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2012-11-07GFS2: Add Orlov allocatorSteven Whitehouse
Just like ext3, this works on the root directory and any directory with the +T flag set. Also, just like ext3, any subdirectory created in one of the just mentioned cases will be allocated to a random resource group (GFS2 equivalent of a block group). If you are creating a set of directories, each of which will contain a job running on a different node, then by setting +T on the parent directory before creating the subdirectories, each will land up in a different resource group, and thus resource group contention between nodes will be kept to a minimum. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-09-24GFS2: Consolidate free block searching functionsSteven Whitehouse
With the recently added block reservation code, an additional function was added to search for free blocks. This had a restriction of only being able to search for aligned extents of free blocks. As a result the allocation patterns when reserving blocks were suboptimal when the existing allocation of blocks for an inode was not aligned to the same boundary. This patch resolves that problem by adding the ability for gfs2_rbm_find to search for extents of a particular minimum size. We can then use gfs2_rbm_find for both looking for reservations, and also looking for free blocks on an individual basis when we actually come to do the allocation later on. As a result we only need a single set of code to deal with both situations. The function gfs2_rbm_from_block() is moved up rgrp.c so that it occurs before all of its callers. Many thanks are due to Bob for helping track down the final issue in this patch. That fix to the rb_tree traversal and to not share block reservations from a dirctory to its children is included here. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
2012-09-24GFS2: Add structure to contain rgrp, bitmap, offset tupleSteven Whitehouse
This patch introduces a new structure, gfs2_rbm, which is a tuple of a resource group, a bitmap within the resource group and an offset within that bitmap. This is designed to make manipulating these sets of variables easier. There is also a new helper function which converts this representation back to a disk block address. In addition, the rbtree nodes which are used for the reservations were not being correctly initialised, which is now fixed. Also, the tracing was not passing through the inode where it should have been. That is mostly fixed aside from one corner case. This needs to be revisited since there can also be a NULL rgrp in some cases which results in the device being incorrect in the trace. This is intended to be the first step towards cleaning up some of the allocation code, and some further bug fixes. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-09-24GFS2: Remove rs_requested field from reservationsSteven Whitehouse
The rs_requested field is left over from the original allocation code, however this should have been a parameter passed to the various functions from gfs2_inplace_reserve() and not a member of the reservation structure as the value is not required after the initial allocation. This also helps simplify the code since we no longer need to set the rs_requested to zero. Also the gfs2_inplace_release() function can also be simplified since the reservation structure will always be defined when it is called, and the only remaining task is to unlock the rgrp if required. It can also now be called unconditionally too, resulting in a further simplification. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-07-19GFS2: Reduce file fragmentationBob Peterson
This patch reduces GFS2 file fragmentation by pre-reserving blocks. The resulting improved on disk layout greatly speeds up operations in cases which would have resulted in interlaced allocation of blocks previously. A typical example of this is 10 parallel dd processes, each writing to a file in a common dirctory. The implementation uses an rbtree of reservations attached to each resource group (and each inode). Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06GFS2: Fold quota data into the reservations structBob Peterson
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 <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-06-06GFS2: Extend the life of the reservationsBob Peterson
This patch lengthens the lifespan of the reservations structure for inodes. Before, they were allocated and deallocated for every write operation. With this patch, they are allocated when the first write occurs, and deallocated when the last process closes the file. It's more efficient to do it this way because it saves GFS2 a lot of unnecessary allocates and frees. It also gives us more flexibility for the future: (1) we can now fold the qadata structure back into the structure and save those alloc/frees, (2) we can use this for multi-block reservations. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2012-02-28GFS2: FITRIM ioctl supportSteven Whitehouse
The FITRIM ioctl provides an alternative way to send discard requests to the underlying device. Using the discard mount option results in every freed block generating a discard request to the block device. This can be slow, since many block devices can only process discard requests of larger sizes, and also such operations can be time consuming. Rather than using the discard mount option, FITRIM allows a sweep of the filesystem on an occasional basis, and also to optionally avoid sending down discard requests for smaller regions. In GFS2 FITRIM will work at resource group granularity. There is a flag for each resource group which keeps track of which resource groups have been trimmed. This flag is reset whenever a deallocation occurs in the resource group, and set whenever a successful FITRIM of that resource group has taken place. This helps to reduce repeated discard requests for the same block ranges, again improving performance. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-11-22GFS2: decouple quota allocations from block allocationsBob Peterson
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 <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-11-21GFS2: move toward a generic multi-block allocatorBob Peterson
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 <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-11-15GFS2: combine gfs2_alloc_block and gfs2_alloc_diBob Peterson
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 <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21GFS2: Remove two unused variablesSteven Whitehouse
The two variables being initialised in gfs2_inplace_reserve to track the file & line number of the caller are never used, so we might as well remove them. If something does go wrong, then a stack trace is probably more useful anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21GFS2: Use cached rgrp in gfs2_rlist_add()Steven Whitehouse
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 <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21GFS2: Make resource groups "append only" during life of fsSteven Whitehouse
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 <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-10-21GFS2: Use rbtree for resource groups and clean up bitmap buffer ref count schemeBob Peterson
Here is an update of Bob's original rbtree patch which, in addition, also resolves the rather strange ref counting that was being done relating to the bitmap blocks. Originally we had a dual system for journaling resource groups. The metadata blocks were journaled and also the rgrp itself was added to a list. The reason for adding the rgrp to the list in the journal was so that the "repolish clones" code could be run to update the free space, and potentially send any discard requests when the log was flushed. This was done by comparing the "cloned" bitmap with what had been written back on disk during the transaction commit. Due to this, there was a requirement to hang on to the rgrps' bitmap buffers until the journal had been flushed. For that reason, there was a rather complicated set up in the ->go_lock ->go_unlock functions for rgrps involving both a mutex and a spinlock (the ->sd_rindex_spin) to maintain a reference count on the buffers. However, the journal maintains a reference count on the buffers anyway, since they are being journaled as metadata buffers. So by moving the code which deals with the post-journal accounting for bitmap blocks to the metadata journaling code, we can entirely dispense with the rather strange buffer ref counting scheme and also the requirement to journal the rgrps. The net result of all this is that the ->sd_rindex_spin is left to do exactly one job, and that is to look after the rbtree or rgrps. This patch is designed to be a stepping stone towards using RCU for the rbtree of resource groups, however the reduction in the number of uses of the ->sd_rindex_spin is likely to have benefits for multi-threaded workloads, anyway. The patch retains ->go_lock and ->go_unlock for rgrps, however these maybe also be removed in future in favour of calling the functions directly where required in the code. That will allow locking of resource groups without needing to actually read them in - something that could be useful in speeding up statfs. In the mean time though it is valid to dereference ->bi_bh only when the rgrp is locked. This is basically the same rule as before, modulo the references not being valid until the following journal flush. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
2011-07-15GFS2: combine duplicated block freeing routinesEric Sandeen
__gfs2_free_data and __gfs2_free_meta are almost identical, and can be trivially combined. [This is as per Eric's original patch minus gfs2_free_data() which had no callers left and plus the conversion of the bmap.c calls to these functions. All in all, a nice clean up] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2011-02-24GFS2: deallocation performance patchBob Peterson
This patch is a performance improvement to GFS2's dealloc code. Rather than update the quota file and statfs file for every single block that's stripped off in unlink function do_strip, this patch keeps track and updates them once for every layer that's stripped. This is done entirely inside the existing transaction, so there should be no risk of corruption. The other functions that deallocate blocks will be unaffected because they are using wrapper functions that do the same thing that they do today. I tested this code on my roth cluster by creating 200 files in a directory, each of which is 100MB, then on four nodes, I simultaneously deleted the files, thus competing for GFS2 resources (but different files). The commands I used were: [root@roth-01]# time for i in `seq 1 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done [root@roth-02]# time for i in `seq 2 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done [root@roth-03]# time for i in `seq 3 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done [root@roth-05]# time for i in `seq 4 4 200` ; do rm /mnt/gfs2/bigdir/gfs2.$i; done The performance increase was significant: roth-01 roth-02 roth-03 roth-05 --------- --------- --------- --------- old: real 0m34.027 0m25.021s 0m23.906s 0m35.646s new: real 0m22.379s 0m24.362s 0m24.133s 0m18.562s Total time spent deleting: old: 118.6s new: 89.4 For this particular case, this showed a 25% performance increase for GFS2 unlinks. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-11-30GFS2: fix recursive locking during rindex truncatesBenjamin Marzinski
When you truncate the rindex file, you need to avoid calling gfs2_rindex_hold, since you already hold it. However, if you haven't already read in the resource groups, you need to do that. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-09-30GFS2 fatal: filesystem consistency error on renameBob Peterson
This patch fixes a GFS2 problem whereby the first rename after a mount can result in a file system consistency error being flagged improperly and cause the file system to withdraw. The problem is that the rename code tries to run the rgrp list with function gfs2_blk2rgrpd before the rgrp list is guaranteed to be read in from disk. The patch makes the rename function hold the rindex glock (as the gfs2_unlink code does today) which reads in the rgrp list if need be. There were a total of three places in the rename code that improperly referenced the rgrp list without the rindex glock and this patch fixes all three. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-09-08GFS2: Be extra careful about deallocating inodesSteven Whitehouse
There is a potential race in the inode deallocation code if two nodes try to deallocate the same inode at the same time. Most of the issue is solved by the iopen locking. There is still a small window which is not covered by the iopen lock. This patches fixes that and also makes the deallocation code more robust in the face of any errors in the rgrp bitmaps, or erroneous iopen callbacks from other nodes. This does introduce one extra disk read, but that is generally not an issue since its the same block that must be written to later in the deallocation process. The total disk accesses therefore stay the same, Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-08-17GFS2: Improve error handling in inode allocationSteven Whitehouse
A little while back, block allocation was given some improved error handling which meant that -EIO was returned in the case of there being a problem in the resource group data. In addition a message is printed explaning what went wrong and how to fix it. This extends that error handling so that it also covers inode allocation too. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2009-05-20GFS2: Improve resource group error handlingSteven Whitehouse
This patch improves the error handling in the case where we discover that the summary information in the resource group doesn't match the bitmap information while in the process of allocating blocks. Originally this resulted in a kernel bug, but this patch changes that so that we return -EIO and print some messages explaining what went wrong, and how to fix it. We also remember locally not to try and allocate from the same rgrp again, so that a subsequent allocation in a different rgrp should succeed. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-03-31[GFS2] Add extent allocation to block allocatorSteven Whitehouse
Rather than having to allocate a single block at a time, this patch allows the block allocator to allocate an extent. Since there is no difference (so far as the block allocator is concerned) between data blocks and indirect blocks, it is posible to allocate a single extent and for the caller to unrevoke just the blocks required for indirect blocks. Currently the only bit of GFS2 to make use of this feature is the build height function. The intention is that gfs2_block_map will be changed to make use of this feature in future patches. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-03-31[GFS2] Merge gfs2_alloc_meta and gfs2_alloc_dataSteven Whitehouse
Thanks to the preceeding patches, the only difference between these two functions is their name. We can thus merge them and call the new function gfs2_alloc_block to reflect the fact that it can allocate either kind of block. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-03-31[GFS2] Get rid of unneeded parameter in gfs2_rlist_allocBob Peterson
This patch removed the unnecessary parameter from function gfs2_rlist_alloc. The parameter was always passed in as 0. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2008-01-25[GFS2] Reduce inode size by moving i_alloc out of lineSteven Whitehouse
It is possible to reduce the size of GFS2 inodes by taking the i_alloc structure out of the gfs2_inode. This patch allocates the i_alloc structure whenever its needed, and frees it afterward. This decreases the amount of low memory we use at the expense of requiring a memory allocation for each page or partial page that we write. A quick test with postmark shows that the overhead is not measurable and I also note that OCFS2 use the same approach. In the future I'd like to solve the problem by shrinking down the size of the members of the i_alloc structure, but for now, this reduces the immediate problem of using too much low-memory on x86 and doesn't add too much overhead. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2007-07-09[GFS2] Addendum patch 2 for gfs2_growRobert Peterson
This addendum patch 2 corrects three things: 1. It fixes a stupid mistake in the previous addendum that broke gfs2. Ref: https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2007-May/msg00162.html 2. It fixes a problem that Dave Teigland pointed out regarding the external declarations in ops_address.h being in the wrong place. 3. It recasts a couple more %llu printks to (unsigned long long) as requested by Steve Whitehouse. I would have loved to put this all in one revised patch, but there was a rush to get some patches for RHEL5. Therefore, the previous patches were applied to the git tree "as is" and therefore, I'm posting another addendum. Sorry. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-10-12[GFS2] Fix uninitialised variableSteven Whitehouse
This fixes a bug where, in certain cases an uninitialised variable could cause a dereference of a NULL pointer in gfs2_commit_write(). Also a typo in a comment is fixed at the same time. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] More style fixesSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's follow up emails, here are a few small fixes which were missed earlier. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-05[GFS2] Make headers compile on their ownSteven Whitehouse
As per Jan Engelhardt's comments, this should make all the headers compile on their own by including and/or declaring structures early. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-04[GFS2] Change all types to uX styleSteven Whitehouse
This makes all fixed size types have consistent names. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-09-01[GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.hSteven Whitehouse
As per comments from Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> this updates the copyright message to say "version" in full rather than "v.2". Also incore.h has been updated to remove forward structure declarations which are not required. The gfs2_quota_lvb structure has now had endianess annotations added to it. Also quota.c has been updated so that we now store the lvb data locally in endian independant format to avoid needing a structure in host endianess too. As a result the endianess conversions are done as required at various points and thus the conversion routines in lvb.[ch] are no longer required. I've moved the one remaining constant in lvb.h thats used into lm.h and removed the unused lvb.[ch]. I have not changed the HIF_ constants. That is left to a later patch which I hope will unify the gh_flags and gh_iflags fields of the struct gfs2_holder. Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-07-11[GFS2] Add generation numberSteven Whitehouse
This adds a generation number for the eventual use of NFS to the ondisk inode. Its backward compatible with the current code since it doesn't really matter what the generation number is to start with, and indeed since its set to zero, due to it being taken from padding in both the inode and rgrp header, it should be fine. The eventual plan is to use this rather than no_formal_ino in the NFS filehandles. At that point no_formal_ino will be unused. At the same time we also add a releasepages call back to the "normal" address space for gfs2 inodes. Also I've removed a one-linrer function thats not required any more. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-22[GFS2] [-mm patch] fs/gfs2/: make code staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static: - eaops.c: struct gfs2_security_eaops - rgrp.c: gfs2_free_uninit_di() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-06-14[GFS2] Fix unlinked file handlingSteven Whitehouse
This patch fixes the way we have been dealing with unlinked, but still open files. It removes all limits (other than memory for inodes, as per every other filesystem) on numbers of these which we can support on GFS2. It also means that (like other fs) its the responsibility of the last process to close the file to deallocate the storage, rather than the person who did the unlinking. Note that with GFS2, those two events might take place on different nodes. Also there are a number of other changes: o We use the Linux inode subsystem as it was intended to be used, wrt allocating GFS2 inodes o The Linux inode cache is now the point which we use for local enforcement of only holding one copy of the inode in core at once (previous to this we used the glock layer). o We no longer use the unlinked "special" file. We just ignore it completely. This makes unlinking more efficient. o We now use the 4th block allocation state. The previously unused state is used to track unlinked but still open inodes. o gfs2_inoded is no longer needed o Several fields are now no longer needed (and removed) from the in core struct gfs2_inode o Several fields are no longer needed (and removed) from the in core superblock There are a number of future possible optimisations and clean ups which have been made possible by this patch. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-05-18[GFS2] Update copyright date to 2006Steven Whitehouse
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-01-16[GFS2] The core of GFS2David Teigland
This patch contains all the core files for GFS2. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>