Under heavy multi-way parallel create workloads, the VFS struggles
to write back all the inodes that have been changed in age order.
The bdi flusher thread becomes CPU bound, spending 85% of it's time
in the VFS code, mostly traversing the superblock dirty inode list
to separate dirty inodes old enough to flush.
We already keep an index of all metadata changes in age order - in
the AIL - and continued log pressure will do age ordered writeback
without any extra overhead at all. If there is no pressure on the
log, the xfssyncd will periodically write back metadata in ascending
disk address offset order so will be very efficient.
Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit
or when changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the
inodes in the superblock dirty list to those containing data or
unlogged metadata changes.
However, the timstamp changes are slightly more complex than this -
there are a couple of places that do unlogged updates of the
timestamps, and the VFS need to be informed of these. Hence add a
new function xfs_trans_ichgtime() for transactional changes,
and leave xfs_ichgtime() for the non-transactional changes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Replace the xfs_itrace_entry catchall with specific trace points. For
most simple callers we now use the simple inode class, which used to
be the iget class, but add more details tracing for namespace events,
which now includes the name of the directory entries manipulated.
Remove the xfs_inactive trace point, which is a duplicate of the clear_inode
one, and the xfs_change_file_space trace point, which is immediately
followed by the more specific alloc/free space trace points.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Currently we need to either call IHOLD or xfs_trans_ihold on an inode when
joining it to a transaction via xfs_trans_ijoin.
This patches instead makes xfs_trans_ijoin usable on it's own by doing
an implicity xfs_trans_ihold, which also allows us to drop the third
argument. For the case where we want to hold a reference on the inode
a xfs_trans_ijoin_ref wrapper is added which does the IHOLD and marks
the inode for needing an xfs_iput. In addition to the cleaner interface
to the caller this also simplifies the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.
This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead. If we'll ever get HSM
support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
is much help for future work.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Convert the old xfs tracing support that could only be used with the
out of tree kdb and xfsidbg patches to use the generic event tracer.
To use it make sure CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING is enabled and then enable
all xfs trace channels by:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xfs/enable
or alternatively enable single events by just doing the same in one
event subdirectory, e.g.
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xfs/xfs_ihold/enable
or set more complex filters, etc. In Documentation/trace/events.txt
all this is desctribed in more detail. To reads the events do a
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
Compared to the last posting this patch converts the tracing mostly to
the one tracepoint per callsite model that other users of the new
tracing facility also employ. This allows a very fine-grained control
of the tracing, a cleaner output of the traces and also enables the
perf tool to use each tracepoint as a virtual performance counter,
allowing us to e.g. count how often certain workloads git various
spots in XFS. Take a look at
http://lwn.net/Articles/346470/
for some examples.
Also the btree tracing isn't included at all yet, as it will require
additional core tracing features not in mainline yet, I plan to
deliver it later.
And the really nice thing about this patch is that it actually removes
many lines of code while adding this nice functionality:
fs/xfs/Makefile | 8
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 52 -
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h | 2
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 117 +--
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h | 33
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_fs_subr.c | 3
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c | 87 --
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h | 45 -
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c | 104 ---
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.h | 7
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c | 1
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.c | 75 ++
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.h | 1369 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h | 4
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c | 110 ---
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.h | 21
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c | 40 -
fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c | 4
fs/xfs/support/ktrace.c | 323 ---------
fs/xfs/support/ktrace.h | 85 --
fs/xfs/xfs.h | 16
fs/xfs/xfs_ag.h | 14
fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c | 230 +-----
fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.h | 27
fs/xfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c | 1
fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c | 107 ---
fs/xfs/xfs_attr.h | 10
fs/xfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c | 14
fs/xfs/xfs_attr_sf.h | 40 -
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c | 507 +++------------
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.h | 49 -
fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_btree.c | 6
fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c | 5
fs/xfs/xfs_btree_trace.h | 17
fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c | 87 --
fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h | 20
fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c | 3
fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.h | 7
fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c | 2
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2.c | 8
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c | 20
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c | 21
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_node.c | 27
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_sf.c | 26
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_trace.c | 216 ------
fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_trace.h | 72 --
fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c | 8
fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c | 2
fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c | 111 ---
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c | 67 --
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 76 --
fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c | 5
fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c | 85 --
fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.h | 8
fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 181 +----
fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h | 20
fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c | 1
fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 2
fs/xfs/xfs_quota.h | 8
fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c | 1
fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c | 1
fs/xfs/xfs_rw.c | 3
fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h | 47 +
fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c | 62 -
fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 8
70 files changed, 2151 insertions(+), 2592 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Kill the quota ops function vector and replace it with direct calls or
stubs in the CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=n case.
Make sure we check XFS_IS_QUOTA_RUNNING in the right spots. We can remove
the number of those checks because the XFS_TRANS_DQ_DIRTY flag can't be set
otherwise.
This brings us back closer to the way this code worked in IRIX and earlier
Linux versions, but we keep a lot of the more useful factoring of common
code.
Eventually we should also kill xfs_qm_bhv.c, but that's left for a later
patch.
Reduces the size of the source code by about 250 lines and the size of
XFS module by about 1.5 kilobytes with quotas enabled:
text data bss dec hex filename
615957 2960 3848 622765 980ad fs/xfs/xfs.o
617231 3152 3848 624231 98667 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old
Fallout:
- xfs_qm_dqattach is split into xfs_qm_dqattach_locked which expects
the inode locked and xfs_qm_dqattach which does the locking around it,
thus removing XFS_QMOPT_ILOCKED.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Remove the last of the macros-defined-to-static-functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Check for the project ID after attaching all inodes to the transaction.
That way the unlock in the error case is done by the transaction subsystem,
which guaratees that is uses the right flags (which was wrong from day one
of this check), and avoids having special code unlocking an array of inodes
with potential duplicates. Attaching the inode first is the method used
by xfs_rename and the other namespace methods all other error that require
multiple locked inodes.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
When project quota is active and is being used for directory tree
quota control, we disallow rename outside the current directory
tree. This requires a check to be made after all the inodes
involved in the rename are locked. We fail to unlock the inodes
correctly if we disallow the rename when the target is outside the
current directory tree. This results in a hang on the next access
to the inodes involved in failed rename.
Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
i_gen is incremented in directory operations when the
directory is changed. It is never read or otherwise used
so it should be removed to help reduce the size of the
struct xfs_inode.
The patch also removes a duplicate logging of the directory
inode core. We only need to do this once per transaction
so kill the one associated with the i_gen increment.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
As reported by Michael-John Turner XFS updates the mtime on the source
inode of a rename call in case it's a directory and changes the parent.
This doesn't make any sense, is not mentioned in the standards and not
performed by any other Linux filesystems so remove it.
SGI-PV: 983684
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31364a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Similar to to the previous patch for remove and rmdir only grab a
reference to inodes when we join them to transaction to balance the
decrement on transaction completion. Everything else it taken care of by
the VFS.
Note that the old case had leaks of inode count when src == target or src
or target == one of the parent inodes, but these cases are fortunately
already rejected by the VFS.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30904a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
->rename already gets the target inode passed if it exits. Pass it down to
xfs_rename so that we can avoid looking it up again. Also simplify locking
as the first lock section in xfs_rename can go away now: the isdir is an
invariant over the lifetime of the inode, and new_parent and the nlink
check are namespace topology protected by i_mutex in the VFS. The projid
check needs to move into the second lock section anyway to not be racy.
Also kill the now unused xfs_dir_lookup_int and remove the now-unused
first_locked argumet to xfs_lock_inodes.
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30903a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Instead of of xfs_get_dir_entry use a macro to get the xfs_inode from the
dentry in the callers and grab the reference manually.
Only grab the reference once as it's fine to keep it over the dmapi calls.
(And even that reference is actually superflous in Linux but I'll leave
that for another patch)
SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30531a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Remove the xfs_refcache, it was only needed while we were still
building for 2.4 kernels.
SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30472a
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
These are mostly locking annotations, marking things static, casts where
needed and declaring stuff in header files.
SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30002a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Simplify vnode tracing calls by embedding function name & return addr in
the calling macro.
Also do a lot of vnode->inode renaming for consistency, while we're at it.
SGI-PV: 970335
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29650a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
struct bhv_vnode is on it's way out, so move the trace buffer to the XFS
inode. Note that this makes the tracing macros rather misnamed, but this
kind of fallout will be fixed up incrementally later on.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29498a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
All vnode ops now take struct xfs_inode pointers and the behaviour related
glue is split out into methods of it's own. This required fixing
xfs_create/mkdir/symlink to not mess with the inode pointer but rather use
a separate boolean for error handling. Thanks to Dave Chinner for that
fix.
SGI-PV: 969608
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29492a
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
One of the perpetual scaling problems XFS has is indexing it's incore
inodes. We currently uses hashes and the default hash sizes chosen can
only ever be a tradeoff between memory consumption and the maximum
realistic size of the cache.
As a result, anyone who has millions of inodes cached on a filesystem
needs to tunes the size of the cache via the ihashsize mount option to
allow decent scalability with inode cache operations.
A further problem is the separate inode cluster hash, whose size is based
on the ihashsize but is smaller, and so under certain conditions (sparse
cluster cache population) this can become a limitation long before the
inode hash is causing issues.
The following patchset removes the inode hash and cluster hash and
replaces them with radix trees to avoid the scalability limitations of the
hashes. It also reduces the size of the inodes by 3 pointers....
SGI-PV: 969561
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29481a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
The firstblock argument to xfs_bmap_finish is not used by that function.
Remove it and cleanup the code a bit.
Patch provided by Eric Sandeen.
SGI-PV: 960196
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28034a
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Dave Chinner