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authorRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>2009-04-06 19:01:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-07 08:31:17 -0700
commit047180f2d7bf95ff5699ca04da639a7556e23435 (patch)
tree28f66f0880426ffae01892df531e820064ff7f6f /fs
parent47420c799830d4676e544dbec56b2a7f787528f5 (diff)
nilfs2: insert explanations in gcinode file
The file gcinode.c gives buffer cache functions for on-disk blocks moved in garbage collection. Joern Engel has suggested inserting its explanations in the source file (Message-ID: <20080917144146.GD8750@logfs.org> and <20080917224953.GB14644@logfs.org>). This follows the comment. Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c21
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
index 001395266325..77615aabc7e2 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * gcinode.c - NILFS memory inode for GC
+ * gcinode.c - dummy inodes to buffer blocks for garbage collection
*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.
*
@@ -22,6 +22,25 @@
* Revised by Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>.
*
*/
+/*
+ * This file adds the cache of on-disk blocks to be moved in garbage
+ * collection. The disk blocks are held with dummy inodes (called
+ * gcinodes), and this file provides lookup function of the dummy
+ * inodes and their buffer read function.
+ *
+ * Since NILFS2 keeps up multiple checkpoints/snapshots accross GC, it
+ * has to treat blocks that belong to a same file but have different
+ * checkpoint numbers. To avoid interference among generations, dummy
+ * inodes are managed separatly from actual inodes, and their lookup
+ * function (nilfs_gc_iget) is designed to be specified with a
+ * checkpoint number argument as well as an inode number.
+ *
+ * Buffers and pages held by the dummy inodes will be released each
+ * time after they are copied to a new log. Dirty blocks made on the
+ * current generation and the blocks to be moved by GC never overlap
+ * because the dirty blocks make a new generation; they rather must be
+ * written individually.
+ */
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/mpage.h>