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From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: [patch] remove unnecessary periodic superblock logging.
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:20:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410042001.GF108924158@sgi.com> (raw)

Remove periodic logging of in-core superblock counters.

xfssyncd triggers the logging of superblock counters every
30s if the filesystem is made with lazy-count=1. This will
prevent disks from idling and spinning down as there will
be a log write every 30s. With the way counter recovery
works for lazy-count=1, this code is unnecessary and provides
no real benefit, so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c |    3 +--
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h   |    1 -
 fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c          |   13 -------------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 16 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.x-xfs-new.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c	2008-04-10 10:02:14.000000000 +1000
+++ 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c	2008-04-10 10:02:58.419346393 +1000
@@ -1028,8 +1028,7 @@ xfs_sync_worker(
 	int		error;
 
 	if (!(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY))
-		error = xfs_sync(mp, SYNC_FSDATA | SYNC_BDFLUSH | SYNC_ATTR |
-				     SYNC_REFCACHE | SYNC_SUPER);
+		error = xfs_sync(mp, SYNC_FSDATA | SYNC_BDFLUSH | SYNC_ATTR);
 	mp->m_sync_seq++;
 	wake_up(&mp->m_wait_single_sync_task);
 }
Index: 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6.x-xfs-new.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h	2008-04-10 10:00:25.000000000 +1000
+++ 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vfs.h	2008-04-10 10:02:58.419346393 +1000
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ typedef struct bhv_vfs_sync_work {
 #define SYNC_REFCACHE		0x0040  /* prune some of the nfs ref cache */
 #define SYNC_REMOUNT		0x0080  /* remount readonly, no dummy LRs */
 #define SYNC_IOWAIT		0x0100  /* wait for all I/O to complete */
-#define SYNC_SUPER		0x0200  /* flush superblock to disk */
 
 /*
  * When remounting a filesystem read-only or freezing the filesystem,
Index: 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.x-xfs-new.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c	2008-04-10 10:01:54.000000000 +1000
+++ 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c	2008-04-10 10:03:35.288729547 +1000
@@ -1326,21 +1326,8 @@ xfs_syncsub(
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If asked, update the disk superblock with incore counter values if we
-	 * are using non-persistent counters so that they don't get too far out
-	 * of sync if we crash or get a forced shutdown. We don't want to force
-	 * this to disk, just get a transaction into the iclogs....
-	 */
-	if (flags & SYNC_SUPER) {
-		error = xfs_log_sbcount(mp, 0);
-		if (error)
-			last_error = error;
-	}
-
-	/*
 	 * Now check to see if the log needs a "dummy" transaction.
 	 */
-
 	if (!(flags & SYNC_REMOUNT) && xfs_log_need_covered(mp)) {
 		xfs_trans_t *tp;
 		xfs_inode_t *ip;

             reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10  4:20 David Chinner [this message]
2008-04-10  4:49 ` [patch] remove unnecessary periodic superblock logging Barry Naujok
2008-04-10  5:29   ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-04-10  5:49     ` David Chinner

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