kernel.git/fs/gfs2/sys.c, branch linux-2.6.28.y

GFS2: high time to take some time over atime

2008-09-18T12:53:59Z

Until now, we've used the same scheme as GFS1 for atime. This has failed since atime is a per vfsmnt flag, not a per fs flag and as such the "noatime" flag was not getting passed down to the filesystems. This patch removes all the "special casing" around atime updates and we simply use the VFS's atime code. The net result is that GFS2 will now support all the same atime related mount options of any other filesystem on a per-vfsmnt basis. We do lose the "lazy atime" updates, but we gain "relatime". We could add lazy atime to the VFS at a later date, if there is a requirement for that variant still - I suspect relatime will be enough. Also we lose about 100 lines of code after this patch has been applied, and I have a suspicion that it will speed things up a bit, even when atime is "on". So it seems like a nice clean up as well. From a user perspective, everything stays the same except the loss of the per-fs atime quantum tweekable (ought to be per-vfsmnt at the very least, and to be honest I don't think anybody ever used it) and that a number of options which were ignored before now work correctly. Please let me know if you've got any comments. I'm pushing this out early so that you can all see what my plans are. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove support for unused and pointless flag

2008-07-10T15:09:29Z

The ability to mark files for direct i/o access when opened normally is both unused and pointless, so this patch removes support for that feature. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove remote lock dropping code

2008-06-27T08:39:44Z

There are several reasons why this is undesirable: 1. It never happens during normal operation anyway 2. If it does happen it causes performance to be very, very poor 3. It isn't likely to solve the original problem (memory shortage on remote DLM node) it was supposed to solve 4. It uses a bunch of arbitrary constants which are unlikely to be correct for any particular situation and for which the tuning seems to be a black art. 5. In an N node cluster, only 1/N of the dropped locked will actually contribute to solving the problem on average. So all in all we are better off without it. This also makes merging the lock_dlm module into GFS2 a bit easier. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove unused counters

2008-03-31T09:40:34Z

This is kind of trivial in the greater scheme of things, but this removes three counters that AFAICT are never used. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove lm.[ch] and distribute content

2008-03-31T09:40:26Z

The functions in lm.c were just wrappers which were mostly only used in one other file. By moving the functions to the files where they are being used, they can be marked static and also this will usually result in them being inlined since they are often only used from one point in the code. A couple of really trivial functions have been inlined by hand into the function which called them as it makes the code clearer to do that. We also gain from one fewer function call in the glock lock and unlock paths. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw

2008-01-25T16:39:18Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (56 commits) [GFS2] Allow journal recovery on read-only mount [GFS2] Lockup on error [GFS2] Fix page_mkwrite truncation race path [GFS2] Fix typo [GFS2] Fix write alloc required shortcut calculation [GFS2] gfs2_alloc_required performance [GFS2] Remove unneeded i_spin [GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of line [GFS2] Fix assert in log code [GFS2] Fix problems relating to execution of files on GFS2 [GFS2] Initialize extent_list earlier [GFS2] Allow page migration for writeback and ordered pages [GFS2] Remove unused variable [GFS2] Fix log block mapper [GFS2] Minor correction [GFS2] Eliminate the no longer needed sd_statfs_mutex [GFS2] Incremental patch to fix compiler warning [GFS2] Function meta_read optimization [GFS2] Only fetch the dinode once in block_map [GFS2] Reorganize function gfs2_glmutex_lock ...

[GFS2] Don't periodically update the jindex

2008-01-25T08:07:59Z

We only care about the content of the jindex in two cases, one is when we mount the fs and the other is when we need to recover another journal. In both cases we have to update the jindex anyway, so there is no point in updating it periodically between times, so this removes it to simplify gfs2_logd. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Given device ID rather than s_id in "id" sysfs file

2008-01-25T08:07:47Z

This patch changes the /sys/fs/gfs2//id file to give the device id "major:minor" rather than the s_id. That enables gfs2_tool to match devices properly (by id, not name) when locating the tuning files. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Remove "reclaim limit"

2008-01-25T08:07:37Z

This call to reclaim glocks is not needed, and in particular we don't want it in the fast path for locking glocks. The limit was entirely arbitrary anyway and we can't expect users to adjust things like this, the remaining code will do the right thing on its own. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

Kobject: convert fs/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()

2008-01-25T04:40:40Z

There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman