1
Commit Graph

62 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Theodore Ts'o
fde4d95ad8 ext4: remove extraneous newlines from calls to ext4_error() and ext4_warning()
This removes annoying blank syslog entries emitted by ext4_error() or
ext4_warning(), since these functions add their own newline.

Signed-off-by: Nick Warne <nick@ukfsn.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-05 22:17:35 -05:00
Frank Mayhar
0390131ba8 ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal
A few weeks ago I posted a patch for discussion that allowed ext4 to run
without a journal.  Since that time I've integrated the excellent
comments from Andreas and fixed several serious bugs.  We're currently
running with this patch and generating some performance numbers against
both ext2 (with backported reservations code) and ext4 with and without
a journal.  It just so happens that running without a journal is
slightly faster for most everything.

We did
	iozone -T -t 4 s 2g -r 256k -T -I -i0 -i1 -i2

which creates 4 threads, each of which create and do reads and writes on
a 2G file, with a buffer size of 256K, using O_DIRECT for all file opens
to bypass the page cache.  Results:

                     ext2        ext4, default   ext4, no journal
  initial writes   13.0 MB/s        15.4 MB/s          15.7 MB/s
  rewrites         13.1 MB/s        15.6 MB/s          15.9 MB/s
  reads            15.2 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  re-reads         15.3 MB/s        16.9 MB/s          17.2 MB/s
  random readers    5.6 MB/s         5.6 MB/s           5.7 MB/s
  random writers    5.1 MB/s         5.3 MB/s           5.4 MB/s 

So it seems that, so far, this was a useful exercise.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-01-07 00:06:22 -05:00
Yasunori Goto
ff7ef329b2 ext4: Widen type of ext4_sb_info.s_mb_maxs[]
I chased the cause of following ext4 oops report which is tested on
ia64 box.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12018

The cause is the size of s_mb_maxs array that is defined as "unsigned
short" in ext4_sb_info structure.  If the file system's block size is
8k or greater, an unsigned short is not wide enough to contain the
value fs->blocksize << 3.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-12-17 00:48:39 -05:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ae2d9fb18e ext4: fix missing ext4_unlock_group in error path
If we try to free a block which is already freed, the code was
returning without first unlocking the group.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-11-04 09:10:50 -05:00
Theodore Ts'o
3e624fc72f ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback
The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
blocks is committed.  Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
when blocks are allocated or freed.  A much better way of doing things
is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
to be freed directly to the transaction structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 20:00:24 -04:00
Manish Katiyar
0b09923eab ext4: Remove compile warnings when building w/o CONFIG_PROC_FS
Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-17 14:58:45 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
8a0aba733d ext4: let the block device know when unused blocks can be discarded
Let the block device know when unused blocks can be discarded, using
the new sb_issue_discard() interface.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 10:06:27 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
c894058d66 ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during transaction.
With this patch we track the block freed during a transaction using
red-black tree.  We also make sure contiguous blocks freed are collected
in one node in the tree.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-16 10:14:27 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
688f05a019 ext4: Free ext4_prealloc_space using kmem_cache_free
We should use kmem_cache_free to free memory allocated
via kmem_cache_alloc

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-13 12:14:14 -04:00
Frederic Bohe
c806e68f56 ext4: fix initialization of UNINIT bitmap blocks
This fixes a bug which caused on-line resizing of filesystems with a
1k blocksize to fail.  The root cause of this bug was the fact that if
an uninitalized bitmap block gets read in by userspace (which
e2fsprogs does try to avoid, but can happen when the blocksize is less
than the pagesize and an adjacent blocks is read into memory)
ext4_read_block_bitmap() was erroneously depending on the buffer
uptodate flag to decide whether it needed to initialize the bitmap
block in memory --- i.e., to set the standard set of blocks in use by
a block group (superblock, bitmaps, inode table, etc.).  Essentially,
ext4_read_block_bitmap() assumed it was the only routine that might
try to read a block containing a block bitmap, which is simply not
true.  

To fix this, ext4_read_block_bitmap() and ext4_read_inode_bitmap()
must always initialize uninitialized bitmap blocks.  Once a block or
inode is allocated out of that bitmap, it will be marked as
initialized in the block group descriptor, so in general this won't
result any extra unnecessary work.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 08:09:18 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
c2ea3fde61 ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 09:40:52 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
5e8814f2f7 ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions
Previously mballoc created a separate set of functions for each proc
file.  This combines the tunables into a single set of functions which
gets used for all of the per-superblock proc files, saving
approximately 2k of compiled object code.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 18:07:35 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
9f6200bbfc ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c
...and into the core setup/teardown code in fs/ext4/super.c so that
other parts of ext4 can define tuning parameters.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-23 09:18:24 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
730c213c79 ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list
lg_prealloc_list seems to cry out for a per-cpu data structure; on a large
smp system I think this should be better.  I've lightly tested this change
on a 4-cpu system.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-13 15:23:29 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
899fc1a4cf ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats more carefully
ext4 creates per-suberblock directory in /proc/ext4/ . Name used as
basis is taken from bdevname, which, surprise, can contain slash.

However, proc while allowing to use proc_create("a/b", parent) form of
PDE creation, assumes that parent/a was already created.

bdevname in question is 'cciss/c0d0p9', directory is not created and all
this stuff goes directly into /proc (which is real bug).

Warning comes when _second_ partition is mounted.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11321

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-14 10:21:33 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
6bc6e63fcd ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting.
This patch adds dirty block accounting using percpu_counters.  Delayed
allocation block reservation is now done by updating dirty block
counter.  In a later patch we switch to non delalloc mode if the
filesystem free blocks is greater than 150% of total filesystem dirty
blocks

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao<cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-10 09:39:00 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
030ba6bc67 ext4: Retry block reservation
During block reservation if we don't have enough blocks left, retry
block reservation with smaller block counts.  This makes sure we try
fallocate and DIO with smaller request size and don't fail early.  The
delayed allocation reservation cannot try with smaller block count. So
retry block reservation to handle temporary disk full conditions.  Also
print free blocks details if we fail block allocation during writepages.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 23:14:50 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
a30d542a00 ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks
With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before
we attempt to allocate them. Otherwise we get block allocation failure
(ENOSPC) during writepages which cannot be handled. This would mean
silent data loss (We do a printk stating data will be lost). This patch
updates the DIO and fallocate code path to do block reservation before
block allocation. This is needed to make sure parallel DIO and fallocate
request doesn't take block out of delayed reserve space.

When free blocks count go below a threshold we switch to a slow patch
which looks at other CPU's accumulated percpu counter values.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09 10:56:23 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
4776004f54 ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warnings
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-09-08 23:00:52 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
5e745b041f ext4: Fix small file fragmentation
For small file block allocations, mballoc uses per cpu prealloc
space.  Use goal block when searching for the right prealloc
space.  Also make sure ext4_da_writepages tries to write
all the pages for small files in single attempt

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-18 18:00:57 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
6be2ded1d7 ext4: Don't allow lg prealloc list to be grow large.
Currently, the locality group prealloc list is freed only when there
is a block allocation failure. This can result in large number of
entries in the preallocation list making ext4_mb_use_preallocated()
expensive.

To fix this, we convert the locality group prealloc list to a hash
list. The hash index is the order of number of blocks in the prealloc
space with a max order of 9. When adding prealloc space to the list we
make sure total entries for each order does not exceed 8. If it is
more than 8 we discard few entries and make sure the we have only <= 5
entries.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-23 14:14:05 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
1320cbcf77 ext4: Convert the usage of NR_CPUS to nr_cpu_ids.
NR_CPUS can be really large. We should be using nr_cpu_ids instead.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-23 14:09:26 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ce89f46cb8 ext4: Improve error handling in mballoc
Don't call BUG_ON on file system failures. Instead use ext4_error and
also handle the continue case properly.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-23 14:09:29 -04:00
Eric Sandeen
b5f10eed81 ext4: lock block groups when initializing
I noticed when filling a 1T filesystem with 4 threads using the
fs_mark benchmark:

fs_mark -d /mnt/test -D 256 -n 100000 -t 4 -s 20480 -F -S 0

that I occasionally got checksum mismatch errors:

EXT4-fs error (device sdb): ext4_init_inode_bitmap: Checksum bad for group 6935

etc.  I'd reliably get 4-5 of them during the run.

It appears that the problem is likely a race to init the bg's
when the uninit_bg feature is enabled.

With the patch below, which adds sb_bgl_locking around initialization,
I was able to complete several runs with no errors or warnings.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-08-02 21:21:08 -04:00
Mingming Cao
d2a1763791 ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling
This patch does block reservation for delayed
allocation, to avoid ENOSPC later at page flush time.

Blocks(data and metadata) are reserved at da_write_begin()
time, the freeblocks counter is updated by then, and the number of
reserved blocks is store in per inode counter.
        
At the writepage time, the unused reserved meta blocks are returned
back. At unlink/truncate time, reserved blocks are properly released.

Updated fix from  Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
to fix the oldallocator block reservation accounting with delalloc, added
lock to guard the counters and also fix the reservation for meta blocks.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-14 17:52:37 -04:00
Frederic Bohe
5f21b0e642 ext4: fix online resize with mballoc
Update group infos when updating a group's descriptor.
Add group infos when adding a group's descriptor.
Refresh cache pages used by mb_alloc when changes occur.
This will probably need modifications when META_BG resizing will be allowed.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Bohe <frederic.bohe@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Mingming Cao
0703143107 ext4: mballoc avoid use root reserved blocks for non root allocation
mballoc allocation missed check for blocks reserved for root users. Add
ext4_has_free_blocks() check before allocation. Also modified
ext4_has_free_blocks() to support multiple block allocation request.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
654b4908bc ext4: cleanup block allocator
Move the code related to block allocation to a single function and add helper
funtions to differient allocation for data and meta data blocks

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Shen Feng
363d4251d4 ext4: remove quota allocation when ext4_mb_new_blocks fails
Quota allocation is not removed when ext4_mb_new_blocks calls
kmem_cache_alloc failed.  Also make sure the allocation context is freed
on the error path.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jose R. Santos
772cb7c83b ext4: New inode allocation for FLEX_BG meta-data groups.
This patch mostly controls the way inode are allocated in order to
make ialloc aware of flex_bg block group grouping.  It achieves this
by bypassing the Orlov allocator when block group meta-data are packed
toghether through mke2fs.  Since the impact on the block allocator is
minimal, this patch should have little or no effect on other block
allocation algorithms. By controlling the inode allocation, it can
basically control where the initial search for new block begins and
thus indirectly manipulate the block allocator.

This allocator favors data and meta-data locality so the disk will
gradually be filled from block group zero upward.  This helps improve
performance by reducing seek time.  Since the group of inode tables
within one flex_bg are treated as one giant inode table, uninitialized
block groups would not need to partially initialize as many inode
table as with Orlov which would help fsck time as the filesystem usage
goes up.

Signed-off-by: Jose R. Santos <jrs@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Shen Feng
7e5a8cdd84 ext4: fix error processing in mb_free_blocks
The error processing of the return value of mb_free_blocks is meanless
because it only returns 0.  This fix includes

- make mb_free_blocks return void

- remove the error processing part in callers

- unlock group before calling ext4_error in mb_free_blocks

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-13 21:03:31 -04:00
Shen Feng
cfbe7e4f5e ext4: error proc entry creation when the fs/ext4 is not correctly created
When the directory fs/ext4 is not correctly created under proc, the entry
under this directory should not be created.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-13 21:03:31 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
574ca174c9 ext4: Rename read_block_bitmap() to ext4_read_block_bitmap()
Since this a non-static function, make it be ext4 specific to avoid
conflicts with potentially other filesystems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Shen Feng
74767c5a2d ext4: miscellaneous error checks and coding cleanups for mballoc
ext4_mb_seq_history_open(): check if sbi->s_mb_history is NULL

ext4_mb_history_init(): replace kmalloc and memset with kzalloc

ext4_mb_init_backend(): remove memset since kzalloc is used

ext4_mb_init(): the return value of ext4_mb_init_backend is int,
	but i is unsigned, replace it with a new int variable.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Shen Feng
fdf6c7a768 ext4: add error processing when calling ext4_mb_init_cache in mballoc
Add error processing for ext4_mb_load_buddy when it calls
ext4_mb_init_cache.

Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by:   Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Mingming Cao
31b481dc7c ext4: Fix ext4_mb_init_cache return error
ext4_mb_init_cache() incorrectly always return EIO on success. This
causes the caller of ext4_mb_init_cache() fail when it checks the return
value.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
91d9982779 ext4: switch to seq_files
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
ed8f9c751f ext4: start searching for the right extent from the goal group.
With mballoc we search for the best extent using different
criteria. We should always use the goal group when we are
starting with a new criteria.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
e7dfb2463e ext4: Fix mb_find_next_bit not to return larger than max
Some architectures implement ext4_find_next_bit and
ext4_find_next_zero_bit in such a way that they return
greater than max for some input values. Make sure
mb_find_next_bit and mb_find_next_zero_bit return the
right values.

On 2.6.25 we have include/asm-x86/bitops_32.h
static inline unsigned find_first_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned size)
{
	unsigned x = 0;

	while (x < size) {
		unsigned long val = *addr++;
		if (val)
			return __ffs(val) + x;
		x += (sizeof(*addr)<<3);
	}
	return x;
}

This can return value greater than size.

Reported and fixed here for lustre

https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15932
https://bugzilla.lustre.org/attachment.cgi?id=17205

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
03cddb80ed ext4: Fix use of uninitialized data with debug enabled.
Fix use of uninitialized data with debug enabled.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-06-05 20:59:29 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
519deca049 ext4: Retry block allocation if new blocks are allocated from system zone.
If the block allocator gets blocks out of system zone ext4 calls
ext4_error. But if the file system is mounted with errors=continue
retry block allocation. We need to mark the system zone blocks as
in use to make sure retry don't pick them again

System zone is the block range mapping block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode
table.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-15 14:43:20 -04:00
Valerie Clement
1930479c4b ext4: mballoc fix mb_normalize_request algorithm for 1KB block size filesystems
In case of inode preallocation, the number of blocks to allocate depends
on the file size and it is calculated in ext4_mb_normalize_request().
Each group in the filesystem is then checked to find one that can be
used for allocation; this is done in ext4_mb_good_group().

When a file bigger than 4MB is created, the requested number of blocks
to preallocate, calculated by ext4_mb_normalize_request is 4096.
However for a filesystem with 1KB block size, the maximum size of the
block buddies used by the multiblock allocator is 2048, so none of
groups in the filesystem satisfies the search criteria in
ext4_mb_good_group(). Scanning all the filesystem groups impacts
performance.

This was demonstrated by using a freshly created, 70GB, 1k block
filesystem, with caches dropped write before the test via
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, and with the filesystem mounted with
nodelalloc and nodealloc,nomballoc.  The time to write an 8 megabyte
file using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/fo bs=8k count=1k conv=fsync"
took 35.5091 seconds (236kB/s) with nodellaloc, and 0.233754 seconds
(35.9 MB/s) with the nodelloc,nomballoc options.  With a 1TB partition,
it took several minutes to write 8MB!

This patch modifies the algorithm in ext4_mb_normalize_group_request to
calculate the number of blocks to allocate by taking into account the
maximum size of free blocks chunks handled by the multiblock allocator.

It has also been tested for filesystems with 2KB and 4KB block sizes to
ensure that those cases don't regress.

Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-05-13 19:31:14 -04:00
Jean Delvare
f36f21ecca Fix misuses of bdevname()
bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
Roel Kluin
f1fa3342e2 ext4: fix hot spins in mballoc after err_freebuddy and err_freemeta
In ext4_mb_init_backend() 'i' is of type ext4_group_t. Since unsigned, i
>= 0 is always true, so fix hot spins after err_freebuddy: and -meta:
and prevent decrements when zero.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 22:01:15 -04:00
Mingming Cao
8f6e39a7ad ext4: Move mballoc headers/structures to a seperate header file mballoc.h
Move function and structure definiations out of mballoc.c and put it under
a new header file mballoc.h

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 22:01:31 -04:00
Solofo Ramangalahy
60bd63d192 ext4: cleanup for compiling mballoc with verification and debugging #defines
This patch allows compiling mballoc with:
#define AGGRESSIVE_CHECK
#define DOUBLE_CHECK
#define MB_DEBUG

It fixes:
Compilation errors:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function '__mb_check_buddy':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:605: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'group_list'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:606: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'pstart'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:608: error: 'struct ext4_prealloc_space' has no member named 'len'

Compilation warnings:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'ext4_mb_normalize_group_request':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2863: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int'
fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function 'ext4_mb_use_inode_pa':
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3103: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'int'

Sparse check:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c:3818:2: warning: context imbalance in 'ext4_mb_show_ac' - different lock contexts for basic block

Signed-off-by: Solofo Ramangalahy <Solofo.Ramangalahy@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 21:59:59 -04:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
c83617db76 ext4: Don't do GFP_NOFS allocations after taking ext4_lock_group
We can't do GFP_NOFS allocation after taking ext4_lock_group

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3054
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
1 lock held by vi/2426:
#0:  (&ei->i_data_sem){----}, at: [<c01cf665>] ext4_release_file+0x23/0x66
Pid: 2426, comm: vi Not tainted 2.6.25-rc7 #24
[<c011a3dc>] __might_sleep+0xbe/0xc5
[<c01620c9>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x22/0xa6
[<c01e382a>] ext4_mb_release_inode_pa+0x73/0x1b3
[<c01e6adf>] ext4_mb_discard_inode_preallocations+0x22d/0x2d4
[<c013000a>] ? param_set_ushort+0x32/0x39
[<c01ceba1>] ext4_discard_reservation+0x27/0x6a
[<c01cf66c>] ext4_release_file+0x2a/0x66
[<c0165bd6>] __fput+0xae/0x155
[<c0165e46>] fput+0x17/0x19
[<c0163756>] filp_close+0x50/0x5a
[<c01647c0>] sys_close+0x71/0xad
[<c0104aba>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0xa5

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 22:00:47 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
3dcf54515a ext4: move headers out of include/linux
Move ext4 headers out of include/linux.  This is just the trivial move,
there's some more thing that could be done later. 

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-29 18:13:32 -04:00
Harvey Harrison
46e665e9d2 ext4: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-17 10:38:59 -04:00
Mingming Cao
14499f3592 ext4: remove extra define of ext4_new_blocks_old from mballoc.c
The function prototype of ext4_new_blocks_old() is defined in ext4_fs.h,
so we don't need the extra function prototype in mballoc.c

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-04-17 10:38:59 -04:00