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Dave Chinner
2451337dd0 xfs: global error sign conversion
Convert all the errors the core XFs code to negative error signs
like the rest of the kernel and remove all the sign conversion we
do in the interface layers.

Errors for conversion (and comparison) found via searches like:

$ git grep " E" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return E" fs/xfs
$ git grep " E[A-Z].*;$" fs/xfs

Negation points found via searches like:

$ git grep "= -[a-z,A-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep "return -[a-z,A-D,F-Z]" fs/xfs
$ git grep " -[a-z].*;" fs/xfs

[ with some bits I missed from Brian Foster ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-06-25 14:58:08 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
b94acd4786 xfs: add filestream allocator tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-04-23 07:11:52 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
3b8d90766a xfs: remove xfs_filestream_associate
There is no good reason to create a filestream when a directory entry
is created.  Delay it until the first allocation happens to simply
the code and reduce the amount of mru cache lookups we do.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-04-23 07:11:52 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
1919adda07 xfs: don't create a slab cache for filestream items
We only have very few of these around, and allocation isn't that
much of a hot path.  Remove the slab cache to simplify the code,
and to not waste any resources for the usual case of not having
any inodes that use the filestream allocator.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-04-23 07:11:51 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
2cd2ef6a30 xfs: rewrite the filestream allocator using the dentry cache
In Linux we will always be able to find a parent inode for file that are
undergoing I/O.  Use this to simply the file stream allocator by only
keeping track of parent inodes.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2014-04-23 07:11:51 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
f37211c336 xfs: remove XFS_IFILESTREAM
We never test the flag except in xfs_inode_is_filestream, but that
function already tests the on-disk flag or filesystem wide flags,
and is used to decide if we want to set XFS_IFILESTREAM in the
first place.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-04-23 07:11:51 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
22328d712d xfs: embedd mru_elem into parent structure
There is no need to do a separate allocation for each mru element, just
embedd the structure into the parent one in the user.  Besides saving
a memory allocation and the infrastructure required for it this also
simplifies the API.

While we do major surgery on xfs_mru_cache.c also de-typedef it and
make struct mru_cache private to the implementation file.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2014-04-23 07:11:51 +10:00
Dave Chinner
a4fbe6ab1e xfs: decouple inode and bmap btree header files
Currently the xfs_inode.h header has a dependency on the definition
of the BMAP btree records as the inode fork includes an array of
xfs_bmbt_rec_host_t objects in it's definition.

Move all the btree format definitions from xfs_btree.h,
xfs_bmap_btree.h, xfs_alloc_btree.h and xfs_ialloc_btree.h to
xfs_format.h to continue the process of centralising the on-disk
format definitions. With this done, the xfs inode definitions are no
longer dependent on btree header files.

The enables a massive culling of unnecessary includes, with close to
200 #include directives removed from the XFS kernel code base.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-10-23 16:28:49 -05:00
Dave Chinner
239880ef64 xfs: decouple log and transaction headers
xfs_trans.h has a dependency on xfs_log.h for a couple of
structures. Most code that does transactions doesn't need to know
anything about the log, but this dependency means that they have to
include xfs_log.h. Decouple the xfs_trans.h and xfs_log.h header
files and clean up the includes to be in dependency order.

In doing this, remove the direct include of xfs_trans_reserve.h from
xfs_trans.h so that we remove the dependency between xfs_trans.h and
xfs_mount.h. Hence the xfs_trans.h include can be moved to the
indicate the actual dependencies other header files have on it.

Note that these are kernel only header files, so this does not
translate to any userspace changes at all.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-10-23 16:17:44 -05:00
Dave Chinner
e546cb79ef xfs: consolidate xfs_utils.c
There are a few small helper functions in xfs_util, all related to
xfs_inode modifications. Move them all to xfs_inode.c so all
xfs_inode operations are consiolidated in the one place.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-08-12 16:55:17 -05:00
Dave Chinner
6898811459 xfs: create xfs_bmap_util.[ch]
There is a bunch of code in xfs_bmap.c that is kernel specific and
not shared with userspace. To minimise the difference between the
kernel and userspace code, shift this unshared code to
xfs_bmap_util.c, and the declarations to xfs_bmap_util.h.

The biggest issue here is xfs_bmap_finish() - userspace has it's own
definition of this function, and so we need to move it out of
xfs_bmap.[ch]. This means several other files need to include
xfs_bmap_util.h as well.

It also introduces and interesting dance for the stack switching
code in xfs_bmapi_allocate(). The stack switching/workqueue code is
actually moved to xfs_bmap_util.c, so that userspace can simply use
a #define in a header file to connect the dots without needing to
know about the stack switch code at all.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-08-12 16:45:17 -05:00
Dave Chinner
69432832fd xfs: split out inode log item format definition
The log item format definitions are shared with userspace. Split
them out of header files that contain kernel only defintions to make
it simple to shared them.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
2013-08-12 16:05:19 -05:00
Dave Chinner
3a75667e90 xfs: rename allocation range fields in struct xfs_bmalloca
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:06 -05:00
Dave Chinner
0937e0fd8b xfs: move firstblock and bmap freelist cursor into bmalloca structure
Rather than passing the firstblock and freelist structure around,
embed it into the bmalloca structure and remove it from the function
parameters.

This also enables the minleft parameter to be set only once in
xfs_bmapi_write(), and the freelist cursor directly queried in
xfs_bmapi_allocate to clear it when the lowspace algorithm is
activated.
    
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 21:15:05 -05:00
Al Viro
03209378b4 xfs: fix misspelled S_IS...()
mode_t is not a bitmap...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-26 15:05:30 -04:00
Al Viro
abbede1b3a xfs: get rid of open-coded S_ISREG(), etc.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-07-26 15:05:16 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
785ce41805 xfs: tell lockdep about parent iolock usage in filestreams
The filestreams code may take the iolock on the parent inode while
holding it on a child.  This is the only place in XFS where we take
both the child and parent iolock, so just telling lockdep about it
is enough.  The lock flag required for that was already added as
part of the ilock lockdep annotations and unused so far.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-11-10 12:00:48 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
0664ce8d0f xfs: clean up filestreams helpers
Move xfs_filestream_peek_ag, xxfs_filestream_get_ag and xfs_filestream_put_ag
from xfs_filestream.h to xfs_filestream.c where it's only callers are, and
remove the inline marker while we're at it to let the compiler decide on the
inlining.  Also don't return a value from xfs_filestream_put_ag because
we don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-26 13:16:51 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
3400777ff0 xfs: remove unneeded #include statements
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2010-07-26 13:16:33 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig
288699feca xfs: drop dmapi hooks
Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks
bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem.

This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead.  If we'll ever get HSM
support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner
in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this
is much help for future work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
2010-07-26 13:16:33 -05:00
Dave Chinner
b657fc82a3 xfs: Kill filestreams cache flush
The filestreams cache flush is not needed in the sync code as it
does not affect data writeback, and it is now not used by the growfs
code, either, so kill it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-01-15 15:34:22 -06:00
Dave Chinner
1c1c6ebcf5 xfs: Replace per-ag array with a radix tree
The use of an array for the per-ag structures requires reallocation
of the array when growing the filesystem. This requires locking
access to the array to avoid use after free situations, and the
locking is difficult to get right. To avoid needing to reallocate an
array, change the per-ag structures to an allocated object per ag
and index them using a tree structure.

The AGs are always densely indexed (hence the use of an array), but
the number supported is 2^32 and lookups tend to be random and hence
indexing needs to scale. A simple choice is a radix tree - it works
well with this sort of index.  This change also removes another
large contiguous allocation from the mount/growfs path in XFS.

The growing process now needs to change to only initialise the new
AGs required for the extra space, and as such only needs to
exclusively lock the tree for inserts. The rest of the code only
needs to lock the tree while doing lookups, and hence this will
remove all the deadlocks that currently occur on the m_perag_lock as
it is now an innermost lock. The lock is also changed to a spinlock
from a read/write lock as the hold time is now extremely short.

To complete the picture, the per-ag structures will need to be
reference counted to ensure that we don't free/modify them while
they are still in use.  This will be done in subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-01-15 15:33:52 -06:00
Dave Chinner
4196ac08c0 xfs: Convert filestreams code to use per-ag get/put routines
Use xfs_perag_get() and xfs_perag_put() in the filestreams code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2010-01-15 15:33:22 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
0b1b213fcf xfs: event tracing support
Convert the old xfs tracing support that could only be used with the
out of tree kdb and xfsidbg patches to use the generic event tracer.

To use it make sure CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING is enabled and then enable
all xfs trace channels by:

   echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xfs/enable

or alternatively enable single events by just doing the same in one
event subdirectory, e.g.

   echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/xfs/xfs_ihold/enable

or set more complex filters, etc. In Documentation/trace/events.txt
all this is desctribed in more detail.  To reads the events do a

   cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace

Compared to the last posting this patch converts the tracing mostly to
the one tracepoint per callsite model that other users of the new
tracing facility also employ.  This allows a very fine-grained control
of the tracing, a cleaner output of the traces and also enables the
perf tool to use each tracepoint as a virtual performance counter,
     allowing us to e.g. count how often certain workloads git various
     spots in XFS.  Take a look at

    http://lwn.net/Articles/346470/

for some examples.

Also the btree tracing isn't included at all yet, as it will require
additional core tracing features not in mainline yet, I plan to
deliver it later.

And the really nice thing about this patch is that it actually removes
many lines of code while adding this nice functionality:

 fs/xfs/Makefile                |    8
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c     |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c    |   52 -
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.h    |    2
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c     |  117 +--
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.h     |   33
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_fs_subr.c |    3
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c   |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c    |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_linux.h   |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c     |   87 --
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h     |   45 -
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c   |  104 ---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.h   |    7
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c    |    1
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.c   |   75 ++
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_trace.h   | 1369 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h   |    4
 fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.c       |  110 ---
 fs/xfs/quota/xfs_dquot.h       |   21
 fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm.c          |   40 -
 fs/xfs/quota/xfs_qm_syscalls.c |    4
 fs/xfs/support/ktrace.c        |  323 ---------
 fs/xfs/support/ktrace.h        |   85 --
 fs/xfs/xfs.h                   |   16
 fs/xfs/xfs_ag.h                |   14
 fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.c             |  230 +-----
 fs/xfs/xfs_alloc.h             |   27
 fs/xfs/xfs_alloc_btree.c       |    1
 fs/xfs/xfs_attr.c              |  107 ---
 fs/xfs/xfs_attr.h              |   10
 fs/xfs/xfs_attr_leaf.c         |   14
 fs/xfs/xfs_attr_sf.h           |   40 -
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c              |  507 +++------------
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.h              |   49 -
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_btree.c        |    6
 fs/xfs/xfs_btree.c             |    5
 fs/xfs/xfs_btree_trace.h       |   17
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c          |   87 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.h          |   20
 fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c          |    3
 fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.h          |    7
 fs/xfs/xfs_dfrag.c             |    2
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2.c              |    8
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_block.c        |   20
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_leaf.c         |   21
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_node.c         |   27
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_sf.c           |   26
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_trace.c        |  216 ------
 fs/xfs/xfs_dir2_trace.h        |   72 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c        |    8
 fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c             |    2
 fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c              |  111 ---
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c             |   67 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h             |   76 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c        |    5
 fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c             |   85 --
 fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.h             |    8
 fs/xfs/xfs_log.c               |  181 +----
 fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h          |   20
 fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c       |    1
 fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c             |    2
 fs/xfs/xfs_quota.h             |    8
 fs/xfs/xfs_rename.c            |    1
 fs/xfs/xfs_rtalloc.c           |    1
 fs/xfs/xfs_rw.c                |    3
 fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h             |   47 +
 fs/xfs/xfs_trans_buf.c         |   62 -
 fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c          |    8
 70 files changed, 2151 insertions(+), 2592 deletions(-)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2009-12-14 23:08:16 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
075fe10286 xfs: split xfs_sync_inodes
xfs_sync_inodes is used to write back either file data or inode metadata.
In general we always do these separately, except for one fishy case in
xfs_fs_put_super that does both.  So separate xfs_sync_inodes into
separate xfs_sync_data and xfs_sync_attr functions.  In xfs_fs_put_super
we first call the data sync and then the attr sync as that was the previous
order.  The moved log force in that path doesn't make a difference because
we will force the log again as part of the real unmount process.

The filesystem readonly checks are not performed by the new function but
instead moved into the callers, given that most callers alredy have it
further up in the stack.  Also add debug checks that we do not pass in
incorrect flags in the new xfs_sync_data and xfs_sync_attr function and
fix the one place that did pass in a wrong flag.

Also remove a comment mentioning xfs_sync_inodes that has been incorrect
for a while because we always take either the iolock or ilock in the
sync path these days.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
2009-06-08 15:35:48 +02:00
Dave Chinner
6cc87645e2 xfs: factor out code to find the longest free extent in the AG
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-03-16 08:29:46 +01:00
Lachlan McIlroy
5695ef46ef [XFS] Use KM_NOFS for debug trace buffers
Use KM_NOFS to prevent recursion back into the filesystem which can cause
deadlocks.

In the case of xfs_iread() we hold the lock on the inode cluster buffer
while allocating memory for the trace buffers. If we recurse back into XFS
to flush data that may require a transaction to allocate extents which
needs log space. This can deadlock with the xfsaild thread which can't
push the tail of the log because it is trying to get the inode cluster
buffer lock.

SGI-PV: 981498

SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31838a

Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
2008-08-13 16:51:57 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
9f8868ffb3 [XFS] streamline init/exit path
Currently the xfs module init/exit code is a mess. It's farmed out over a
lot of function with very little error checking. This patch makes sure we
propagate all initialization failures properly and clean up after them.
Various runtime initializations are replaced with compile-time
initializations where possible to make this easier. The exit path is
similarly consolidated.

There's now split out function to create/destroy the kmem zones and
alloc/free the trace buffers. I've also changed the ktrace allocations to
KM_MAYFAIL and handled errors resulting from that.

And yes, we really should replace the XFS_*_TRACE ifdefs with a single
XFS_TRACE..

SGI-PV: 976035

SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31354a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-07-28 16:59:25 +10:00
Harvey Harrison
34a622b2e1 [XFS] replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

SGI-PV: 976035
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30775a

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-04-18 11:51:26 +10:00
David Chinner
a8272ce0c1 [XFS] Fix up sparse warnings.
These are mostly locking annotations, marking things static, casts where
needed and declaring stuff in header files.

SGI-PV: 971186
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30002a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2008-02-07 18:14:38 +11:00
Eric Sandeen
bcc7b445ef [XFS] fix filestreams on 32-bit boxes
xfs_filestream_mount() sets up an mru cache with:
  err = xfs_mru_cache_create(&mp->m_filestream, lifetime, grp_count,
  (xfs_mru_cache_free_func_t)xfs_fstrm_free_func);
but that cast is causing problems...
  typedef void (*xfs_mru_cache_free_func_t)(unsigned long, void*);
but:
  void xfs_fstrm_free_func( xfs_ino_t ino, fstrm_item_t *item)
so on a 32-bit box, it's casting (32, 32) args into (64, 32) and I assume
it's getting garbage for *item, which subsequently causes an explosion.
With this change the filestreams xfsqa tests don't oops on my 32-bit box.

SGI-PV: 967795
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29510a

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-09-20 19:40:19 +10:00
David Chinner
65de556756 [XFS] On-demand reaping of the MRU cache
Instead of running the mru cache reaper all the time based on a timeout,
we should only run it when the cache has active objects. This allows CPUs
to sleep when there is no activity rather than be woken repeatedly just to
check if there is anything to do.

SGI-PV: 968554
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29305a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-09-17 16:42:02 +10:00
David Chinner
2a82b8be8a [XFS] Concurrent Multi-File Data Streams
In media spaces, video is often stored in a frame-per-file format. When
dealing with uncompressed realtime HD video streams in this format, it is
crucial that files do not get fragmented and that multiple files a placed
contiguously on disk.

When multiple streams are being ingested and played out at the same time,
it is critical that the filesystem does not cross the streams and
interleave them together as this creates seek and readahead cache miss
latency and prevents both ingest and playout from meeting frame rate
targets.

This patch set creates a "stream of files" concept into the allocator to
place all the data from a single stream contiguously on disk so that RAID
array readahead can be used effectively. Each additional stream gets
placed in different allocation groups within the filesystem, thereby
ensuring that we don't cross any streams. When an AG fills up, we select a
new AG for the stream that is not in use.

The core of the functionality is the stream tracking - each inode that we
create in a directory needs to be associated with the directories' stream.
Hence every time we create a file, we look up the directories' stream
object and associate the new file with that object.

Once we have a stream object for a file, we use the AG that the stream
object point to for allocations. If we can't allocate in that AG (e.g. it
is full) we move the entire stream to another AG. Other inodes in the same
stream are moved to the new AG on their next allocation (i.e. lazy
update).

Stream objects are kept in a cache and hold a reference on the inode.
Hence the inode cannot be reclaimed while there is an outstanding stream
reference. This means that on unlink we need to remove the stream
association and we also need to flush all the associations on certain
events that want to reclaim all unreferenced inodes (e.g. filesystem
freeze).

SGI-PV: 964469
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29096a

Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Naujok <bnaujok@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Donald Douwsma <donaldd@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com>
2007-07-14 15:40:53 +10:00