linux-toradex.git/fs/gfs2/dir.c, branch v3.6.5

GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations struct

2012-06-06T10:20:22+00:00

This patch moves the ancillary quota data structures into the
block reservations structure. This saves GFS2 some time and
effort in allocating and deallocating the qadata structure.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry

2012-05-11T02:54:35+00:00

This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
architectures.  Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
since that is the case we care most about.

The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
'struct qstr' with a static initializer.  This makes the problematic
cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

GFS2: Make sure rindex is uptodate before starting transactions

2012-04-05T09:20:10+00:00

This patch removes the call from gfs2_blk2rgrd to function
gfs2_rindex_update and replaces it with individual calls.
The former way turned out to be too problematic.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocations

2011-11-22T10:25:21+00:00

This patch separates the code pertaining to allocations into two
parts: quota-related information and block reservations.
This patch also moves all the block reservation structure allocations to
function gfs2_inplace_reserve to simplify the code, and moves
the frees to function gfs2_inplace_release.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: move toward a generic multi-block allocator

2011-11-21T10:04:09+00:00

This patch is a revision of the one I previously posted.
I tried to integrate all the suggestions Steve gave.
The purpose of the patch is to change function gfs2_alloc_block
(allocate either a dinode block or an extent of data blocks)
to a more generic gfs2_alloc_blocks function that can
allocate both a dinode _and_ an extent of data blocks in the
same call. This will ultimately help us create a multi-block
reservation scheme to reduce file fragmentation.

This patch moves more toward a generic multi-block allocator that
takes a pointer to the number of data blocks to allocate, plus whether
or not to allocate a dinode. In theory, it could be called to allocate
(1) a single dinode block, (2) a group of one or more data blocks, or
(3) a dinode plus several data blocks.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: combine gfs2_alloc_block and gfs2_alloc_di

2011-11-15T15:25:03+00:00

GFS2 functions gfs2_alloc_block and gfs2_alloc_di do basically
the same things, with a few exceptions. This patch combines
the two functions into a slightly more generic gfs2_alloc_block.
Having one centralized block allocation function will reduce
code redundancy and make it easier to implement multi-block
reservations to reduce file fragmentation in the future.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: f_ra is always valid in dir readahead function

2011-11-09T13:46:06+00:00

As a result, we don't need to test it each time.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Bob Peterson

GFS2: Add readahead to sequential directory traversal

2011-11-08T09:52:12+00:00

This patch adds read-ahead capability to GFS2's
directory hash table management.  It greatly improves
performance for some directory operations.  For example:
In one of my file systems that has 1000 directories, each
of which has 1000 files, time to execute a recursive
ls (time ls -fR /mnt/gfs2 > /dev/null) was reduced
from 2m2.814s on a stock kernel to 0m45.938s.

Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Use cached rgrp in gfs2_rlist_add()

2011-10-21T11:39:39+00:00

Each block which is deallocated, requires a call to gfs2_rlist_add()
and each of those calls was calling gfs2_blk2rgrpd() in order to
figure out which rgrp the block belonged in. This can be speeded up
by making use of the rgrp cached in the inode. We also reset this
cached rgrp in case the block has changed rgrp. This should provide
a big reduction in gfs2_blk2rgrpd() calls during deallocation.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse

GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fs

2011-10-21T11:39:33+00:00

Since we have ruled out supporting online filesystem shrink,
it is possible to make the resource group list append only
during the life of a super block. This gives several benefits:

Firstly, we only need to read new rindex elements as they are added
rather than needing to reread the whole rindex file each time one
element is added.

Secondly, the rindex glock can be held for much shorter periods of
time, and is completely removed from the fast path for allocations.
The lock is taken in shared mode only when updating the resource
groups when the first allocation occurs, and after a grow has
taken place.

Thirdly, this results in a reduction in code size, and everything
gets a lot simpler to understand in this area.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse