From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronous
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:00:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1301086836.2537.679.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300860870-15471-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 17:14 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> Preallocation and hole punch transactions are currently synchronous
> and this is causing performance problems in some cases. The
> transactions don't need to be synchronous as we don't need to
> guarantee the preallocation is persistent on disk until a
> fdatasync, fsync, sync operation occurs. If the file is opened
> O_SYNC or O_DATASYNC, only then should the transaction be issued
> synchronously.
There's a minor (but important) bug in this. Other than that
this looks good.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c | 4 ++++
> fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c | 4 ++++
> fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 3 ++-
> fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
> index ae59865..baa2cb3 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
> @@ -896,6 +896,7 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
> xfs_flock64_t bf;
> xfs_inode_t *ip = XFS_I(inode);
> int cmd = XFS_IOC_RESVSP;
> + int attr_flags = XFS_ATTR_NOLOCK;
>
> if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE |
> FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE |
> @@ -922,6 +923,9 @@ xfs_file_fallocate(
> goto out_unlock;
> }
>
> + if (file->f_flags & O_DSYNC)
> + attr_flags |= XFS_ATTR_SYNC;
> +
> error = -xfs_change_file_space(ip, cmd, &bf, 0, XFS_ATTR_NOLOCK);
You need to pass attr_flags as the last argument here.
> if (error)
> goto out_unlock;
. . .
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 6:14 xfs: outstanding patches for 2.6.39 Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfs: preallocation transactions do not need to be synchronous Dave Chinner
2011-03-24 17:18 ` brian.foster
2011-03-24 22:53 ` [PATCH V2] " Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-03-25 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] " Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 2/6] vmap: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:00 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: xfs_trans_read_buf() should return an error on failure Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 11:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-25 21:01 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfs: register the inode cache shrinker before quotachecks Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 21:24 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-03-25 12:56 ` Michael Weissenbacher
2011-03-25 23:08 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:01 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-23 6:14 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: stop using the page cache to back the buffer cache Dave Chinner
2011-03-25 21:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-25 22:04 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 7:01 ` xfs: outstanding patches for 2.6.39 Andi Kleen
2011-03-23 11:38 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2011-03-23 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-23 11:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-23 11:38 ` Dave Chinner
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