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Bryan Schumaker a8d8f02cf0 NFS: Create custom NFS v4 write_inode() function
This gives pnfs a chance to do a layout commit inside the v4 code.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-06-29 11:46:47 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker 57208fa7e5 NFS: Create an write_pageio_init() function
pNFS needs to select a write function based on the layout driver
currently in use, so I let each NFS version decide how to best handle
initializing writes.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-06-29 11:46:46 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker 011e2a7fd5 NFS: Create a have_delegation rpc_op
Delegations are a v4 feature, so push them out of the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-06-29 11:46:44 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 2f2c63bc22 NFS: Cleanup - only store the write verifier in struct nfs_page
The 'committed' field is not needed once we have put the struct nfs_page
on the right list.

Also correct the type of the verifier: it is not an array of __be32, but
simply an 8 byte long opaque array.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-06-28 17:20:50 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9bce008bae NFS: Fix a commit bug
The new commit code fails to copy the verifier into the wb_verf field
of _all_ the nfs_page structures; it only copies it into the first entry.
The consequence is that most requests end up failing to match in
nfs_commit_release.

Fix is to copy the verifier into the req->wb_verf field in
nfs_write_completion.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-06-05 18:38:47 -04:00
Andy Adamson 9f0ec176b3 NFSv4.1 set RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN for filelayout DS RPC calls
RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN returns connection errors to the caller which allows the pNFS
file layout to quickly try the MDS or perhaps another DS.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-05-19 17:54:19 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 1d1afcbc29 NFS: Clean up - Rename nfs_unlock_request and nfs_unlock_request_dont_release
Function rename to ensure that the functionality of nfs_unlock_request()
mirrors that of nfs_lock_request(). Then let nfs_unlock_and_release_request()
do the work of what used to be called nfs_unlock_request()...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-05-09 15:17:43 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 7ad84aa944 NFS: Clean up - simplify nfs_lock_request()
We only have two places where we need to grab a reference when trying
to lock the nfs_page. We're better off making that explicit.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-05-09 15:17:34 -04:00
Trond Myklebust d1182b33ed NFS: nfs_set_page_writeback no longer needs to reference the page
We now hold a reference to the nfs_page across the calls to
nfs_set_page_writeback and nfs_end_page_writeback, and that
means we already have a reference to the struct page.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-05-09 15:17:28 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 3aff4ebb95 NFS: Prevent a deadlock in the new writeback code
We have to unlock the nfs_page before we call nfs_end_page_writeback
to avoid races with functions that expect the page to be unlocked
when PG_locked and PG_writeback are not set.
The problem is that nfs_unlock_request also releases the nfs_page,
causing a deadlock if the release of the nfs_open_context
triggers an iput() while the PG_writeback flag is still set...

The solution is to separate the unlocking and release of the nfs_page,
so that we can do the former before nfs_end_page_writeback and the
latter after.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-05-09 15:16:07 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 8d197a568f NFS: Always trust the PageUptodate flag when we have a delegation
We can always use the optimal full page write if we know that we
hold a delegation.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-05-01 15:42:41 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 25b11dcdbf NFS: Clean up nfs read and write error paths
Move the error handling for nfs_generic_pagein() into a single function.
Ditto for nfs_generic_flush().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-05-01 13:48:13 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker 68cd6fa4f3 NFS: Define dummy nfs_init_cinfo() and nfs_init_cinfo_from_inode()
These are needed when v3 and v4 are not enabled.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-30 14:32:36 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 9b5415b536 NFS: Fix a use-before-initialised warning in fs/nfs/write.c and fs/nfs/pnfs.c
If the allocation of nfs_write_header fails, the list of nfs_pages that
needs to be cleaned up is still on desc->pg_list...

Reported-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 15:03:51 -04:00
Fred Isaman 1763da1234 NFS: rewrite directio write to use async coalesce code
This also has the advantage that it allows directio to use pnfs.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:39 -04:00
Fred Isaman 56f9cd684d NFS: avoid some stat gathering for direct io
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:39 -04:00
Fred Isaman b359f9d09b NFS: add dreq to nfs_commit_info
Need this to pass into nfs_commitdata_init, in order to keep data->dreq
accurate.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman f453a54a01 NFS: create nfs_commit_completion_ops
Factors out the code that needs to change when directio
starts using these code paths.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman ea2cf2282b NFS: create struct nfs_commit_info
It is COMMIT that is handled the most differently between
the paged and direct paths.  Create a structure that encapsulates
everything either path needs to know about the commit state.

We could use void to hide some of the layout driver stuff, but
Trond suggests pulling it out to ensure type checking, given the
huge changes being made, and the fact that it doesn't interfere
with other drivers.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman 84c53ab5c0 NFS: create nfs_generic_commit_list
Simple refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman 9533da2979 NFS: remove unused wb_complete field from struct nfs_page
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman 061ae2edb7 NFS: create completion structure to pass into page_init functions
Factors out the code that will need to change when directio
starts using these code paths.  This will allow directio to use
the generic pagein and flush routines

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:38 -04:00
Fred Isaman 6c75dc0d49 NFS: merge _full and _partial write rpc_ops
Decouple nfs_pgio_header and nfs_write_data, and have (possibly
multiple) nfs_write_datas each take a refcount on nfs_pgio_header.

For the moment keeps nfs_write_header as a way to preallocate a single
nfs_write_data with the nfs_pgio_header.  The code doesn't need this,
and would be prettier without, but given the amount of churn I am
already introducing I didn't want to play with tuning new mempools.

This also fixes bug in pnfs_ld_handle_write_error.  In the case of
desc->pg_bsize < PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, the pages list was empty, causing
replay attempt to do nothing.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:37 -04:00
Fred Isaman 30dd374f6f NFS: create struct nfs_page_array
Both nfs_read_data and nfs_write_data devote several fields which
can be combined into a single shared struct.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:37 -04:00
Fred Isaman cd841605f7 NFS: create common nfs_pgio_header for both read and write
In order to avoid duplicating all the data in nfs_read_data whenever we
split it up into multiple RPC calls (either due to a short read result
or due to rsize < PAGE_SIZE), we split out the bits that are the same
per RPC call into a separate "header" structure.

The goal this patch moves towards is to have a single header
refcounted by several rpc_data structures.  Thus, want to always refer
from rpc_data to the header, and not the other way.  This patch comes
close to that ideal, but the directio code currently needs some
special casing, isolated in the nfs_direct_[read_write]hdr_release()
functions.  This will be dealt with in a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:37 -04:00
Fred Isaman c5996c4efb NFS: reverse arg order in nfs_initiate_[read|write]
Make it consistent with nfs_initiate_commit.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:37 -04:00
Fred Isaman 0b7c01533a NFS: add a struct nfs_commit_data to replace nfs_write_data in commits
Commits don't need the vectors of pages, etc. that writes do. Split out
a separate structure for the commit operation.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-27 14:10:37 -04:00
Fred Isaman 8ccd271f7a NFS: put open context on error in nfs_flush_multi
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-20 14:57:30 -04:00
Fred Isaman ca138f368a NFS: check for req==NULL in nfs_try_to_update_request cleanup
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-04-18 11:05:49 -04:00
Bryan Schumaker c6cb80d00b NFS: Remove nfs4_setup_sequence from generic write code
This is an NFS v4 specific operation, so it belongs in the NFS v4 code
and not the generic client.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-21 09:31:45 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 3b3be88d67 NFS: Use cond_resched_lock() to reduce latencies in the commit scans
Ensure that we conditionally drop the inode->i_lock when it is safe
to do so in the commit loops.
We do so after locking the nfs_page, but before removing it from the
commit list. We can then use list_safe_reset_next to recover the loop
after the lock is retaken.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-20 13:08:26 -04:00
Fred Isaman c4f1b62a4b NFS: ncommit count is being double decremented
The decrement is handled by each call to nfs_request_remove_commit_list,
no need to do it again in nfs_scan_commit.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-20 13:05:08 -04:00
Trond Myklebust 8dd3775889 NFSv4.1: Clean ups and bugfixes for the pNFS read/writeback/commit code
Move more pnfs-isms out of the generic commit code.

Bugfixes:

- filelayout_scan_commit_lists doesn't need to get/put the lseg.
  In fact since it is run under the inode->i_lock, the lseg_put()
  can deadlock.

- Ensure that we distinguish between what needs to be done for
  commit-to-data server and what needs to be done for commit-to-MDS
  using the new flag PG_COMMIT_TO_DS. Otherwise we may end up calling
  put_lseg() on a bucket for a struct nfs_page that got written
  through the MDS.

- Fix a case where we were using list_del() on an nfs_page->wb_list
  instead of list_del_init().

- filelayout_initiate_commit needs to call filelayout_commit_release
  on error instead of the mds_ops->rpc_release(). Otherwise it won't
  clear the commit lock.

Cleanups:

- Let the files layout manage the commit lists for the pNFS case.
  Don't expose stuff like pnfs_choose_commit_list, and the fact
  that the commit buckets hold references to the layout segment
  in common code.

- Cast out the put_lseg() calls for the struct nfs_read/write_data->lseg
  into the pNFS layer from whence they came.

- Let the pNFS layer manage the NFS_INO_PNFS_COMMIT bit.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
2012-03-17 11:09:33 -04:00
Fred Isaman d6d6dc7cdf NFS: remove nfs_inode radix tree
The radix tree is only being used to compile lists of reqs needing commit.
It is simpler to just put the reqs directly into a list.

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-10 17:14:10 -05:00
Fred Isaman 9994b62b56 NFS: remove NFS_PAGE_TAG_LOCKED
The last real use of this tag was removed by
commit 7f2f12d963 NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page()

Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-03-10 17:13:58 -05:00
Trond Myklebust 9d12b216aa NFSv41: Add a new helper nfs4_init_sequence()
Clean up

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-31 19:28:06 -05:00
Mel Gorman a6bc32b899 mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage.  Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.

This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.

[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
Mel Gorman b969c4ab9f mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking within ->migratepage
Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to
avoid blocking for long periods of time.  Due to reports of stalling,
there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely
impacted allocation success rates.  Part of the reason was that many dirty
pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check;

	if (PageDirty(page) && !sync &&
		mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page)
			rc = -EBUSY;

This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though
it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking.  This
patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter.  It is
the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would
block.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
Trond Myklebust e2fecb215b NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
We have no business doing any this in the standard write release path.
Get rid of it, and put it in the pNFS layer.

Also, while we're at it, get rid of the completely bogus unlock/relock
semantics that were present in nfs_writeback_release_full(). It is
not only unnecessary, but actually dangerous to release the write lock
just in order to take it again in nfs_page_async_flush(). Better just
to open code the pgio operations in a pnfs helper.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2012-01-06 08:57:46 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Rakib Mullick 2b72c9ccd2 nfs: Remove unused variable from write.c
When CONFIG_NFS=y and CONFIG_NFS_V3_{,V4}=n we get the following warning.

	fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_writeback_done’:
	fs/nfs/write.c:1246:21: warning: unused variable ‘server’

 Remove the variable 'server' to fix the above warning.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-11-02 23:50:24 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker afeacc8c1f fs: add export.h to files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE macros
These files were getting <linux/module.h> via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason.  Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:30:31 -04:00
Trond Myklebust fbb5a9abf0 NFS: Get rid of unnecessary calls to ClearPageError() in read code
The generic file read code does that for us anyway.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:37 -07:00
Trond Myklebust d00c5d4386 NFS: Get rid of nfs_restart_rpc()
It can trivially be replaced with rpc_restart_call_prepare.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-19 13:58:30 -07:00
Trond Myklebust a9a4a87a59 NFS: Use the inode->i_version to cache NFSv4 change attribute information
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:14:34 -07:00
Peng Tao 8ce160c5ef pnfs: recoalesce when ld write pagelist fails
For pnfs pagelist write failure, we need to pg_recoalesce and resend IO to
mds.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.0]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:13 -07:00
Jeff Layton 2da9565235 nfs: don't try to migrate pages with active requests
nfs_find_and_lock_request will take a reference to the nfs_page and
will then put it if the req is already locked. It's possible though
that the reference will be the last one. That put then can kick off
a whole series of reference puts:

nfs_page
   nfs_open_context
      dentry
          inode

If the inode ends up being deleted, then the VFS will call
truncate_inode_pages. That function will try to take the page lock, but
it was already locked when migrate_page was called. The code
deadlocks.

Fix this by simply refusing the migration request if PagePrivate is
already set, indicating that the page is already associated with an
active read or write request.

We've had a customer test a backported version of this patch and
the preliminary results seem good.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:11 -07:00
Jeff Layton 3236c3e1ad nfs: don't redirty inode when ncommit == 0 in nfs_commit_unstable_pages
commit 420e3646 allowed the kernel to reduce the number of unnecessary
commit calls by skipping the commit when there are a large number of
outstanding pages.

However, the current test in nfs_commit_unstable_pages does not handle
the edge condition properly. When ncommit == 0, then that means that the
kernel doesn't need to do anything more for the inode. The current test
though in the WB_SYNC_NONE case will return true, and the inode will end
up being marked dirty. Once that happens the inode will never be clean
until there's a WB_SYNC_ALL flush.

Fix this by immediately returning from nfs_commit_unstable_pages when
ncommit == 0.

Mike noticed this problem initially in RHEL5 (2.6.18-based kernel) which
has a backported version of 420e3646. The inode cache there was growing
very large. The inode cache was unable to be shrunk since the inodes
were all marked dirty. Calling sync() would essentially "fix" the
problem -- the WB_SYNC_ALL flush would result in the inodes all being
marked clean.

What I'm not clear on is how big a problem this is in mainline kernels
as the writeback code there is very different. Either way, it seems
incorrect to re-mark the inode dirty in this case.

Reported-by: Mike McLean <mikem@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2011-10-18 09:08:10 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 59b7c05fff Revert "NFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() calls write_inode() when syncing"
This reverts commit b80c3cb628.

The reverted commit was rendered obsolete by a VFS fix: commit
5547e8aac6 (writeback: Update dirty flags in
two steps). We now no longer need to worry about writeback_single_inode()
missing our marking the inode for COMMIT in 'do_writepages()' call.

Reverting this patch, fixes a performance regression in which the inode
would continuously get queued to the dirty list, causing the writeback
code to unnecessarily try to send a COMMIT.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust>
Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.35+]
2011-10-18 09:08:09 -07:00
Trond Myklebust f13c3620a4 NFS: Fix a typo in nfs_flush_multi
Fix a typo which causes an Oops in the RPC layer, when using wsize < 4k.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tested-by: Sricharan R <r.sricharan@ti.com>
2011-09-13 17:06:57 -04:00