In the case that a request for a glock arrives right after the
grant reply has arrived, it sometimes means that the gl_tstamp
field hasn't been updated recently enough. The net result is that
the min-hold time for the glock is ignored. If this happens
often enough, it leads to poor performance.
This patch adds an additional test, so that if the reply pending
bit is set on a glock, then it will select the maximum length of
time for the min-hold time, rather than looking at gl_tstamp.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Due to an incorrect iterator, some glocks were being missed from the
glock dumps obtained via debugfs. This patch fixes the problem and
ensures that we don't miss any glocks in future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We already allow local SH locks while we hold a cached EX glock, so here
we allow DF locks as well. This works only because we rely on the VFS's
invalidation for locally cached data, and because if we hold an EX lock,
then we know that no other node can be caching data relating to this
file.
It dramatically speeds up initial writes to O_DIRECT files since we fall
back to buffered I/O for this and would otherwise bounce between DF and
EX modes on each and every write call. The lessons to be learned from
that are to ensure that (for the time being anyway) O_DIRECT files are
preallocated and that they are written to using reasonably large I/O
sizes. Even so this change fixes that corner case nicely
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There is a race in the delayed demote code where it does the wrong thing
if a demotion to UN has occurred for other reasons before the delay has
expired. This patch adds an assert to catch that condition as well as
fixing the root cause by adding an additional check for the UN state.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
There are several reasons why this is undesirable:
1. It never happens during normal operation anyway
2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor
3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage
on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve
4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be
correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems
to be a black art.
5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually
contribute to solving the problem on average.
So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging
the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch merges the lock_nolock module into GFS2 itself. As well as removing
some of the overhead of the module, it also means that its now impossible to
build GFS2 without a lock module (which would be a pointless thing to do
anyway).
We also plan to merge lock_dlm into GFS2 in the future, but that is a more
tricky task, and will therefore be a separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
This patch implements a number of cleanups to the core of the
GFS2 glock code. As a result a lot of code is removed. It looks
like a really big change, but actually a large part of this patch
is either removing or moving existing code.
There are some new bits too though, such as the new run_queue()
function which is considerably streamlined. Highlights of this
patch include:
o Fixes a cluster coherency bug during SH -> EX lock conversions
o Removes the "glmutex" code in favour of a single bit lock
o Removes the ->go_xmote_bh() for inodes since it was duplicating
->go_lock()
o We now only use the ->lm_lock() function for both locks and
unlocks (i.e. unlock is a lock with target mode LM_ST_UNLOCKED)
o The fast path is considerably shortly, giving performance gains
especially with lock_nolock
o The glock_workqueue is now used for all the callbacks from the DLM
which allows us to simplify the lock_dlm module (see following patch)
o The way is now open to make further changes such as eliminating the two
threads (gfs2_glockd and gfs2_scand) in favour of a more efficient
scheme.
This patch has undergone extensive testing with various test suites
so it should be pretty stable by now.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
GFS2 wasn't invalidating its cache before it called into the lock manager
with a request that could potentially drop a lock. This was leaving a
window where the lock could be actually be held by another node, but the
file's page cache would still appear valid, causing coherency problems.
This patch moves the cache invalidation to before the lock manager call
when dropping a lock. It also adds the option to the lock_dlm lock
manager to not use conversion mode deadlock avoidance, which, on a
conversion from shared to exclusive, could internally drop the lock, and
then reacquire in. GFS2 now asks lock_dlm to not do this. Instead, GFS2
manually drops the lock and reacquires it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As a result of an earlier patch, drop_bh was being called in cases
when it shouldn't have been. Since we never have a gh in the drop
case and we always have a gh in the promote case, we can use that
extra information to tell which case has been seen.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
This patch further reduces GFS2's memory requirements by
eliminating the 64-bit version number fields in lieu of
a couple bits.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The functions in lm.c were just wrappers which were mostly
only used in one other file. By moving the functions to
the files where they are being used, they can be marked
static and also this will usually result in them being inlined
since they are often only used from one point in the code.
A couple of really trivial functions have been inlined by hand
into the function which called them as it makes the code clearer
to do that.
We also gain from one fewer function call in the glock lock and
unlock paths.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch further reduces the memory needs of GFS2 by
eliminating the gl_req_bh variable from struct gfs2_glock.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch reduces memory by replacing the int variable
gl_waiters2 by a single bit in the gl_flags.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch only wakes up the glock reclaim daemon if there is
actually something to be reclaimed.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The gl_owner_pid field is used to get the lock owning task by its pid, so make
it in a proper manner, i.e. by using the struct pid pointer and pid_task()
function.
The pid_task() becomes exported for the gfs2 module.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The gl_owner_pid field is used to get the holder task by its pid and check
whether the current is a holder, so make it in a proper manner, i.e. via the
struct pid * manipulations.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch optimizes the function gfs2_glmutex_lock.
The basic theory is: Why bother initializing a holder, setting up
wait bits and then waiting on them, if you know the glock can be
yours. So the holder stuff is placed inside the if checking if the
glock is locked. This one needs careful scrutiny because changing
anything to do with locking should strike terror into one's heart.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The issue is indeed UP vs SMP and it is totally random.
spin_is_locked() is a bad assertion because there is no correct answer on UP.
on UP spin_is_locked() has to return either one value or another, always.
This means that in my setup I am lucky enough to trigger the issue and your you
are lucky enough not to.
the patch in attachment removes the bogus calls to BUG_ON and according to David
(in CC and thanks for the long explanation on the problem) we can rely upon
things like lockdep to find problem that might be trying to catch.
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The only reason for adding glocks to the journal was to keep track
of which locks required a log flush prior to release. We add a
flag to the glock to allow this check to be made in a simpler way.
This reduces the size of a glock (by 12 bytes on i386, 24 on x86_64)
and means that we can avoid extra work during the journal flush.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The HIF_MUTEX and HIF_PROMOTE flags were set on the glock holders
depending upon which of the two waiters lists they were going to
be queued upon. They were then tested when the holders were taken
off the lists to ensure that the right type of holder was being
dequeued.
Since we are already using separate lists, there doesn't seem a
lot of point having these flags as well, and since setting them
and testing them is in the fast path for locking and unlocking
glock, this patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Previously we were doing (write data, wait for data, write metadata, wait
for metadata). After this patch we so (write metadata, write data, wait for
data, wait for metadata) which should be more efficient.
Also I noticed that the drop_bh and xmote_bh functions were almost
identical. In fact the only difference was a single test, and that
test is such that in the drop_bh case, it would always evaluate to
the correct result. As such we can use the xmote_bh functions in
all the places where we were using the drop_bh function and remove
the drop_bh functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This call to reclaim glocks is not needed, and in particular we don't want it
in the fast path for locking glocks. The limit was entirely arbitrary anyway
and we can't expect users to adjust things like this, the remaining code will
do the right thing on its own.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Fix a race condition where multiple glock demote requests are sent to
a node back-to-back. This patch does a check inside handle_callback()
to see whether a demote request is in progress. If true, it sets a flag
to make sure run_queue() will loop again to handle the new request,
instead of erronously setting gl_demote_state to a different state.
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Move inode deletion code out of blocking_cb handle_callback route to
avoid racy conditions that end up blocking lock_dlm1 thread. Fix
bugzilla 286821.
Signed-off-by: Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new flag to the gfs2_holder structure GL_FLOCK.
It is set on holders of glocks representing flocks. This flag is
checked in add_to_queue() and a process is permitted to queue more
than one holder onto a glock if it is set. This solves the issue
of a process not being able to do multiple flocks on the same file.
Through a single descriptor, a process can now promote and demote
flocks. Through multiple descriptors a process can now queue
multiple flocks on the same file. There's still the problem of
a process deadlocking itself (because gfs2 blocking locks are not
interruptible) by queueing incompatible deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When a lot of IO, with some distributed mmap IO, is run on a GFS2 filesystem in
a cluster, it will deadlock. The reason is that do_no_page() will repeatedly
call gfs2_sharewrite_nopage(), because each node keeps giving up the glock
too early, and is forced to call unmap_mapping_range(). This bumps the
mapping->truncate_count sequence count, forcing do_no_page() to retry. This
patch institutes a minimum glock hold time a tenth a second. This insures
that even in heavy contention cases, the node has enough time to get some
useful work done before it gives up the glock.
A second issue is that when gfs2_glock_dq() is called from within a page fault
to demote a lock, and the associated page needs to be written out, it will
try to acqire a lock on it, but it has already been locked at a higher level.
This patch puts makes gfs2_glock_dq() use the work queue as well, to avoid this
issue. This is the same patch as Steve Whitehouse originally proposed to fix
this issue, execpt that gfs2_glock_dq() now grabs a reference to the glock
before it queues up the work on it.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin E. Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
With this patch, gfs2 glockdump through the debugfs filesystem will only
dump glocks for the specified filesystem instead of all glocks. Also, to
aid debugging, the glock number is dumped in hex instead of decimal.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: S. Wendy Cheng <wcheng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
We only need a single gfs2_scand process rather than the one
per filesystem which we had previously. As a result the parameter
determining the frequency of gfs2_scand runs becomes a module
parameter rather than a mount parameter as it was before.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
these struct *_operations are all method tables, thus should be const.
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fixes an oops which was occurring during glock dumping due to the
seq file code not taking a reference to the glock. Also this fixes a
memory leak which occurred in certain cases, in turn preventing the
filesystem from unmounting.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
fs/gfs2/
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If a glock is in the exclusive state and a request for demote to
deferred has been received, then further requests for demote to
shared are being ignored. This patch fixes that by ensuring that
we demote to unlocked in that case.
Signed-off-by: Josef Whiter <jwhiter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
One of the races relates to referencing a variable while not holding
its protecting spinlock. The patch simply moves the test inside the
spin lock. The other races occurs when a demote to unlocked request
occurs during the time a demote to shared request is already running.
This of course only happens in the case that the lock was in the
exclusive mode to start with. The patch adds a check to see if another
demote request has occurred in the mean time and if it has, then it
performs a second demote.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There is a bug in the code which acquires multiple glocks where if the
initial out-of-order attempt fails part way though we can land up trying
to acquire the wrong number of glocks. This is part of the fix for red
hat bz #239737. The other part of the bz doesn't apply to upstream
kernels since it was fixed by:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d3717bdf8f08a0e1039158c8bab2c24d20f492b6
Since the out-of-order code doesn't appear to add anything to the
performance of GFS2, this patch just removed it rather than trying to
fix it. It should be much easier to see whats going on here now. In
addition, we don't allocate any memory unless we are using a lot of
glocks (which is a relatively uncommon case).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There were two issues during deallocation of unlinked inodes. The
first was relating to the use of a "try" lock which in the case of
the inode lock wasn't trying hard enough to deallocate in all
circumstances (now changed to a normal glock) and in the case of
the iopen lock didn't wait for the demotion of the shared lock before
attempting to get the exclusive lock, and thereby sometimes (timing dependent)
not completing the deallocation when it should have done.
The second issue related to the lack of a way to invalidate dcache entries
on remote nodes (now fixed by this patch) which meant that unlinks were
taking a long time to return disk space to the fs. By adding some code to
invalidate the dcache entries across the cluster for unlinked inodes, that
is now fixed.
This patch was written jointly by Abhijith Das and Steven Whitehouse.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch cleans up the inode number handling code. The main difference
is that instead of looking up the inodes using a struct gfs2_inum_host
we now use just the no_addr member of this structure. The tests relating
to no_formal_ino can then be done by the calling code. This has
advantages in that we want to do different things in different code
paths if the no_formal_ino doesn't match. In the NFS patch we want to
return -ESTALE, but in the ->lookup() path, its a bug in the fs if the
no_formal_ino doesn't match and thus we can withdraw in this case.
In order to later fix bz #201012, we need to be able to look up an inode
without knowing no_formal_ino, as the only information that is known to
us is the on-disk location of the inode in question.
This patch will also help us to fix bz #236099 at a later date by
cleaning up a lot of the code in that area.
There are no user visible changes as a result of this patch and there
are no changes to the on-disk format either.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This addendum patch 2 corrects three things:
1. It fixes a stupid mistake in the previous addendum that broke gfs2.
Ref: https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2007-May/msg00162.html
2. It fixes a problem that Dave Teigland pointed out regarding the
external declarations in ops_address.h being in the wrong place.
3. It recasts a couple more %llu printks to (unsigned long long)
as requested by Steve Whitehouse.
I would have loved to put this all in one revised patch, but there was
a rush to get some patches for RHEL5. Therefore, the previous patches
were applied to the git tree "as is" and therefore, I'm posting another
addendum. Sorry.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Now that the patch from -mm has gone upstream, we can uncomment the code
in GFS2 which uses sprintf_symbol.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
The patch below consists of the following changes (in code order):
1. I fixed a minor compiler warning regarding the printing of
a kernel symbol address.
2. I implemented a suggestion from Dave Teigland that moves
the debugfs information for gfs2 into a subdirectory so
we can easily expand our use of debugfs in the future.
The current code keeps the glock information in:
/debug/gfs2/<fs>
With the patch, the new code keeps the glock information in:
/debug/gfs2/<fs>/glock
That will allow us to create more debugfs files in the future.
3. This fixes a bug whereby a failed mount attempt causes the
debugfs file to not be deleted. Failed mount attempts should
always clean up after themselves, including deleting the
debugfs file and/or directory.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is for Bugzilla Bug 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debugfs/gfs2/xxx
(lock dump) seen at the "gfs2 summit". This also fixes the bug that caused
garbage to be printed by the "initialized at" field. I apologize for the
kludge, but that code will all be ripped out anyway when the official
sprint_symbol function becomes available in the Linux kernel. I also
changed some formatting so that spaces are replaced by proper tabs.
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
In Testing the previously posted and accepted patch for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228540
I uncovered some gfs2 badness. It turns out that the current
gfs2 code saves off a process pointer when glocks is taken
in both the glock and glock holder structures. Those
structures will persist in memory long after the process has
ended; pointers to poisoned memory.
This problem isn't caused by the 228540 fix; the new capability
introduced by the fix just uncovered the problem.
I wrote this patch that avoids saving process pointers
and instead saves off the process pid. Rather than
referencing the bad pointers, it now does process lookups.
There is special code that makes the output nicer for
printing holder information for processes that have ended.
This patch also adds a stub for the new "sprint_symbol"
function that exists in Andrew Morton's -mm patch set, but
won't go into the base kernel until 2.6.22, since it adds
functionality but doesn't fix a bug.
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Since gcc didn't evaluate the last two terms of the expression in
glock.c:1881 as a constant expression, it resulted in an error on
i386 due to the lack of a 64bit divide instruction. This adds some
brackets to fix the problem.
This was reported by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch prevents the printing of a warning message in cases where
the fs is functioning normally by handing off responsibility for
unlinked, but still open inodes, to another node for eventual deallocation.
Also, there is now an improved system for ensuring that such requests
to other nodes do not get lost. The callback on the iopen lock is
only ever called when i_nlink == 0 and when a node is unable to deallocate
it due to it still being in use on another node. When a node receives
the callback therefore, it knows that i_nlink must be zero, so we mark
it as such (in gfs2_drop_inode) in order that it will then attempt
deallocation of the inode itself.
As an additional benefit, queuing a demote request no longer requires
a memory allocation. This simplifies the code for dealing with gfs2_holders
as it removes one special case.
There are two new fields in struct gfs2_glock. gl_demote_state is the
state which the remote node has requested and gl_demote_time is the
time when the request came in. Both fields are only valid when the
GLF_DEMOTE flag is set in gl_flags.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
If you specify an invalid mount option when trying to mount a gfs2 filesystem,
gfs2 will oops. The attached patch resolves this problem.
Signed-off-by: Josef Whiter <jwhiter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The attached patch resolves bz 228540. This adds the capability
for gfs2 to dump gfs2 locks through the debugfs file system.
This used to exist in gfs1 as "gfs_tool lockdump" but it's missing from
gfs2 because all the ioctls were stripped out. Please see the bugzilla
for more history about the fix. This patch is also attached to the bugzilla
record.
The patch is against Steve Whitehouse's latest nmw git tree kernel
(2.6.21-rc1) and has been tested on system trin-10.
Signed-off-by: Robert Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/glock.c:2198: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared here (not in a function)
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Teigland fixed this bug a while back, but I managed to mistakenly
remove the semaphore during later development. It is required to avoid
the list of inodes changing during an invalidate_inodes call. I have
made it an rwsem since the read side will be taken frequently during
normal filesystem operation. The write site will only happen during
umount of the file system.
Also the bug only triggers when using the DLM lock manager and only then
under certain conditions as its timing related.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
This function is not longer required since we do not do recursive
locking in the glock layer. As a result all its callers can be
replaceed with list_empty() calls.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch doesn't make any changes to the ordering of the various
operations related to glocking, but it does tidy up the calls to the
glops.c functions to make the structure more obvious.
The two functions: gfs2_glock_xmote_th() and gfs2_glock_drop_th() can be
made static within glock.c since they are called by every set of glock
operations. The xmote_th and drop_th glock operations are then made
conditional upon those two routines existing and called from the
previously mentioned functions in glock.c respectively.
Also it can be seen that the go_sync operation isn't needed since it can
easily be replaced by calls to xmote_bh and drop_bh respectively. This
results in no longer (confusingly) calling back into routines in glock.c
from glops.c and also reducing the glock operations by one member.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is a patch for GFS2 to remove the local exclusive flag. In
the places it was used, mutex's are always held earlier in the
call path, so it appears redundant in the LM_ST_SHARED case.
Also, the GFS2 holders were setting local exclusive in any case where
the requested lock was LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE. So the other places in the glock
code where the flag was tested have been replaced with tests for the
lock state being LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE in order to ensure the logic is the
same as before (i.e. LM_ST_EXCLUSIVE is always locally exclusive as well
as globally exclusive).
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The "greedy" code was an attempt to retain glocks for a minimum length
of time when they relate to mmap()ed files. The current implementation
of this feature is not, however, ideal in that it required allocating
memory in order to do this and its overly complicated.
It also misses the mark by ignoring the other I/O operations which are
just as likely to suffer from the same problem. So the plan is to remove
this now and then add the functionality back as part of the glock state
machine at a later date (and thus take into account all the possible
users of this feature)
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Here is something I spotted (while looking for something entirely
different) the other day.
Rather than using a completion in each and every struct gfs2_holder,
this removes it in favour of hashed wait queues, thus saving a
considerable amount of memory both on the stack (where a number of
gfs2_holder structures are allocated) and in particular in the
gfs2_inode which has 8 gfs2_holder structures embedded within it.
As a result on x86_64 the gfs2_inode shrinks from 2488 bytes to
1912 bytes, a saving of 576 bytes per inode (no thats not a typo!).
In actual practice we get a much better result than that since
now that a gfs2_inode is under the 2048 byte barrier, we get two
per 4k slab page effectively halving the amount of memory required
to store gfs2_inodes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes the extra filldir callback which gfs2 was using to
enclose an attempt at readahead for inodes during readdir. The
code was too complicated and also hurts performance badly in the
case that the getdents64/readdir call isn't being followed by
stat() and it wasn't even getting it right all the time when it
was.
As a result, on my test box an "ls" of a directory containing 250000
files fell from about 7mins (freshly mounted, so nothing cached) to
between about 15 to 25 seconds. When the directory content was cached,
the time taken fell from about 3mins to about 4 or 5 seconds.
Interestingly in the cached case, running "ls -l" once reduced the time
taken for subsequent runs of "ls" to about 6 secs even without this
patch. Now it turns out that there was a special case of glocks being
used for prefetching the metadata, but because of the timeouts for these
locks (set to 10 secs) the metadata was being timed out before it was
being used and this the prefetch code was constantly trying to prefetch
the same data over and over.
Calling "ls -l" meant that the inodes were brought into memory and once
the inodes are cached, the glocks are not disposed of until the inodes
are pushed out of the cache, thus extending the lifetime of the glocks,
and thus bringing down the time for subsequent runs of "ls"
considerably.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (73 commits)
[DLM] Clean up lowcomms
[GFS2] Change gfs2_fsync() to use write_inode_now()
[GFS2] Fix indent in recovery.c
[GFS2] Don't flush everything on fdatasync
[GFS2] Add a comment about reading the super block
[GFS2] Mount problem with the GFS2 code
[GFS2] Remove gfs2_check_acl()
[DLM] fix format warnings in rcom.c and recoverd.c
[GFS2] lock function parameter
[DLM] don't accept replies to old recovery messages
[DLM] fix size of STATUS_REPLY message
[GFS2] fs/gfs2/log.c:log_bmap() fix printk format warning
[DLM] fix add_requestqueue checking nodes list
[GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_getattr
[GFS2] Fix recursive locking in gfs2_permission
[GFS2] Reduce number of arguments to meta_io.c:getbuf()
[GFS2] Move gfs2_meta_syncfs() into log.c
[GFS2] Fix journal flush problem
[GFS2] mark_inode_dirty after write to stuffed file
[GFS2] Fix glock ordering on inode creation
...
Fix function parameter typing:
fs/gfs2/glock.c💯 warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This fixes a bug which resulted in poor performance due to flushing
the journal too often. The code path in question was via the inode_go_sync()
function in glops.c. The solution is not to flush the journal immediately
when inodes are ejected from memory, but batch up the work for glockd to
deal with later on. This means that glocks may now live on beyond the end of
the lifetime of their inodes (but not very much longer in the normal case).
Also fixed in this patch is a bug (which was hidden by the bug mentioned above) in
calculation of the number of free journal blocks.
The gfs2_logd process has been altered to be more responsive to the journal
filling up. We now wake it up when the number of uncommitted journal blocks
has reached the threshold level rather than trying to flush directly at the
end of each transaction. This again means doing fewer, but larger, log
flushes in general.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The go_sync callback took two flags, but one of them was set on every
call, so this patch removes once of the flags and makes the previously
conditional operations (on this flag), unconditional.
The go_inval callback took three flags, each of which was set on every
call to it. This patch removes the flags and makes the operations
unconditional, which makes the logic rather more obvious.
Two now unused flags are also removed from incore.h.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Change from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS as this was causing a
slow down when trying to push inodes from cache.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There is no way to set the GL_DUMP flag, and in any case the
same thing can be done with systemtap if required for debugging,
so this removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes the duplicate di_mode field in favour of using the
inode->i_mode field. This saves 4 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
lm_interface.h has a few out of the tree clients such as GFS1
and userland tools.
Right now, these clients keeps a copy of the file in their build tree
that can go out of sync.
Move lm_interface.h to include/linux, export it to userland and
clean up fs/gfs2 to use the new location.
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
A one liner bug fix to prevent the return value being
wrong when more than one superblock is mounted.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Use atomic_t as the ref count in glocks rather than a kref.
This is another step towards using RCU for the glock hash.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This results in smaller list heads, so that we can have more chains
in the same amount of memory (twice as many). I've multiplied the
size of the table by four though - this is because we are saving
memory by not having one lock per chain any more. So we land up
using about the same amount of memory for the hash table as we
did before I started these changes, the difference being that we
now have four times as many hash chains.
The reason that I say "about the same amount of memory" is that the
actual amount now depends upon the NR_CPUS and some of the config
variables, so that its not exact and in some cases we do use more
memory. Eventually we might want to scale the hash table size
according to the size of physical ram as measured on module load.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The existing implementation of this function in glock.c was not
very efficient as it relied upon keeping a cursor element upon the
hash chain in question and moving it along. This new version improves
upon this by using the current element as a cursor. This is possible
since we only look at the "next" element in the list after we've
taken the read_lock() subsequent to calling the examiner function.
Obviously we have to eventually drop the ref count that we are then
left with and we cannot do that while holding the read_lock, so we
do that next time we drop the lock. That means either just before
we examine another glock, or when the loop has terminated.
The new implementation has several advantages: it uses only a
read_lock() rather than a write_lock(), so it can run simnultaneously
with other code, it doesn't need a "plug" element, so that it removes
a test not only from this list iterator, but from all the other glock
list iterators too. So it makes things faster and smaller.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Add back the consts which were casted away in the glock sorting
function. Also add early exit code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Make the number of locks used for hash chains in glock.c
proportional to NR_CPUS. Also move constants for the number
of hash chains into glock.c from incore.h since they are
not used outside of glock.c.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This splits the rwlocks guarding the hash chains of the glock hash
table into their own array. This will reduce memory usage in some
cases due to better alignment, although the real reason for doing it
is to allow the two tables to be different sizes in future (i.e.
the locks will be sized proportionally with the max number of CPUs
and the hash chains sized proportinally with the size of physical memory)
In order to allow this, the gl_bucket member of struct gfs2_glock has
now become gl_hash, so we record the hash rather than a pointer to the
bucket itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As requested by Jan Engelhardt, this removes the typedefs in the
locking module interface and replaces them with void *. Also
since we are changing the interface, I've added a few consts
as well.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes one of the typedefs from the locking interface. It
is replaced by a forward declaration of the gfs2 superblock. The
other two are not so easy to solve since in their case, they
can refer to one of two possible structures.
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
There are several reasons why we want to do this:
- Firstly its large and thus we'll scale better with multiple
GFS2 fs mounted at the same time
- Secondly its easier to scale its size as required (thats a plan
for later patches)
- Thirdly, we can use kzalloc rather than vmalloc when allocating
the superblock (its now only 4888 bytes)
- Fourth its all part of my plan to eventually be able to use RCU
with the glock hash.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This is another patch preparing for sharing of the glock hash
table between different gfs2 mounts.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per Jan Engelhardt's second email, this removes some unused code,
and fixes up indenting in various places.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this
updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than
"v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure
declarations which are not required.
The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added
to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the
lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing
a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess
conversions are done as required at various points and thus the
conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've
moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h
and removed the unused lvb.[ch].
I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch
which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the
struct gfs2_holder.
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds the superblock as a key for glock lookups. Since the glocks
are already stored in a per-superblock table, this has no effect at
the moment. Later on this will change though.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We can take advantage of the slab allocator to ensure that all the list
heads and the spinlock (plus one or two other fields) are initialised
by slab to speed up allocation of glocks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Remove the unused sync feature from glocks. This is currently done by
calling the required functions to sync pages/blocks directly so this
code isn't needed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
For all the usual reasons of enforcing correctness and potentially
reducing code size, this patch makes the glock operations const.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch allows the simultaneous mounting of gfs2meta and gfs2
filesystems. A restriction however is that a gfs2meta fs may only be
mounted if its corresponding gfs2 filesystem is also mounted. Also, a
gfs2 filesystem cannot be unmounted before its gfs2meta filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
I noticed the gfs2_scand seemed to be taking a lot of CPU,
so in order to cut that down a bit, here is a patch. Firstly
the type of a glock is a constant during its lifetime, so that
its possible to check this without needing locking. I've moved
the (common) case of testing for an inode glock outside of
the glmutex lock.
Also there was a mutex left over from when the glock cache was
master of the inode cache. That isn't required any more so I've
removed that too.
There is probably scope for further speed ups in the future
in this area.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
recovery.c add a brelse to deal with gfs2_replay_read_block being called
twice on the same block.
add a dput to drop the ref count on the root inode.
This was causing lingering glocks and thus causing
a mount failure to hang.
Fix a endian conversion macro that was was swizzling
16bits when it should have been swizzling 32.
Signed-off-by: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This means that we don't need to create a special inode just to contain
a struct address_space in order to read a single disk block. Instead
we read the disk block directly. Its slightly faster, and uses slightly
less memory, but the real reason for doing this is that it removes a
special case from the glock code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This really is the correct fix this time. We just ignore all
glocks associated with inodes until the inodes are pushed
from the inode cache. At that point the glocks are queued for
reclaim, so we don't need to do it here.
Also fix one or two other minor bugs.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Under certain circumstances the glock scanning logic would
demote locks which ought not to have been selected for
demotion.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This removes one instance of GFP_NOFAIL from the glock callback
function. It also fixes a bug where a , was used at a line end
rather than ; causing unintended results.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked,
but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory
for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these
which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other
fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file
to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the
unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place
on different nodes.
Also there are a number of other changes:
o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be
used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes
o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for
local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in
core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer).
o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it
completely. This makes unlinking more efficient.
o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused
state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes.
o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed
o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in
core struct gfs2_inode
o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core
superblock
There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups
which have been made possible by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds some extra debugging to glock.c and changes
inode.c's deallocation code to call the debugging code
at a suitable moment. I'm chasing down a particular bug
to do with deallocation at the moment and the code can
go again once the bug is fixed.
Also this includes the first part of some changes to unify
the Linux struct inode and GFS2's struct gfs2_inode. This
transformation will happen in small parts over the next short
period.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
We no longer use semaphores, everything has been converted to
mutex or rwsem, so we don't need to include this header any more.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This adds readpages support (and also corrects a small bug in
the readpage error path at the same time). Hopefully this will
improve performance by allowing GFS to submit larger lumps of
I/O at a time.
In order to simplify the setting of BH_Boundary, it currently gets
set when we hit the end of a indirect pointer block. There is
always a boundary at this point with the current allocation code.
It doesn't get all the boundaries right though, so there is still
room for improvement in this.
See comments in fs/gfs2/ops_address.c for further information about
readpages with GFS2.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 unused functions
- remove the following global function that was both unused and
unimplemented:
- super.c: gfs2_do_upgrade()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Despite my earlier careful search, there was a recursive lock left
in the deallocation code. This removes it. It also should speed up
deallocation be reducing the number of locking operations which take
place by using two "try lock" operations on the two locks involved in
inode deallocation which allows us to grab the locks out of order
(compared with NFS which grabs the inode lock first and the iopen
lock later). It is ok for us to fail while doing this since if it
does fail it means that someone else is still using the inode and
thus it wouldn't be possible to deallocate anyway.
This fixes the bug reported to me by Rob Kenna.
Cc: Rob Kenna <rkenna@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch changes the last user of recursive locking so that
it no longer needs this feature and removes it from the glock
layer. This makes the glock code a lot simpler and easier to
understand. Its also a prerequsite to adding support for the
AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE return code (or at least it is if you don't
want your brain to melt in the process)
I've left in a couple of checks just in case there is some place
else in the code which is still using this feature that I didn't
spot yet, but they can probably be removed long term.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
At some stage, a mutex was added to gfs2_glock_put() without
checking all its call sites. Two of them were called from
under a spinlock causing random delays at various points and
crashes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
When allocating memory to sort directory entries, use vmalloc()
rather than kmalloc() since for larger directories, the required
size can easily be graeter than the 128k maximum of kmalloc().
Also adding the first steps towards getting the AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
return code get in the glock code by flagging all places where we
request a glock and we are holding a page lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Update the debugging code in trans.c and at the same time improve
the debugging code for gfs2_holders. The new code should be pretty
fast during the normal case and provide just as much information
in case of errors (or more).
One small function from glock.c has moved to glock.h as a static inline so
that its return address won't get in the way of the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As suggested by Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>.
The DIV_RU macro is renamed DIV_ROUND_UP and and moved to kernel.h
The other macros are gone from gfs2.h as (although not requested
by Pekka Enberg) are a number of included header file which are now
included individually. The inode number comparison function is
now an inline function.
The DT2IF and IF2DT may be addressed in a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
All printk calls now have KERN_ set where required and a couple of
kmalloc(), memset(.., 0, ...) calls changed to kzalloc().
This is in response to comments from:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> and
Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
As well as a number of minor bug fixes, this patch changes GFS
to use mutices rather than semaphores. This results in better
information in case there are any locking problems.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This patch contains all the core files for GFS2.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Steven Whitehouse