BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/fs/gfs2/meta_io.h, branch dev

GFS2: Fix address space from page function

2014-03-31T16:48:27+00:00

Now that rgrps use the address space which is part of the super block, we need to update gfs2_mapping2sbd() to take account of that. The only way to do that easily is to use a different set of address_space_operations for rgrps. Reported-by: Abhi Das Tested-by: Abhi Das Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Move gfs2_sync_meta to lops.c

2013-08-19T16:26:32+00:00

Since gfs2_sync_meta() is only called from a single file, lets move it to lops.c where it is used, and mark it static. At the same time, we can clean up the meta_io.h header too. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Merge gfs2_attach_bufdata() into trans.c

2013-01-29T10:28:44+00:00

The locking in gfs2_attach_bufdata() was type specific (data/meta) which made the function rather confusing. This patch moves the core of gfs2_attach_bufdata() into trans.c renaming it gfs2_alloc_bufdata() and moving the locking into gfs2_trans_add_data()/gfs2_trans_add_meta() As a result all of the locking related to adding data and metadata to the journal is now in these two functions. This should help to clarify what is going on, and give us some opportunities to simplify in some cases. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Eliminate unused "new" parameter to gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer

2012-05-11T09:19:23+00:00

It turns out that the "new" parameter to function gfs2_meta_indirect_buffer was always being passed in as zero. Therefore, this patch eliminates it and simplifies the function. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Remove unused macro

2011-04-20T08:00:24+00:00

The buffer_in_io() macro has been unused for some time, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Metadata address space clean up

2010-03-01T14:07:37+00:00

Since the start of GFS2, an "extra" inode has been used to store the metadata belonging to each inode. The only reason for using this inode was to have an extra address space, the other fields were unused. This means that the memory usage was rather inefficient. The reason for keeping each inode's metadata in a separate address space is that when glocks are requested on remote nodes, we need to be able to efficiently locate the data and metadata which relating to that glock (inode) in order to sync or sync and invalidate it (depending on the remotely requested lock mode). This patch adds a new type of glock, which has in addition to its normal fields, has an address space. This applies to all inode and rgrp glocks (but to no other glock types which remain as before). As a result, we no longer need to have the second inode. This results in three major improvements: 1. A saving of approx 25% of memory used in caching inodes 2. A removal of the circular dependency between inodes and glocks 3. No confusion between "normal" and "metadata" inodes in super.c Although the first of these is the more immediately apparent, the second is just as important as it now enables a number of clean ups at umount time. Those will be the subject of future patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Clean up of glops.c

2009-03-24T11:21:27+00:00

This cleans up a number of bits of code mostly based in glops.c. A couple of simple functions have been merged into the callers to make it more obvious what is going on, the mysterious raising of i_writecount around the truncate_inode_pages() call has been removed. The meta_go_* operations have been renamed rgrp_go_* since that is the only lock type that they are used with. The unused argument of gfs2_read_sb has been removed. Also a bug has been fixed where a check for the rindex inode was in the wrong callback. More comments are added, and the debugging code is improved too. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Clean up the glock core

2008-06-27T08:39:22+00:00

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 Cc: Bob Peterson

[GFS2] Remove useless i_cache from inodes

2008-01-25T08:07:16+00:00

The i_cache was designed to keep references to the indirect blocks used during block mapping so that they didn't have to be looked up continually. The idea failed because there are too many places where the i_cache needs to be freed, and this has in the past been the cause of many bugs. In addition there was no performance benefit being gained since the disk blocks in question were cached anyway. So this patch removes it in order to simplify the code to prepare for other changes which would otherwise have had to add further support for this feature. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Clean up journaled data writing

2007-10-10T07:56:24+00:00

This patch cleans up the code for writing journaled data into the log. It also removes the need to allocate a small "tag" structure for each block written into the log. Instead we just keep count of the outstanding I/O so that we can be sure that its all been written at the correct time. Another result of this patch is that a number of ll_rw_block() calls have become submit_bh() calls, closing some races at the same time. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse