user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/writeback.h, branch v3.0-rc5

fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock

2011-03-25T01:17:51Z

All that remains of the inode_lock is protecting the inode hash list manipulation and traversals. Rename the inode_lock to inode_hash_lock to reflect it's actual function. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock

2011-03-25T01:17:51Z

Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable

2010-10-30T16:05:48Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (39 commits) Btrfs: deal with errors from updating the tree log Btrfs: allow subvol deletion by unprivileged user with -o user_subvol_rm_allowed Btrfs: make SNAP_DESTROY async Btrfs: add SNAP_CREATE_ASYNC ioctl Btrfs: add START_SYNC, WAIT_SYNC ioctls Btrfs: async transaction commit Btrfs: fix deadlock in btrfs_commit_transaction Btrfs: fix lockdep warning on clone ioctl Btrfs: fix clone ioctl where range is adjacent to extent Btrfs: fix delalloc checks in clone ioctl Btrfs: drop unused variable in block_alloc_rsv Btrfs: cleanup warnings from gcc 4.6 (nonbugs) Btrfs: Fix variables set but not read (bugs found by gcc 4.6) Btrfs: Use ERR_CAST helpers Btrfs: use memdup_user helpers Btrfs: fix raid code for removing missing drives Btrfs: Switch the extent buffer rbtree into a radix tree Btrfs: restructure try_release_extent_buffer() Btrfs: use the flusher threads for delalloc throttling Btrfs: tune the chunk allocation to 5% of the FS as metadata ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/btrfs/super.c and fs/fs-writeback.c, and remove use of INIT_RCU_HEAD in fs/btrfs/extent_io.c (that init macro was useless and removed in commit 5e8067adfdba: "rcu head remove init")

Add new functions for triggering inode writeback

2010-10-29T15:25:29Z

When btrfs is running low on metadata space, it needs to force delayed allocation pages to disk. It currently does this with a suboptimal walk of a private list of inodes with delayed allocation, and it would be much better if we used the generic flusher threads. writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle would be ideal, but it waits for the flusher thread to start IO on all the dirty pages in the FS before it returns. This adds variants of writeback_inodes_sb* that allow the caller to control how many pages get sent down. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason

Merge branch 'next' into upstream-merge

2010-10-28T03:44:47Z

Conflicts: fs/ext4/inode.c fs/ext4/mballoc.c include/trace/events/ext4.h

ext4: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging

2010-10-28T01:30:13Z

This is analogous to Jan Kara's commit, f446daaea9d4a420d16c606f755f3689dcb2d0ce mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging but since we forked write_cache_pages, we need to reimplement it there (and in ext4_da_writepages, since range_cyclic handling was moved to there) If you start a large buffered IO to a file, and then set fsync after it, you'll find that fsync does not complete until the other IO stops. If you continue re-dirtying the file (say, putting dd with conv=notrunc in a loop), when fsync finally completes (after all IO is done), it reports via tracing that it has written many more pages than the file contains; in other words it has synced and re-synced pages in the file multiple times. This then leads to problems with our writeback_index update, since it advances it by pages written, and essentially sets writeback_index off the end of the file... With the following patch, we only sync as much as was dirty at the time of the sync. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-10-27T00:58:44Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits) split invalidate_inodes() fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list fs: inode split IO and LRU lists fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list fsnotify: use dget_parent smbfs: use dget_parent exportfs: use dget_parent fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate fs: clean up dentry lru modification fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused fs: simplify __d_free fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator new helper: ihold() ...

mm: declare some external symbols

2010-10-26T23:52:10Z

Declare 'bdi_pending_list' and 'tag_pages_for_writeback()' to remove following sparse warnings: mm/backing-dev.c:46:1: warning: symbol 'bdi_pending_list' was not declared. Should it be static? mm/page-writeback.c:825:6: warning: symbol 'tag_pages_for_writeback' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: Implement lazy LRU updates for inodes

2010-10-26T01:26:09Z

Convert the inode LRU to use lazy updates to reduce lock and cacheline traffic. We avoid moving inodes around in the LRU list during iget/iput operations so these frequent operations don't need to access the LRUs. Instead, we defer the refcount checks to reclaim-time and use a per-inode state flag, I_REFERENCED, to tell reclaim that iget has touched the inode in the past. This means that only reclaim should be touching the LRU with any frequency, hence significantly reducing lock acquisitions and the amount contention on LRU updates. This also removes the inode_in_use list, which means we now only have one list for tracking the inode LRU status. This makes it much simpler to split out the LRU list operations under it's own lock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Al Viro

writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds

2010-08-12T15:43:29Z

Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(), so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background threshold (which is the normal state for most systems). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds