endAl Viro
We used to remove from s_list and s_instances at the same time. So let's *not* do the former and skip superblocks that have empty s_instances in the loops over s_list. The next step, of course, will be to get rid of rescan logics in those loops. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21Saner locking around deactivate_super()Al Viro
Make sure that s_umount is acquired *before* we drop the final active reference; we still have the fast path (atomic_dec_unless) and we have gotten rid of the window between the moment when s_active hits zero and s_umount is acquired. Which simplifies the living hell out of grab_super() and inotify pin_to_kill() stuff. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21get rid of S_BIASAl Viro
use atomic_inc_not_zero(&sb->s_active) instead of playing games with checking ->s_count > S_BIAS Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21get rid of open-coded grab_super() in get_active_super()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21remove incorrect comment in do_emergency_remountChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-04-29fs: fs/super.c needs to include backing-dev.h for !CONFIG_BLOCKJens Axboe
When CONFIG_BLOCK is set, it ends up getting backing-dev.h included. But for !CONFIG_BLOCK, it isn't so lucky. The proper thing to do is include <linux/backing-dev.h> directly from the file it's used from, so do that. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-04-25Catch filesystems lacking s_bdiJörn Engel
noop_backing_dev_info is used only as a flag to mark filesystems that don't have any backing store, like tmpfs, procfs, spufs, etc. Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Changed the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON(). Note that adding dirty inodes to the noop_backing_dev_info is not legal and will not result in them being flushed, but we already catch this condition in __mark_inode_dirty() when checking for a registered bdi. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-03-03Mirror MS_KERNMOUNT in ->mnt_flagsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-03-03fs: improve remount,ro vs buffercache coherencyNick Piggin
Invalidate sb->s_bdev on remount,ro. Fixes a problem reported by Jorge Boncompte who is seeing corruption trying to snapshot a minix filesystem image. Some filesystems modify their metadata via a path other than the bdev buffer cache (eg. they may use a private linear mapping for their metadata, or implement directories in pagecache, etc). Also, file data modifications usually go to the bdev via their own mappings. These updates are not coherent with buffercache IO (eg. via /dev/bdev) and never have been. However there could be a reasonable expectation that after a mount -oremount,ro operation then the buffercache should subsequently be coherent with previous filesystem modifications. So invalidate the bdev mappings on a remount,ro operation to provide a coherency point. The problem was exposed when we switched the old rd to brd because old rd didn't really function like a normal block device and updates to rd via mappings other than the buffercache would still end up going into its buffercache. But the same problem has always affected other "normal" block devices, including loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair comment layout] Reported-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net> Tested-by: "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-23vfs: get_sb_single() - do not pass options twiceKay Sievers
Filesystem code usually destroys the option buffer while parsing it. This leads to errors when the same buffer is passed twice. In case we fill a new superblock do not call remount. This is needed to quite a warning that the debugfs code causes every boot. Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-24freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocksChristoph Hellwig
Currently we held s_umount while a filesystem is frozen, despite that we might return to userspace and unlock it from a different process. Instead grab an active reference to keep the file system busy and add an explicit check for frozen filesystems in remount and reject the remount instead of blocking on s_umount. Add a new get_active_super helper to super.c for use by freeze_bdev that grabs an active reference to a superblock from a given block device. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_semChristoph Hellwig
Now that we have the freeze count there is not much reason for bd_mount_sem anymore. The actual freeze/thaw operations are serialized using the bd_fsfreeze_mutex, and the only other place we take bd_mount_sem is get_sb_bdev which tries to prevent mounting a filesystem while the block device is frozen. Instead of add a check for bd_fsfreeze_count and return -EBUSY if a filesystem is frozen. While that is a change in user visible behaviour a failing mount is much better for this case rather than having the mount process stuck uninterruptible for a long time. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_tJeff Layton
sb->s_maxbytes is supposed to indicate the maximum size of a file that can exist on the filesystem. It's declared as an unsigned long long. Even if a filesystem has no inherent limit that prevents it from using every bit in that unsigned long long, it's still problematic to set it to anything larger than MAX_LFS_FILESIZE. There are places in the kernel that cast s_maxbytes to a signed value. If it's set too large then this cast makes it a negative number and generally breaks the comparison. Change s_maxbytes to be loff_t instead. That should help eliminate the temptation to set it too large by making it a signed value. Also, add a warning for couple of releases to help catch filesystems that set s_maxbytes too large. Eventually we can either convert this to a BUG() or just remove it and in the hope that no one will get it wrong now that it's a signed value. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-22const: mark remaining super_operations constAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-16fs: Assign bdi in super_blockJens Axboe
We do this automatically in get_sb_bdev() from the set_bdev_super() callback. Filesystems that have their own private backing_dev_info must assign that in ->fill_super(). Note that ->s_bdi assignment is required for proper writeback! Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing dataJens Axboe
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning. pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in vmstat: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 1 0 608848 2652 375372 0 0 0 71024 604 24 1 10 48 42 0 1 0 549644 2712 433736 0 0 0 60692 505 27 1 8 48 44 1 0 0 476928 2784 505192 0 0 4 29540 553 24 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 457972 2808 524008 0 0 0 54876 331 16 0 4 38 58 0 1 0 366128 2928 614284 0 0 4 92168 710 58 0 13 53 34 0 1 0 295092 3000 684140 0 0 0 62924 572 23 0 9 53 37 0 1 0 236592 3064 741704 0 0 4 58256 523 17 0 8 48 44 0 1 0 165608 3132 811464 0 0 0 57460 560 21 0 8 54 38 0 1 0 102952 3200 873164 0 0 4 74748 540 29 1 10 48 41 0 1 0 48604 3252 926472 0 0 0 53248 469 29 0 7 47 45 where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase: r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 1 0 678716 5792 303380 0 0 0 74064 565 50 1 11 52 36 1 0 0 662488 5864 319396 0 0 4 352 302 329 0 2 47 51 0 1 0 599312 5924 381468 0 0 0 78164 516 55 0 9 51 40 0 1 0 519952 6008 459516 0 0 4 78156 622 56 1 11 52 37 1 1 0 436640 6092 541632 0 0 0 82244 622 54 0 11 48 41 0 1 0 436640 6092 541660 0 0 0 8 152 39 0 0 51 49 0 1 0 332224 6200 644252 0 0 4 102800 728 46 1 13 49 36 1 0 0 274492 6260 701056 0 0 4 12328 459 49 0 7 50 43 0 1 0 211220 6324 763356 0 0 0 106940 515 37 1 10 51 39 1 0 0 160412 6376 813468 0 0 0 8224 415 43 0 6 49 45 1 1 0 85980 6452 886556 0 0 4 113516 575 39 1 11 54 34 0 2 0 85968 6452 886620 0 0 0 1640 158 211 0 0 46 54 A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed writes. A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term, adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe
This is a first step at introducing per-bdi flusher threads. We should have no change in behaviour, although sb_has_dirty_inodes() is now ridiculously expensive, as there's no easy way to answer that question. Not a huge problem, since it'll be deleted in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-24... and the same for vfsmount id/mount group idAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24Make allocation of anon devices cheaperAl Viro
Standard trick - add a new variable (start) such that for each n < start n is known to be busy. Allocation can skip checking everything in [0..start) and if it returns n, we can set start to n + 1. Freeing below start sets start to what we'd just freed. Of course, it still sucks if we do something like free 0 allocate allocate in a loop - still O(n^2) time. However, on saner loads it improves the things a lot and the entire thing is not worth the trouble of switching to something with better worst-case behaviour. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-17remove unlock_kernel() left accidentallyJ. R. Okajima
commit 337eb00a2c3a421999c39c94ce7e33545ee8baa7 Push BKL down into ->remount_fs() and commit 4aa98cf768b6f2ea4b204620d949a665959214f6 Push BKL down into do_remount_sb() were uncorrectly merged. The former removes one pair of lock/unlock_kernel(), but the latter adds several unlock_kernel(). Finally a few unlock_kernel() calls left. Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>