xfs: implement optimized fdatasync

Allow us to track the difference between timestamp and size updates
by using mark_inode_dirty from the I/O completion code, and checking
the VFS inode flags in xfs_file_fsync.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Hellwig 2010-02-15 09:44:49 +00:00 committed by Alex Elder
parent fd3200bef7
commit 66d834ea60
4 changed files with 25 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ xfs_setfilesize(
isize = xfs_ioend_new_eof(ioend);
if (isize) {
ip->i_d.di_size = isize;
xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(ip);
xfs_mark_inode_dirty(ip);
}
xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ xfs_submit_ioend_bio(
* but don't update the inode size until I/O completion.
*/
if (xfs_ioend_new_eof(ioend))
xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(XFS_I(ioend->io_inode));
xfs_mark_inode_dirty(XFS_I(ioend->io_inode));
submit_bio(wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ?
WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE, bio);

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@ -97,16 +97,6 @@ xfs_iozero(
return (-status);
}
/*
* We ignore the datasync flag here because a datasync is effectively
* identical to an fsync. That is, datasync implies that we need to write
* only the metadata needed to be able to access the data that is written
* if we crash after the call completes. Hence if we are writing beyond
* EOF we have to log the inode size change as well, which makes it a
* full fsync. If we don't write beyond EOF, the inode core will be
* clean in memory and so we don't need to log the inode, just like
* fsync.
*/
STATIC int
xfs_file_fsync(
struct file *file,
@ -139,7 +129,18 @@ xfs_file_fsync(
*/
xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
if (ip->i_update_core) {
/*
* First check if the VFS inode is marked dirty. All the dirtying
* of non-transactional updates no goes through mark_inode_dirty*,
* which allows us to distinguish beteeen pure timestamp updates
* and i_size updates which need to be caught for fdatasync.
* After that also theck for the dirty state in the XFS inode, which
* might gets cleared when the inode gets written out via the AIL
* or xfs_iflush_cluster.
*/
if (((dentry->d_inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) ||
((dentry->d_inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_SYNC) && !datasync)) &&
ip->i_update_core) {
/*
* Kick off a transaction to log the inode core to get the
* updates. The sync transaction will also force the log.

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@ -91,6 +91,16 @@ xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(
mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
}
void
xfs_mark_inode_dirty(
xfs_inode_t *ip)
{
struct inode *inode = VFS_I(ip);
if (!(inode->i_state & (I_WILL_FREE|I_FREEING|I_CLEAR)))
mark_inode_dirty(inode);
}
/*
* Change the requested timestamp in the given inode.
* We don't lock across timestamp updates, and we don't log them but

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@ -480,6 +480,7 @@ void xfs_lock_inodes(xfs_inode_t **, int, uint);
void xfs_lock_two_inodes(xfs_inode_t *, xfs_inode_t *, uint);
void xfs_synchronize_times(xfs_inode_t *);
void xfs_mark_inode_dirty(xfs_inode_t *);
void xfs_mark_inode_dirty_sync(xfs_inode_t *);
#define IHOLD(ip) \