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2010-10-26writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion referencesWu Fengguang
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef (writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the ext4 tracing interface. The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO. The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check. We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior: that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which is unfair in terms of LRU age. Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-29NFS: don't use FLUSH_SYNC on WB_SYNC_NONE COMMIT calls (try #2)Jeff Layton
WB_SYNC_NONE is supposed to mean "don't wait on anything". That should also include not waiting for COMMIT calls to complete. WB_SYNC_NONE is also implied when wbc->nonblocking and wbc->for_background are set, so we can replace those checks in nfs_commit_unstable_pages with a check for WB_SYNC_NONE. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-09-24NFSv4.1: keep seq_res.sr_slot as pointer rather than an indexBenny Halevy
Having to explicitly initialize sr_slotid to NFS4_MAX_SLOT_TABLE resulted in numerous bugs. Keeping the current slot as a pointer to the slot table is more straight forward and robust as it's implicitly set up to NULL wherever the seq_res member is initialized to zeroes. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-08-07Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6 * 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (42 commits) NFS: NFSv4.1 is no longer a "developer only" feature NFS: NFS_V4 is no longer an EXPERIMENTAL feature NFS: Fix /proc/mount for legacy binary interface NFS: Fix the locking in nfs4_callback_getattr SUNRPC: Defer deleting the security context until gss_do_free_ctx() SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt SUNRPC: Reduce asynchronous RPC task stack usage SUNRPC: Move the bound cred to struct rpc_rqst SUNRPC: Clean up of rpc_bindcred() SUNRPC: Move remaining RPC client related task initialisation into clnt.c SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task SUNRPC: Make the credential cache hashtable size configurable SUNRPC: Store the hashtable size in struct rpc_cred_cache NFS: Ensure the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically NFS: Fix the NFS users of rpc_restart_call() SUNRPC: The function rpc_restart_call() should return success/failure NFSv4: Get rid of the bogus RPC_ASSASSINATED(task) checks NFSv4: Clean up the process of renewing the NFSv4 lease NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY on SEQUENCE correctly NFS: nfs_rename() should not have to flush out writebacks ...
2010-08-01NFS: Fix a typo in include/linux/nfs_fs.hTrond Myklebust
nfs_commit_inode() needs to be defined irrespectively of whether or not we are supporting NFSv3 and NFSv4. Allow the compiler to optimise away code in the NFSv2-only case by converting it into an inlined stub function. Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-30NFS: Ensure that writepage respects the nonblock flagTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-07-30NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_pageTrond Myklebust
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056 If other processes are blocked waiting for kswapd to free up some memory so that they can make progress, then we cannot allow kswapd to block on those processes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-30NFSv4: Ensure that we track the NFSv4 lock state in read/write requests.Trond Myklebust
This patch fixes bugzilla entry 14501: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14501 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-06-22NFSv4.1: Make nfs4_setup_sequence take a nfs_server argumentTrond Myklebust
In anticipation of the day when we have per-filesystem sessions, and also in order to allow the session to change in the event of a filesystem migration event. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-26NFS: Fix another nfs_wb_page() deadlockTrond Myklebust
J.R. Okajima reports that the call to sync_inode() in nfs_wb_page() can deadlock with other writeback flush calls. It boils down to the fact that we cannot ever call writeback_single_inode() while holding a page lock (even if we do set nr_to_write to zero) since another process may already be waiting in the call to do_writepages(), and so will deny us the I_SYNC lock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-05-26NFS: Ensure that we mark the inode as dirty if we exit early from commitTrond Myklebust
If we exit from nfs_commit_inode() without ensuring that the COMMIT rpc call has been completed, we must re-mark the inode as dirty. Otherwise, future calls to sync_inode() with the WB_SYNC_ALL flag set will fail to ensure that the data is on the disk. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-27NFS: Ensure that nfs_wb_page() waits for Pg_writeback to clearTrond Myklebust
Neil Brown reports that he is seeing the BUG_ON(ret == 0) trigger in nfs_page_async_flush. According to the trace in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=599628 the problem appears to be due to nfs_wb_page() not waiting for the PG_writeback flag to clear. There is a ditto problem in nfs_wb_page_cancel() Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-22NFS: Fix an unstable write data integrity raceTrond Myklebust
Commit 2c61be0a9478258f77b66208a0c4b1f5f8161c3c (NFS: Ensure that the WRITE and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptible) exposed a race on file close. In order to ensure correct close-to-open behaviour, we want to wait for all outstanding background commit operations to complete. This patch adds an inode flag that indicates if a commit operation is under way, and provides a mechanism to allow ->write_inode() to wait for its completion if this is a data integrity flush. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09NFS: Ensure that the WRITE and COMMIT RPC calls are always uninterruptibleTrond Myklebust
We always want to ensure that WRITE and COMMIT completes, whether or not the user presses ^C. Do this by making the call asynchronous, and allowing the user to do an interruptible wait for rpc_task completion. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09NFS: Fix a race with the new commit codeTrond Myklebust
This patch fixes a race which occurs due to the fact that we release the PG_writeback flag while still holding the nfs_page locked. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-04-09NFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() calls write_inode() when syncingTrond Myklebust
Since writeback_single_inode() checks the inode->i_state flags _before_ it flushes out the data, we need to ensure that the I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag is already set. Otherwise we risk not seeing a call to write_inode(), which again means that we break fsync() et al... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Replace __nfs_write_mapping with sync_inode()Trond Myklebust
Now that we have correct COMMIT semantics in writeback_single_inode, we can reduce and simplify nfs_wb_all(). Also replace nfs_wb_nocommit() with a call to filemap_write_and_wait(), which doesn't need to hold the inode->i_mutex. With that done, we can eliminate nfs_write_mapping() altogether. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Simplify nfs_wb_page_cancel()Trond Myklebust
In all cases we should be able to just remove the request and call cancel_dirty_page(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Ensure inode is always marked I_DIRTY_DATASYNC, if it has unstable pagesTrond Myklebust
Since nfs_scan_list() doesn't wait for locked pages, we have a race in which it is possible to end up with an inode that needs to send a COMMIT, but which does not have the I_DIRTY_DATASYNC flag set. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Run COMMIT as an asynchronous RPC call when wbc->for_background is setTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Reduce the number of unnecessary COMMIT callsTrond Myklebust
If the caller is doing a non-blocking flush, and there are still writebacks pending on the wire, we can usually defer the COMMIT call until those writes are done. Also ensure that we honour the wbc->nonblocking flag. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Add a count of the number of unstable writes carried by an inodeTrond Myklebust
In order to know when we should do opportunistic commits of the unstable writes, when the VM is doing a background flush, we add a field to count the number of unstable writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-03-05NFS: Cleanup - move nfs_write_inode() into fs/nfs/write.cTrond Myklebust
The sole purpose of nfs_write_inode is to commit unstable writes, so move it into fs/nfs/write.c, and make nfs_commit_inode static. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-02-09NFS: Remove a redundant check for PageFsCache in nfs_migrate_page()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2010-01-26NFS: Make nfs_commitdata_release staticH Hartley Sweeten
The symbol nfs_commitdata_release is only used locally in this file. Make it static to prevent the following sparse warning: warning: symbol 'nfs_commitdata_release' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2010-01-26NFS: Fix a reference leak in nfs_wb_cancel_page()Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2009-12-13Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.33'Trond Myklebust
2009-12-10NFS: Fix nfs_migrate_page()Trond Myklebust
The call to migrate_page() will cause the page->private field to be cleared. Also fix up the locking around the page->private transfer, so that we ensure that calls to nfs_page_find_request() don't end up racing. Finally, fix up a double free bug: nfs_unlock_request() already calls nfs_release_request() for us... Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-10vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semanticsChristoph Hellwig
While Linux provided an O_SYNC flag basically since day 1, it took until Linux 2.4.0-test12pre2 to actually get it implemented for filesystems, since that day we had generic_osync_around with only minor changes and the great "For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give O_DSYNC" comment. This patch intends to actually give us real O_SYNC semantics in addition to the O_DSYNC semantics. After Jan's O_SYNC patches which are required before this patch it's actually surprisingly simple, we just need to figure out when to set the datasync flag to vfs_fsync_range and when not. This patch renames the existing O_SYNC flag to O_DSYNC while keeping it's numerical value to keep binary compatibility, and adds a new real O_SYNC flag. To guarantee backwards compatiblity it is defined as expanding to both the O_DSYNC and the new additional binary flag (__O_SYNC) to make sure we are backwards-compatible when compiled against the new headers. This also means that all places that don't care about the differences can just check O_DSYNC and get the right behaviour for O_SYNC, too - only places that actuall care need to check __O_SYNC in addition. Drivers and network filesystems have been updated in a fail safe way to always do the full sync magic if O_DSYNC is set. The few places setting O_SYNC for lower layers are kept that way for now to stay failsafe. We enforce that O_DSYNC is set when __O_SYNC is set early in the open path to make sure we always get these sane options. Note that parisc really screwed up their headers as they already define a O_DSYNC that has always been a no-op. We try to repair it by using it for the new O_DSYNC and redefinining O_SYNC to send both the traditional O_SYNC numerical value _and_ the O_DSYNC one. Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-12-07NFS: Fix up the declaration of nfs4_restart_rpc when NFSv4 not configuredTrond Myklebust
Also rename it: it is used in generic code, and so should not have a 'nfs4' prefix. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-05NFSv41: Clean up slot table managementTrond Myklebust
We no longer need to maintain a distinction between nfs41_sequence_done and nfs41_sequence_free_slot. This fixes a number of slot table leakages in the NFSv4.1 code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-04nfs41: call free slot from nfs4_restart_rpcAndy Adamson
nfs41_sequence_free_slot can be called multiple times on SEQUENCE operation errors. No reason to inline nfs4_restart_rpc Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@netapp.com> nfs_writeback_done and nfs_readpage_retry call nfs4_restart_rpc outside the error handler, and the slot is not freed prior to restarting in the rpc_prepare state during session reset. Fix this by moving the call to nfs41_sequence_free_slot from the error path of nfs41_sequence_done into nfs4_restart_rpc, and by removing the test for NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP. Always free slot and goto the rpc prepare state on async errors. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-12-03writeback: introduce wbc.for_backgroundWu Fengguang
It will lower the flush priority for NFS, and maybe more in future. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepagesJens Axboe
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-08-19Merge branch 'nfsv4_xdr_cleanups-for-2.6.32' into nfs-for-2.6.32Trond Myklebust
Conflicts: fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c
2009-08-12NFS: Fix an O_DIRECT Oops...Trond Myklebust
We can't call nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release() without first initialising and referencing args.context. Doing so inside nfs_direct_read_schedule_segment()/nfs_direct_write_schedule_segment() causes an Oops. We should rather be calling nfs_readdata_free()/nfs_writedata_free() in those cases. Looking at the O_DIRECT code, the "struct nfs_direct_req" is already referencing the nfs_open_context for us. Since the readdata and writedata structures carry a reference to that, we can simplify things by getting rid of the extra nfs_open_context references, so that we can replace all instances of nfs_readdata_release()/nfs_writedata_release(). Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10NFS: Add a ->migratepage() aop for NFSTrond Myklebust
Make NFS a bit more friendly to NUMA and memory hot removal... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-07-11Revert "fuse: Fix build error" as unnecessaryLinus Torvalds
This reverts commit 097041e576ee3a50d92dd643ee8ca65bf6a62e21. Trond had a better fix, which is the parent of this one ("Fix compile error due to congestion_wait() changes") Requested-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10fuse: Fix build errorLarry Finger
When building v2.6.31-rc2-344-g69ca06c, the following build errors are found due to missing includes: CC [M] fs/fuse/dev.o fs/fuse/dev.c: In function ‘request_end’: fs/fuse/dev.c:289: error: ‘BLK_RW_SYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function) ... fs/nfs/write.c: In function ‘nfs_set_page_writeback’: fs/nfs/write.c:207: error: ‘BLK_RW_ASYNC’ undeclared (first use in this function) Signed-off-by: Larry Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusionJens Axboe
Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-17nfs41: use rpc prepare call state for session resetAndy Adamson
[nfs41: change nfs4_restart_rpc argument] [nfs41: check for session not minorversion] [nfs41: trigger the state manager for session reset] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [always define nfs4_restart_rpc] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17nfs41 commit sequence setup done supportAndy Adamson
Separate commit calls from nfs41: sequence setup/done support Implement the commit rpc_call_prepare method for asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from respective rpc_call_validate_args methods. Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods. Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [pnfs: client data server write validate and release] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT.] Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done] [nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17nfs41 write sequence setup done supportAndy Adamson
Separate write calls from nfs41: sequence setup/done support Implement the write rpc_call_prepare method for asynchronuos nfs rpcs, call nfs41_setup_sequence from respective rpc_call_validate_args methods. Call nfs4_sequence_done from respective rpc_call_done methods. Note that we need to pass a pointer to the nfs_server in calls data for passing on to nfs4_sequence_done. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [pnfs: client data server write validate and release] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [move the nfs4_sequence_free_slot call in nfs_readpage_retry from] [nfs41: separate free slot from sequence done Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: Support sessions with O_DIRECT.] Signed-off-by: Dean Hildebrand <dhildeb@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> [nfs41: nfs4_sequence_free_slot use nfs_client for data server] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-06-17nfs41: set up seq_res.sr_slotidAndy Adamson
Initialize nfs4_sequence_res sr_slotid to NFS4_MAX_SLOT_TABLE. [was nfs41: sequence res use slotid] Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> [pulled definition of struct nfs4_sequence_res.sr_slotid to here] Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-19NFS: Fix up a mismerged patchTrond Myklebust
Move the definition of nfs_need_commit() into the #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V3 section as originally intended in the patch "NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommit" Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: Throttle page dirtying while we're flushing to diskTrond Myklebust
The following patch is a combination of a patch by myself and Peter Staubach. Trond: If we allow other processes to dirty pages while a process is doing a consistency sync to disk, we can end up never making progress. Peter: Attached is a patch which addresses a continuing problem with the NFS client generating out of order WRITE requests. While this is compliant with all of the current protocol specifications, there are servers in the market which can not handle out of order WRITE requests very well. Also, this may lead to sub-optimal block allocations in the underlying file system on the server. This may cause the read throughputs to be reduced when reading the file from the server. Peter: There has been a lot of work recently done to address out of order issues on a systemic level. However, the NFS client is still susceptible to the problem. Out of order WRITE requests can occur when pdflush is in the middle of writing out pages while the process dirtying the pages calls generic_file_buffered_write which calls generic_perform_write which calls balance_dirty_pages_rate_limited which ends up calling writeback_inodes which ends up calling back into the NFS client to writes out dirty pages for the same file that pdflush happens to be working with. Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> [modification by Trond to merge the two similar patches] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-11NFS: cleanup - remove struct nfs_inode->ncommitTrond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-07NFS: Don't use range_cyclic for data integrity syncsTrond Myklebust
It is more efficient to write linearly starting from the beginning of the file. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-07-15NFS: Remove BKL requirement from attribute updatesTrond Myklebust
The main problem is dealing with inode->i_size: we need to set the inode->i_lock on all attribute updates, and so vmtruncate won't cut it. Make an NFS-private version of vmtruncate that has the necessary locking semantics. The result should be that the following inode attribute updates are protected by inode->i_lock nfsi->cache_validity nfsi->read_cache_jiffies nfsi->attrtimeo nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp nfsi->change_attr nfsi->last_updated nfsi->cache_change_attribute nfsi->access_cache nfsi->access_cache_entry_lru nfsi->access_cache_inode_lru nfsi->acl_access nfsi->acl_default nfsi->nfs_page_tree nfsi->ncommit nfsi->npages nfsi->open_files nfsi->silly_list nfsi->acl nfsi->open_states inode->i_size inode->i_atime inode->i_mtime inode->i_ctime inode->i_nlink inode->i_uid inode->i_gid The following is protected by dir->i_mutex nfsi->cookieverf Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>