* Cleancache support in XFS @ 2012-04-30 17:31 Alexey Vlasov 2012-04-30 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Alexey Vlasov @ 2012-04-30 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xfs Hi. Could you please tell me if you are planning to support cleancache in XFS? And when will it take place approximately? Thank you in advance. -- BRGDS. Alexey Vlasov. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2012-04-30 17:31 Cleancache support in XFS Alexey Vlasov @ 2012-04-30 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig 2012-05-02 8:02 ` Alexey Vlasov 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2012-04-30 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alexey Vlasov; +Cc: xfs On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:31:12PM +0400, Alexey Vlasov wrote: > Hi. > > Could you please tell me if you are planning to support cleancache in > XFS? > And when will it take place approximately? As soon as someone submits a patch. In theory it should just work, but the cleancache maintainer require a completely idiotic one liner to actually enable it. Feel free to submit it once you actually tested it. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2012-04-30 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig @ 2012-05-02 8:02 ` Alexey Vlasov 2012-05-05 23:40 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Alexey Vlasov @ 2012-05-02 8:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: xfs On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:12:18PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Could you please tell me if you are planning to support cleancache in > > XFS? > > As soon as someone submits a patch. In theory it should just work, but > the cleancache maintainer require a completely idiotic one liner to > actually enable it. Feel free to submit it once you actually tested it. Cleancache_init_fs () I can actually put where it it should be but I think it won't be enough. I think there some hooks needed (as for brtfs) but I can't fix it as I'm far from programming. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2012-05-02 8:02 ` Alexey Vlasov @ 2012-05-05 23:40 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2012-05-05 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Alexey Vlasov; +Cc: Christoph Hellwig, xfs On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 12:02:20PM +0400, Alexey Vlasov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:12:18PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > > Could you please tell me if you are planning to support cleancache in > > > XFS? > > > > As soon as someone submits a patch. In theory it should just work, but > > the cleancache maintainer require a completely idiotic one liner to > > actually enable it. Feel free to submit it once you actually tested it. > > Cleancache_init_fs () I can actually put where it it should be but I > think it won't be enough. I think there some hooks needed (as for brtfs) > but I can't fix it as I'm far from programming. XFS uses mpage_readpages() so doesn't need other hooks. btrfs has it's own readpage path, so needs them for that. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Cleancache support in XFS
@ 2013-05-01 12:39 James Dingwall
2013-05-01 16:20 ` Ben Myers
2013-05-13 8:59 ` James Dingwall
0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread
From: James Dingwall @ 2013-05-01 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html
$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs
on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to enable
cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested that this
could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is inline below.
While this seems to compile OK I have no experience in filesystems so I
would appreciate it if anyone can point out that it is obviously wrong
and likely to eat my data before I try booting the kernel.
If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check
that it isn't doing nasty things?
Thanks,
James
--- xfs_super.c 2013-04-29 10:28:22.000000000 +0100
+++ xfs_super.cleancache.c 2013-05-01 13:22:44.367763564 +0100
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/parser.h>
+#include <linux/cleancache.h>
static const struct super_operations xfs_super_operations;
static kmem_zone_t *xfs_ioend_zone;
@@ -1489,6 +1490,8 @@
goto out_unmount;
}
+ cleancache_init_fs(sb);
+
return 0;
out_filestream_unmount:
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-01 12:39 James Dingwall @ 2013-05-01 16:20 ` Ben Myers 2013-05-01 22:30 ` Dave Chinner 2013-05-13 8:59 ` James Dingwall 1 sibling, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Ben Myers @ 2013-05-01 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: xfs Hi James, On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > > $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > the kernel. > > If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > that it isn't doing nasty things? Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly with cleancache. I'd suggest going over that list and the code by inspection first, followed by some xfstests runs, and then wait for it to make a release before trusting any data to it. For a test machine that I'm willing to crater, no worries. But I wouldn't run this on my main workstation without doing the above first. We can probably explore this for 3.11. Thanks for the patch. Regards, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-01 16:20 ` Ben Myers @ 2013-05-01 22:30 ` Dave Chinner 2013-05-02 8:24 ` James Dingwall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2013-05-01 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Myers; +Cc: James Dingwall, xfs On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > Hi James, > > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > > > > $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > > on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > > enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > > that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > > inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > > in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > > it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > > the kernel. > > > > If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > > that it isn't doing nasty things? > > Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > with cleancache. So, those points are: | Some points for a filesystem to consider: | | - The FS should be block-device-based (e.g. a ram-based FS such | as tmpfs should not enable cleancache) OK. |- To ensure coherency/correctness, the FS must ensure that all | file removal or truncation operations either go through VFS or | add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache "invalidate" operations There be dragons - do all the XFS ioctls do the right thing? |- To ensure coherency/correctness, either inode numbers must | be unique across the lifetime of the on-disk file OR the | FS must provide an "encode_fh" function. Ok. |- The FS must call the VFS superblock alloc and deactivate routines | or add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache calls done there. OK. |- To maximize performance, all pages fetched from the FS should | go through the do_mpag_readpage routine or the FS should add | hooks to do the equivalent (cf. btrfs) xfs uses mpage_readpages() so should be fine. |- Currently, the FS blocksize must be the same as PAGESIZE. This | is not an architectural restriction, but no backends currently | support anything different. Which means that we need hooks in the mount path to determine if this is the case or not. I note that neither ext3/ext4 do this check so I can't determine why this restriction is mentioned, and I'm not sure if it has any relevance to btrfs. IOWs, I'd like to know why this restriction exists - what does cleancache care about how the filesystem maps blocks to the page in the page cache - any way the filesystem does this it uses page->private to hide this fact from the page cache.... |- A clustered FS should invoke the "shared_init_fs" cleancache | hook to get best performance for some backends. Not a problem. So there's a couple of things that need to be explained and explored, and a bunch of testing to be done.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-01 22:30 ` Dave Chinner @ 2013-05-02 8:24 ` James Dingwall 2013-05-22 19:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-05-02 8:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Chinner, Ben Myers, konrad.wilk; +Cc: xfs Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: >> Hi James, >> >> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>> In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html >>> >>> $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs >>> on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to >>> enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested >>> that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is >>> inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience >>> in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that >>> it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting >>> the kernel. >>> >>> If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check >>> that it isn't doing nasty things? >> Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which >> includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly >> with cleancache. > So, those points are: I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up time to see what happens. > > | Some points for a filesystem to consider: > | > | - The FS should be block-device-based (e.g. a ram-based FS such > | as tmpfs should not enable cleancache) > > OK. > > |- To ensure coherency/correctness, the FS must ensure that all > | file removal or truncation operations either go through VFS or > | add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache "invalidate" operations > > There be dragons - do all the XFS ioctls do the right thing? vfs_unlink() calls *dir->i_op->unlink, in xfs_iops.c for S_IFDIR there is: if (xfs_sb_version_hasasciici(&XFS_M(inode->i_sb)->m_sb)) inode->i_op = &xfs_dir_ci_inode_operations; else inode->i_op = &xfs_dir_inode_operations; where .unlink in xfs_dir_inode_operations is xfs_vn_unlink() in either condition. I can't work out how to follow the vfs_truncate() in to the filesystem code and perhaps there are other paths that would lead to file removal. > > |- To ensure coherency/correctness, either inode numbers must > | be unique across the lifetime of the on-disk file OR the > | FS must provide an "encode_fh" function. > > Ok. > > |- The FS must call the VFS superblock alloc and deactivate routines > | or add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache calls done there. > > OK. > > |- To maximize performance, all pages fetched from the FS should > | go through the do_mpag_readpage routine or the FS should add > | hooks to do the equivalent (cf. btrfs) > > xfs uses mpage_readpages() so should be fine. I think there is a cleancache documentation bug since no other fs calls do_mpage_readpage(). > > |- Currently, the FS blocksize must be the same as PAGESIZE. This > | is not an architectural restriction, but no backends currently > | support anything different. > > Which means that we need hooks in the mount path to determine if > this is the case or not. I note that neither ext3/ext4 do this check > so I can't determine why this restriction is mentioned, and I'm not > sure if it has any relevance to btrfs. > > IOWs, I'd like to know why this restriction exists - what does > cleancache care about how the filesystem maps blocks to the page in > the page cache - any way the filesystem does this it uses > page->private to hide this fact from the page cache.... + Konrad (cleancache maintainer) for any opinion. > > |- A clustered FS should invoke the "shared_init_fs" cleancache > | hook to get best performance for some backends. > > Not a problem. > > So there's a couple of things that need to be explained and > explored, and a bunch of testing to be done.... > James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-02 8:24 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-05-22 19:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-05-24 7:30 ` James Dingwall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-05-22 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > Dave Chinner wrote: > >On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>Hi James, Hey folks, I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >> > >>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>> > >>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>the kernel. > >>> > >>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>with cleancache. > >So, those points are: > I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > time to see what happens. And how did it go? > > > >| Some points for a filesystem to consider: > >| > >| - The FS should be block-device-based (e.g. a ram-based FS such > >| as tmpfs should not enable cleancache) > > > >OK. > > > >|- To ensure coherency/correctness, the FS must ensure that all > >| file removal or truncation operations either go through VFS or > >| add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache "invalidate" operations > > > >There be dragons - do all the XFS ioctls do the right thing? > vfs_unlink() calls *dir->i_op->unlink, in xfs_iops.c for S_IFDIR there is: > > if (xfs_sb_version_hasasciici(&XFS_M(inode->i_sb)->m_sb)) > inode->i_op = &xfs_dir_ci_inode_operations; > else > inode->i_op = &xfs_dir_inode_operations; > > where .unlink in xfs_dir_inode_operations is xfs_vn_unlink() in either > condition. > > I can't work out how to follow the vfs_truncate() in to the filesystem > code and perhaps there are other paths that would lead to file removal. Did that ever get worked out or are you waiting for a response on that? > > > > >|- To ensure coherency/correctness, either inode numbers must > >| be unique across the lifetime of the on-disk file OR the > >| FS must provide an "encode_fh" function. > > > >Ok. > > > >|- The FS must call the VFS superblock alloc and deactivate routines > >| or add hooks to do the equivalent cleancache calls done there. > > > >OK. > > > >|- To maximize performance, all pages fetched from the FS should > >| go through the do_mpag_readpage routine or the FS should add > >| hooks to do the equivalent (cf. btrfs) > > > >xfs uses mpage_readpages() so should be fine. OK. > I think there is a cleancache documentation bug since no other fs > calls do_mpage_readpage(). The mpage_readpage goes "through the do_mpage(sic)_readpage" routine. There is a bug in that it says 'mpa' instead of 'mpage'. > > > >|- Currently, the FS blocksize must be the same as PAGESIZE. This > >| is not an architectural restriction, but no backends currently > >| support anything different. > > > >Which means that we need hooks in the mount path to determine if > >this is the case or not. I note that neither ext3/ext4 do this check > >so I can't determine why this restriction is mentioned, and I'm not > >sure if it has any relevance to btrfs. > > > >IOWs, I'd like to know why this restriction exists - what does > >cleancache care about how the filesystem maps blocks to the page in > >the page cache - any way the filesystem does this it uses > >page->private to hide this fact from the page cache.... > + Konrad (cleancache maintainer) for any opinion. That is a bug. It should not care about the size of it - as long as 'struct page *' is passed in. If the underlaying architecture has 64KB pages, it should work (and I think it does as zcache2 can do it). > > > >|- A clustered FS should invoke the "shared_init_fs" cleancache > >| hook to get best performance for some backends. > > > >Not a problem. > > > >So there's a couple of things that need to be explained and > >explored, and a bunch of testing to be done.... Any patches that I can put on my environment to test it? Thanks. > > > James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-22 19:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-05-24 7:30 ` James Dingwall 2013-06-07 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-05-24 7:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >> Dave Chinner wrote: >>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: >>>> Hi James, > Hey folks, > I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>> In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html >>>>> >>>>> $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs >>>>> on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to >>>>> enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested >>>>> that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is >>>>> inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience >>>>> in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that >>>>> it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting >>>>> the kernel. >>>>> >>>>> If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check >>>>> that it isn't doing nasty things? >>>> Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which >>>> includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly >>>> with cleancache. >>> So, those points are: >> I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! >> I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my >> thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and >> booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top >> shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll >> try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up >> time to see what happens. > And how did it go? I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in the first message of this thread. Regards, James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-24 7:30 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-06-07 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-07-19 7:18 ` James Dingwall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-06-07 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>>>Hi James, > >Hey folks, > >I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > > > >>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>>>> > >>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>>>the kernel. > >>>>> > >>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>>>with cleancache. > >>>So, those points are: > >>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > >>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > >>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > >>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > >>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > >>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > >>time to see what happens. > >And how did it go? > I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > the first message of this thread. Hey James, I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." Stay tuned. > > Regards, > James > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-06-07 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-07-19 7:18 ` James Dingwall 2013-07-22 15:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-07-19 7:18 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>> Dave Chinner wrote: >>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: >>>>>> Hi James, >>> Hey folks, >>> I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. >>> >>>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>>> In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs >>>>>>> on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to >>>>>>> enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested >>>>>>> that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is >>>>>>> inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience >>>>>>> in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that >>>>>>> it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting >>>>>>> the kernel. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check >>>>>>> that it isn't doing nasty things? >>>>>> Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which >>>>>> includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly >>>>>> with cleancache. >>>>> So, those points are: >>>> I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! >>>> I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my >>>> thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and >>>> booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top >>>> shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll >>>> try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up >>>> time to see what happens. >>> And how did it go? >> I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests >> now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl >> top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using >> ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with >> xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and >> without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for >> me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit >> c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in >> https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in >> the first message of this thread. > Hey James, > > I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > > Stay tuned. Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. Regards, James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-07-19 7:18 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-07-22 15:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-07-23 7:23 ` James Dingwall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-07-22 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>>>>>Hi James, > >>>Hey folks, > >>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >>> > >>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>>>>>the kernel. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>>>>>with cleancache. > >>>>>So, those points are: > >>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > >>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > >>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > >>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > >>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > >>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > >>>>time to see what happens. > >>>And how did it go? > >>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > >>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > >>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > >>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > >>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > >>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > >>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > >>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > >>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > >>the first message of this thread. > >Hey James, > > > >I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > >saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > >unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > >comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > > > >Stay tuned. > Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > > Regards, > James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-07-22 15:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-07-23 7:23 ` James Dingwall 2013-07-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-07-23 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>> Dave Chinner wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi James, >>>>> Hey folks, >>>>> I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. >>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>>>>> In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs >>>>>>>>> on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to >>>>>>>>> enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested >>>>>>>>> that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is >>>>>>>>> inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience >>>>>>>>> in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that >>>>>>>>> it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting >>>>>>>>> the kernel. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check >>>>>>>>> that it isn't doing nasty things? >>>>>>>> Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which >>>>>>>> includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly >>>>>>>> with cleancache. >>>>>>> So, those points are: >>>>>> I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! >>>>>> I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my >>>>>> thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and >>>>>> booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top >>>>>> shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll >>>>>> try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up >>>>>> time to see what happens. >>>>> And how did it go? >>>> I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests >>>> now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl >>>> top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using >>>> ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with >>>> xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and >>>> without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for >>>> me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit >>>> c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in >>>> https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in >>>> the first message of this thread. >>> Hey James, >>> >>> I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am >>> saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are >>> unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can >>> comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." >>> >>> Stay tuned. >> Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this >> patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id 6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further testing be required? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-07-23 7:23 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-07-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner 2013-07-23 8:53 ` James Dingwall 2013-11-21 13:35 ` James Dingwall 0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2013-07-23 8:27 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>>>>>>>Hi James, > >>>>>Hey folks, > >>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>>>>>>>the kernel. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>>>>>>>with cleancache. > >>>>>>>So, those points are: > >>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > >>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > >>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > >>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > >>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > >>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > >>>>>>time to see what happens. > >>>>>And how did it go? > >>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > >>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > >>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > >>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > >>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > >>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > >>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > >>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > >>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > >>>>the first message of this thread. > >>>Hey James, > >>> > >>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > >>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > >>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > >>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > >>> > >>>Stay tuned. > >>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > >>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > >Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > >Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > 6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > testing be required? I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* RE: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-07-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner @ 2013-07-23 8:53 ` James Dingwall 2013-11-21 13:35 ` James Dingwall 1 sibling, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-07-23 8:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Chinner; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk ________________________________________ From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Sent: 23 July 2013 09:27 To: James Dingwall Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Ben Myers; xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Cleancache support in XFS On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>>>>>>>Hi James, > >>>>>Hey folks, > >>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>>>>>>>the kernel. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>>>>>>>with cleancache. > >>>>>>>So, those points are: > >>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > >>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > >>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > >>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > >>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > >>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > >>>>>>time to see what happens. > >>>>>And how did it go? > >>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > >>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > >>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > >>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > >>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > >>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > >>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > >>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > >>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > >>>>the first message of this thread. > >>>Hey James, > >>> > >>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > >>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > >>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > >>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > >>> > >>>Stay tuned. > >>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > >>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > >Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > >Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > 6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > testing be required? I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) I hope that the inline version below will apply cleanly and the white space hasn't been corrupted. Regards, James commit 6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6 Author: James Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk> Date: Wed May 1 17:32:26 2013 +0100 fs/xfs: add cleancache support to the filesystem Enabling cleancache for xfs will allow files cached from an xfs filesystem to be stored in any available tmem pools. This has been tested with Xen 4.2.2 where xl top shows usage of the tmem pools where this is enabled in the guest's kernel. Signed-off-by: James Dingwall <james@dingwall.me.uk> Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 3033ba5..bcc1668 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ #include <linux/kthread.h> #include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/parser.h> +#include <linux/cleancache.h> static const struct super_operations xfs_super_operations; static kmem_zone_t *xfs_ioend_zone; @@ -1500,6 +1501,8 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super( goto out_unmount; } + cleancache_init_fs(sb); + return 0; out_filestream_unmount: _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-07-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner 2013-07-23 8:53 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-11-21 13:35 ` James Dingwall 2013-11-21 16:07 ` Ben Myers 1 sibling, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-11-21 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Chinner; +Cc: Ben Myers, xfs, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Dave Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>> Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>>>> Dave Chinner wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Hi James, >>>>>>> Hey folks, >>>>>>> I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> $ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs >>>>>>>>>>> on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to >>>>>>>>>>> enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested >>>>>>>>>>> that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is >>>>>>>>>>> inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience >>>>>>>>>>> in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that >>>>>>>>>>> it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting >>>>>>>>>>> the kernel. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check >>>>>>>>>>> that it isn't doing nasty things? >>>>>>>>>> Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which >>>>>>>>>> includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly >>>>>>>>>> with cleancache. >>>>>>>>> So, those points are: >>>>>>>> I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! >>>>>>>> I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my >>>>>>>> thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and >>>>>>>> booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top >>>>>>>> shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll >>>>>>>> try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up >>>>>>>> time to see what happens. >>>>>>> And how did it go? >>>>>> I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests >>>>>> now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl >>>>>> top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using >>>>>> ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with >>>>>> xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and >>>>>> without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for >>>>>> me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit >>>>>> c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in >>>>>> https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in >>>>>> the first message of this thread. >>>>> Hey James, >>>>> >>>>> I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am >>>>> saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are >>>>> unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can >>>>> comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." >>>>> >>>>> Stay tuned. >>>> Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this >>>> patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. >>> Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add >>> Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! >> My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git >> xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id >> 6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 >> with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is >> it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further >> testing be required? > I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) > > Cheers, > > Dave. I had a quick look through the 3.12 sources today and noted that this patch did not seem to get picked up. I'm still running with it and am now on 3.12 with no observed problems. I'm happy to rebase against 3.12 if required but it seems simple enough it should go on cleanly to the current development tree. Thanks, James _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-11-21 13:35 ` James Dingwall @ 2013-11-21 16:07 ` Ben Myers 2013-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Chinner 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0 siblings, 2 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Ben Myers @ 2013-11-21 16:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James Dingwall; +Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, xfs Hi James, On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:35:59PM +0000, James Dingwall wrote: > Dave Chinner wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > >>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>Hi James, > >>>>>>>Hey folks, > >>>>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > >>>>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > >>>>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > >>>>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > >>>>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > >>>>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > >>>>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > >>>>>>>>>>>the kernel. > >>>>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > >>>>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > >>>>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > >>>>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > >>>>>>>>>>with cleancache. > >>>>>>>>>So, those points are: > >>>>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > >>>>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > >>>>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > >>>>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > >>>>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > >>>>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > >>>>>>>>time to see what happens. > >>>>>>>And how did it go? > >>>>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > >>>>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > >>>>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > >>>>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > >>>>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > >>>>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > >>>>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > >>>>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > >>>>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > >>>>>>the first message of this thread. > >>>>>Hey James, > >>>>> > >>>>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > >>>>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > >>>>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > >>>>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > >>>>> > >>>>>Stay tuned. > >>>>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > >>>>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > >>>Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > >>>Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > >>My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > >>xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > >>6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > >>with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > >>it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > >>testing be required? > >I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) > > > >Cheers, > > > >Dave. > I had a quick look through the 3.12 sources today and noted that > this patch did not seem to get picked up. I'm still running with it > and am now on 3.12 with no observed problems. I'm happy to rebase > against 3.12 if required but it seems simple enough it should go on > cleanly to the current development tree. It hasn't been picked up because I'm not quite convinced it's ok to do this. See if you can get a Dave, Christoph, or Eric to offer a Reviewed-by with a little explanation of why this is ok and I'll pull it in. ;) Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-11-21 16:07 ` Ben Myers @ 2013-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Chinner 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 1 sibling, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2013-11-21 22:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Myers; +Cc: James Dingwall, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, xfs On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:07:41AM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: > Hi James, > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:35:59PM +0000, James Dingwall wrote: > > Dave Chinner wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>Hi James, > > >>>>>>>Hey folks, > > >>>>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > > >>>>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > > >>>>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > > >>>>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > > >>>>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > > >>>>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > > >>>>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > > >>>>>>>>>>>the kernel. > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > > >>>>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > > >>>>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > > >>>>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > > >>>>>>>>>>with cleancache. > > >>>>>>>>>So, those points are: > > >>>>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > > >>>>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > > >>>>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > > >>>>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > > >>>>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > > >>>>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > > >>>>>>>>time to see what happens. > > >>>>>>>And how did it go? > > >>>>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > > >>>>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > > >>>>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > > >>>>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > > >>>>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > > >>>>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > > >>>>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > > >>>>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > > >>>>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > > >>>>>>the first message of this thread. > > >>>>>Hey James, > > >>>>> > > >>>>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > > >>>>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > > >>>>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > > >>>>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > > >>>>> > > >>>>>Stay tuned. > > >>>>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > > >>>>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > > >>>Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > > >>>Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > > >>My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > > >>xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > > >>6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > > >>with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > > >>it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > > >>testing be required? > > >I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) > > > > > >Cheers, > > > > > >Dave. > > I had a quick look through the 3.12 sources today and noted that > > this patch did not seem to get picked up. I'm still running with it > > and am now on 3.12 with no observed problems. I'm happy to rebase > > against 3.12 if required but it seems simple enough it should go on > > cleanly to the current development tree. > > It hasn't been picked up because I'm not quite convinced it's ok to do this. > See if you can get a Dave, Christoph, or Eric to offer a Reviewed-by with a > little explanation of why this is ok and I'll pull it in. ;) Like I said back in July, it's OK because they performed a substantial amount of testing like we asked them to it didn't show up any obvious regressions. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Chinner @ 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 0 siblings, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-11-26 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dave Chinner; +Cc: James Dingwall, Ben Myers, xfs On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 09:12:14AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:07:41AM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:35:59PM +0000, James Dingwall wrote: > > > Dave Chinner wrote: > > > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > >>>On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > >>>>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > > >>>>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > >>>>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>>>Hi James, > > > >>>>>>>Hey folks, > > > >>>>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > > > >>>>>>> > > > >>>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > > >>>>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > > >>>>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > > > >>>>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > > > >>>>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > > > >>>>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > > > >>>>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > > > >>>>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > > > >>>>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > > > >>>>>>>>>>>the kernel. > > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > > >>>>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > > > >>>>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > > > >>>>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > > > >>>>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > > > >>>>>>>>>>with cleancache. > > > >>>>>>>>>So, those points are: > > > >>>>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > > > >>>>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > > > >>>>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > > > >>>>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > > > >>>>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > > > >>>>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > > > >>>>>>>>time to see what happens. > > > >>>>>>>And how did it go? > > > >>>>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > > > >>>>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > > > >>>>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > > > >>>>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > > > >>>>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > > > >>>>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > > > >>>>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > > > >>>>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > > > >>>>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > > > >>>>>>the first message of this thread. > > > >>>>>Hey James, > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > > > >>>>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > > > >>>>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > > > >>>>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>Stay tuned. > > > >>>>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > > > >>>>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > > > >>>Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > > > >>>Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > > > >>My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > > > >>xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > > > >>6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > > > >>with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > > > >>it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > > > >>testing be required? > > > >I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) > > > > > > > >Cheers, > > > > > > > >Dave. > > > I had a quick look through the 3.12 sources today and noted that > > > this patch did not seem to get picked up. I'm still running with it > > > and am now on 3.12 with no observed problems. I'm happy to rebase > > > against 3.12 if required but it seems simple enough it should go on > > > cleanly to the current development tree. > > > > It hasn't been picked up because I'm not quite convinced it's ok to do this. > > See if you can get a Dave, Christoph, or Eric to offer a Reviewed-by with a > > little explanation of why this is ok and I'll pull it in. ;) > > Like I said back in July, it's OK because they performed a > substantial amount of testing like we asked them to it didn't show > up any obvious regressions. > > Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Yeey! (and I should have so read this before I sent the other email out). Should the patch be rebased and resent? Thanks. > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-11-21 16:07 ` Ben Myers 2013-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Chinner @ 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 1 sibling, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk @ 2013-11-26 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Myers; +Cc: James Dingwall, xfs On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:07:41AM -0600, Ben Myers wrote: > Hi James, > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:35:59PM +0000, James Dingwall wrote: > > Dave Chinner wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:23:00AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:18:12AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>>>On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:30:16AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > >>>>>>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:24:51AM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>>>Dave Chinner wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:20:44AM -0500, Ben Myers wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>Hi James, > > >>>>>>>Hey folks, > > >>>>>>>I am walking through my vacation-emails-mbox. > > >>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 01:39:09PM +0100, James Dingwall wrote: > > >>>>>>>>>>>In reference to: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-05/msg00046.html > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>>$ grep -r cleancache fs/xfs > > >>>>>>>>>>>on the 3.9 kernel source suggests that no patch was submitted to > > >>>>>>>>>>>enable cleancache for the XFS filesystem. Since it was suggested > > >>>>>>>>>>>that this could be a one liner I've had a go and my first effort is > > >>>>>>>>>>>inline below. While this seems to compile OK I have no experience > > >>>>>>>>>>>in filesystems so I would appreciate it if anyone can point out that > > >>>>>>>>>>>it is obviously wrong and likely to eat my data before I try booting > > >>>>>>>>>>>the kernel. > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > >>>>>>>>>>>If it seems a reasonable attempt what would be the best way to check > > >>>>>>>>>>>that it isn't doing nasty things? > > >>>>>>>>>>Hrm.. Looks like there is a doc in Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt which > > >>>>>>>>>>includes a list of attributes the filesystem needs to have to work properly > > >>>>>>>>>>with cleancache. > > >>>>>>>>>So, those points are: > > >>>>>>>>I had started to look at these too but I feel very out of my depth! > > >>>>>>>>I had similar conclusions to what Dave wrote but I don't think my > > >>>>>>>>thoughts should carry very much (any) weight. Anyway I gambled and > > >>>>>>>>booted my xen domU with this patch and so far so good... xen top > > >>>>>>>>shows that tmem is now being used where previously it wasn't. I'll > > >>>>>>>>try running the xfstests at the weekend after a couple more days up > > >>>>>>>>time to see what happens. > > >>>>>>>And how did it go? > > >>>>>>I am running the patch I created on 3.9.3 on half of my xen guests > > >>>>>>now and have not noticed any stability or filesystem problems. xl > > >>>>>>top with 'T' shows that the guests running with it are using > > >>>>>>ephemeral pages were those without do not. I did do some runs with > > >>>>>>xfstests which had some failures but they were present with and > > >>>>>>without the patch. The best I can really offer is that it works for > > >>>>>>me, ymmv. The patch is available as commit > > >>>>>>c725011c4fc5d47e12d131f61bd91a58a40036b5 in > > >>>>>>https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache or in > > >>>>>>the first message of this thread. > > >>>>>Hey James, > > >>>>> > > >>>>>I've run this patch on my local tree and it looks to work right. I am > > >>>>>saying "looks" as I am hitting some other issue that I believe are > > >>>>>unralted to the patch - but I need to figure them out before I can > > >>>>>comfortably say: "Yes, this looks right and works for me as well." > > >>>>> > > >>>>>Stay tuned. > > >>>>Just to add that I have also had no observable problems running this > > >>>>patch on 3.10.0 or 3.10.1. > > >>>Yup. And I tested it as well. In other words if you would like to add > > >>>Acked-by from me that would be super. Thanks! > > >>My patch is now available in https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git > > >>xfs-enable-cleancache as commit id > > >>6d50663e4ec88b7e1fd872b12ac310b1f4bb38c6. I have rebased it on 3.10 > > >>with KRW's Acked-by and my Signed-off-by in the commit message. Is > > >>it reasonable for this to be considered for 3.12 or would further > > >>testing be required? > > >I think that's sufficient. Send it to the list ;) > > > > > >Cheers, > > > > > >Dave. > > I had a quick look through the 3.12 sources today and noted that > > this patch did not seem to get picked up. I'm still running with it > > and am now on 3.12 with no observed problems. I'm happy to rebase > > against 3.12 if required but it seems simple enough it should go on > > cleanly to the current development tree. > > It hasn't been picked up because I'm not quite convinced it's ok to do this. In terms of process (acks, etc) or how it functions/meshes with cleancache? > See if you can get a Dave, Christoph, or Eric to offer a Reviewed-by with a > little explanation of why this is ok and I'll pull it in. ;) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
* Re: Cleancache support in XFS 2013-05-01 12:39 James Dingwall 2013-05-01 16:20 ` Ben Myers @ 2013-05-13 8:59 ` James Dingwall 1 sibling, 0 replies; 22+ messages in thread From: James Dingwall @ 2013-05-13 8:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: xfs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2058 bytes --] James Dingwall wrote: > --- xfs_super.c 2013-04-29 10:28:22.000000000 +0100 > +++ xfs_super.cleancache.c 2013-05-01 13:22:44.367763564 +0100 > @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ > #include <linux/kthread.h> > #include <linux/freezer.h> > #include <linux/parser.h> > +#include <linux/cleancache.h> > > static const struct super_operations xfs_super_operations; > static kmem_zone_t *xfs_ioend_zone; > @@ -1489,6 +1490,8 @@ > goto out_unmount; > } > > + cleancache_init_fs(sb); > + > return 0; > > out_filestream_unmount: I have tested this patch with xfstests (dd3b5268312e0518ae695e8ee2a618f13805c425) and the output is attached. I had four reported failures with and without, one seems due to my locale settings but I don't know what to make of the others. These were the commands that I ran to prepare my system and execute the tests. If it would be worth performing more runs or using a different group of tests please suggest what it would be worth doing. I have also published the patch in git at: https://github.com/JKDingwall/linux.git xfs-enable-cleancache Thanks, James # mkfs -t xfs /dev/xvdc1 meta-data=/dev/xvdc1 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=1048512 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=4194048, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 # mkdir /tmp/test # mkdir /tmp/scratch # TEST_DEV="/dev/xvdc1" ; export TEST_DEV # TEST_DIR="/tmp/test" ; export TEST_DIR # SCRATCH_DEV="/dev/xvdd1" ; export SCRATCH_DEV # SCRATCH_MNT="/tmp/scratch" ; export SCRATCH_MNT # mount /dev/xvdc1 /tmp/test # ./check -xfs -g rw # run 1 - 3.9.0 with cleancache patch # ./check -xfs -g rw # run 3 - 3.9.1 no patch [-- Attachment #2: xfstests.1.out.gz --] [-- Type: application/gzip, Size: 1777 bytes --] [-- Attachment #3: xfstests.3.out.gz --] [-- Type: application/gzip, Size: 1887 bytes --] [-- Attachment #4: Type: text/plain, Size: 121 bytes --] _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 22+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2013-11-26 16:35 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 22+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2012-04-30 17:31 Cleancache support in XFS Alexey Vlasov 2012-04-30 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig 2012-05-02 8:02 ` Alexey Vlasov 2012-05-05 23:40 ` Dave Chinner -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2013-05-01 12:39 James Dingwall 2013-05-01 16:20 ` Ben Myers 2013-05-01 22:30 ` Dave Chinner 2013-05-02 8:24 ` James Dingwall 2013-05-22 19:28 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-05-24 7:30 ` James Dingwall 2013-06-07 17:08 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-07-19 7:18 ` James Dingwall 2013-07-22 15:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-07-23 7:23 ` James Dingwall 2013-07-23 8:27 ` Dave Chinner 2013-07-23 8:53 ` James Dingwall 2013-11-21 13:35 ` James Dingwall 2013-11-21 16:07 ` Ben Myers 2013-11-21 22:12 ` Dave Chinner 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-11-26 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 2013-05-13 8:59 ` James Dingwall
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