The entry point at the defrag ioctl always sets "cache only" to 0;
the codepaths haven't run for a long time as far as I can
tell. Chris says they're dead code, so remove them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
The header file will then be installed under /usr/include/linux so that
userspace applications can refer to Btrfs ioctls by name and use the same
structs used internally in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH overrides read and search permission check on
file and directory. It seems fit for BTRFS_IOC_INO_PATHS.
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
This patch fixes the following problem:
- improper return value
- unnecessary read-only check
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Dave Sterba triggered a lockdep complaint about lock ordering
between the sb_internal lock and the cleaner semaphore.
btrfs_lookup_dentry() checks for orphans if we're looking up
the inode for a subvolume, and subvolume creation is triggering
the lookup with a transaction running.
This commit moves the d_instantiate after the transaction closes.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Operation-specific check (whether subvol is readonly or not) should go
after the mutual exclusiveness check.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
The error code that is returned in response to starting a mutually
exclusive operation when there is one already running got silently
changed from EINVAL to EINPROGRESS by 5ac00add. Returning EINPROGRESS
to, say, add_dev, when rm_dev is running is misleading. Furthermore,
the operation itself may want to use EINPROGRESS for other purposes.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Balance pause/resume logic got broken by 5ac00add (went in into 3.8-rc1
as part of dev-replace merge). Offending commit took a stab at making
mutually exclusive volume operations (add_dev, rm_dev, resize, balance,
replace_dev) not block behind volume_mutex if another such operation is
in progress and instead return an error right away. Balancing front-end
relied on the blocking behaviour, so the fix is ugly, but short of a
complete rework, it's the best we can do.
Reported-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
We forget to give up the write access after we find some device operation
is going on. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Step to reproduce:
# mkfs.btrfs <disk>
# mount <disk> <mnt>
# btrfs sub create <mnt>/subv0
# btrfs sub snap <mnt> <mnt>/subv0/snap0
# change <mnt>/subv0 from R/W to R/O
# btrfs sub del <mnt>/subv0/snap0
We deleted the snapshot successfully. I think we should not be able to delete
the snapshot since the parent subvolume is R/O.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Users report a bug, the reproducer is:
$ mkfs.btrfs /dev/loop0
$ mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/btrfs/
$ mkdir /mnt/btrfs/dir
$ chattr +C /mnt/btrfs/dir/
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/btrfs/dir/foo bs=4K count=10;
$ lsattr /mnt/btrfs/dir/foo
---------------C- /mnt/btrfs/dir/foo
$ filefrag /mnt/btrfs/dir/foo
/mnt/btrfs/dir/foo: 1 extent found ---> an extent
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/btrfs/dir/foo bs=4K count=1 seek=5 conv=notrunc,nocreat; sync
$ filefrag /mnt/btrfs/dir/foo
/mnt/btrfs/dir/foo: 3 extents found ---> with nocow, btrfs breaks the extent into three parts
The new created file should not only inherit the NODATACOW flag, but also
honor NODATASUM flag, because we must do COW on a file extent with checksum.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
The handling for directory crc hash overflows was fairly obscure,
split_leaf returns EOVERFLOW when we try to extend the item and that is
supposed to bubble up to userland. For a while it did so, but along the
way we added better handling of errors and forced the FS readonly if we
hit IO errors during the directory insertion.
Along the way, we started testing only for EEXIST and the EOVERFLOW case
was dropped. The end result is that we may force the FS readonly if we
catch a directory hash bucket overflow.
This fixes a few problem spots. First I add tests for EOVERFLOW in the
places where we can safely just return the error up the chain.
btrfs_rename is harder though, because it tries to insert the new
directory item only after it has already unlinked anything the rename
was going to overwrite. Rather than adding very complex logic, I added
a helper to test for the hash overflow case early while it is still safe
to bail out.
Snapshot and subvolume creation had a similar problem, so they are using
the new helper now too.
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Reported-by: Pascal Junod <pascal@junod.info>
We need get write access for qgroup operations, or we will modify the R/O fs.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
We need get write access for scrub, or we will modify the R/O fs.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Steps to reproduce:
# mkfs.btrfs -d single -m single <disk0> <disk1>
# mount -o ro <disk0> <mnt0>
# mount -o ro <disk0> <mnt1>
# mount -o remount,rw <mnt0>
# umount <mnt0>
# btrfs device delete <disk1> <mnt1>
We can remove a device from a R/O filesystem. The reason is that we just check
the R/O flag of the super block object. It is not enough, because the kernel
may set the R/O flag only for the mount point. We need invoke
mnt_want_write_file()
to do a full check.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Steps to reproduce:
# mkfs.btrfs <partition>
# mount -o ro <partition> <mnt0>
# mount -o ro <partition> <mnt1>
# mount -o remount,rw <mnt0>
# umount <mnt0>
# btrfs fi resize 10g <mnt1>
We re-sized a R/O filesystem. The reason is that we just check the R/O flag
of the super block object. It is not enough, because the kernel may set the
R/O flag only for the mount point. We need invoke mnt_want_write_file() to
do a full check.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
When wen want to set the default subvolume, we must get write access, or
we will change the R/O file system.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
If there is no running transaction in the fs, we needn't start a new one when
we want to start sync.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Since we have gotten the root in the caller, just pass it into
btrfs_ioctl_{start, wait}_sync() directly.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
This is the commit that allows to start the device replace
procedure.
An ioctl() interface is added that supports starting and
canceling the device replace procedure, and to retrieve
the status and progress.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
This patch adds some code to disallow operations on the device that
is used as the target for the device replace operation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Btrfs admin operations that are manually started from user mode
and that cannot be executed at the same time return -EINPROGRESS.
A common way to enter and leave this locked section is introduced
since it used to be specific to the balance operation.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
A small number of functions that are used in a device replace
procedure when the operation is resumed at mount time are unable
to pass the same root pointer that would be used in the regular
(ioctl) context. And since the root pointer is not required, only
the fs_info is, the root pointer argument is replaced with the
fs_info pointer argument.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
When creating a snapshot, failing to commit a transaction can end up
with aborting the transaction, following by doing a cleanup for it, where
we'll free all snapshots pending to disk.
So we check it and avoid double free on pending snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Remove an invalid size check up from btrfs_shrink_dev().
The new size should not larger than the device->total_bytes as it was
already verified before coming to here(i.e. new_size < old_size).
Remove invalid check up for btrfs_shrink_dev().
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Pull btrfs fixes from Chris Mason:
"This has our series of fixes for the next rc. The biggest batch is
from Jan Schmidt, fixing up some problems in our subvolume quota code
and fixing btrfs send/receive to work with the new extended inode
refs."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs:
Btrfs: do not bug when we fail to commit the transaction
Btrfs: fix memory leak when cloning root's node
Btrfs: Use btrfs_update_inode_fallback when creating a snapshot
Btrfs: Send: preserve ownership (uid and gid) also for symlinks.
Btrfs: fix deadlock caused by the nested chunk allocation
btrfs: Return EINVAL when length to trim is less than FSB
Btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_quota_enable()
Btrfs: send correct rdev and mode in btrfs-send
Btrfs: extended inode refs support for send mechanism
Btrfs: Fix wrong error handling code
Fix a sign bug causing invalid memory access in the ino_paths ioctl.
Btrfs: comment for loop in tree_mod_log_insert_move
Btrfs: fix extent buffer reference for tree mod log roots
Btrfs: determine level of old roots
Btrfs: tree mod log's old roots could still be part of the tree
Btrfs: fix a tree mod logging issue for root replacement operations
Btrfs: don't put removals from push_node_left into tree mod log twice
We BUG if we fail to commit the transaction when creating a snapshot, which
is just obnoxious. Remove the BUG_ON(). Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Currently if len argument in btrfs_ioctl_fitrim() is smaller than
one FSB we will continue and finally return 0 bytes discarded.
However if the length to discard is smaller then file system block
we should really return EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
In order to accomodate retrying path-based syscalls, we need to add a
new "type" argument to audit_inode_child. This will tell us whether
we're looking for a child entry that represents a create or a delete.
If we find a parent, don't automatically assume that we need to create a
new entry. Instead, use the information we have to try to find an
existing entry first. Update it if one is found and create a new one if
not.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Most of the callers get called with an inode and dentry in the reverse
order. The compiler then has to reshuffle the arg registers and/or
stack in order to pass them on to audit_inode_child.
Reverse those arguments for a micro-optimization.
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull btrfs update from Chris Mason:
"This is a large pull, with the bulk of the updates coming from:
- Hole punching
- send/receive fixes
- fsync performance
- Disk format extension allowing more hardlinks inside a single
directory (btrfs-progs patch required to enable the compat bit for
this one)
I'm cooking more unrelated RAID code, but I wanted to make sure this
original batch makes it in. The largest updates here are relatively
old and have been in testing for some time."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (121 commits)
btrfs: init ref_index to zero in add_inode_ref
Btrfs: remove repeated eb->pages check in, disk-io.c/csum_dirty_buffer
Btrfs: fix page leakage
Btrfs: do not warn_on when we cannot alloc a page for an extent buffer
Btrfs: don't bug on enomem in readpage
Btrfs: cleanup pages properly when ENOMEM in compression
Btrfs: make filesystem read-only when submitting barrier fails
Btrfs: detect corrupted filesystem after write I/O errors
Btrfs: make compress and nodatacow mount options mutually exclusive
btrfs: fix message printing
Btrfs: don't bother committing delayed inode updates when fsyncing
btrfs: move inline function code to header file
Btrfs: remove unnecessary IS_ERR in bio_readpage_error()
btrfs: remove unused function btrfs_insert_some_items()
Btrfs: don't commit instead of overcommitting
Btrfs: confirmation of value is added before trace_btrfs_get_extent() is called
Btrfs: be smarter about dropping things from the tree log
Btrfs: don't lookup csums for prealloc extents
Btrfs: cache extent state when writing out dirty metadata pages
Btrfs: do not hold the file extent leaf locked when adding extent item
...
So far the return code of barrier_all_devices() is ignored, which
means that errors are ignored. The result can be a corrupt
filesystem which is not consistent.
This commit adds code to evaluate the return code of
barrier_all_devices(). The normal btrfs_error() mechanism is used to
switch the filesystem into read-only mode when errors are detected.
In order to decide whether barrier_all_devices() should return
error or success, the number of disks that are allowed to fail the
barrier submission is calculated. This calculation accounts for the
worst RAID level of metadata, system and data. If single, dup or
RAID0 is in use, a single disk error is already considered to be
fatal. Otherwise a single disk error is tolerated.
The calculation of the number of disks that are tolerated to fail
the barrier operation is performed when the filesystem gets mounted,
when a balance operation is started and finished, and when devices
are added or removed.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Behrens <sbehrens@giantdisaster.de>
Btrfs uses inclusive range end for lock_extent(), unlock_extent() and
related functions, so we made off-by-one errors in file clone.
This fixes it and also fixes some style problems.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Hi,
the patch si simple, but it has user visible impact and I'm not quite sure how
to resolve it.
In short, $subj says it, chattr -C supports it and we want to use it.
The conditions that acutally allow to change the NOCOW flag are clear. What if
I try to set the flag on a file that is not empty? Options:
1) whole ioctl will fail, EINVAL
2.1) ioctl will succeed, the NOCOW flag will be silently removed, but the file
will stay COW-ed and checksummed
2.2) ioctl will succeed, flag will not be removed and a syslog message will
warn that the COW flag has not been changed
2.2.1) dtto, no syslog message
Man page of chattr states that
"If it is set on a file which already has data blocks, it is undefined when
the blocks assigned to the file will be fully stable."
Yes, it's undefined and with current implementation it'll never happen. So from
this end, the user cannot expect anything. I'm trying to find a reasonable
behaviour, so that a command like 'chattr -R -aijS +C' to tweak a broad set of
flags in a deep directory does not fail unnecessarily and does not pollute the
log.
My personal preference is 2.2.1, but my dev's oppinion is skewed, not counting
the fact that I know the code and otherwise would look there before consulting
the documentation.
The patch implements 2.2.1.
david
-------------8<-------------------
From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
It's safe to turn off checksums for a zero sized file.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/18030
"We cannot switch on NODATASUM for a file that already has extents that
are checksummed. The invariant here is that either all the extents or
none are checksummed.
Theoretically it's possible to add/remove all checksums from a given
file, but it's a potentially longtime operation, the file has to be in
some intermediate state where the checksums partially exist but have to
be ignored (for the csum->nocsum) until the file is fully converted,
this brings more special cases to extent handling, it has to survive
power failure and remain consistent, and probably needs to be restarted
after next mount."
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Pull vfs update from Al Viro:
- big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
that is moved to fs/file.c
(BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is,
we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
struct file we used to have way back).
A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of
relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
leak.
- related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).
- also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into
that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
switch of fdinfo to seq_file.
- Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate
pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.
- a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle,
there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."
Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
/proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
usb/gadget: fix misannotations
fcntl: fix misannotations
ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
make get_file() return its argument
vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
...
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.
The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.
The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
handle those places with simple trivial patches.
Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
for most of the code size growth in my git tree.
Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
"capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.
While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.
Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
linux-next.
After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."
Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
...
This is the change of the kernel side.
Translation of logical to inode used to have an upper limit 4k on
inode container's size, but the limit is not large enough for a data
with a great many of refs, so when resolving logical address,
we can end up with
"ioctl ret=0, bytes_left=0, bytes_missing=19944, cnt=510, missed=2493"
This changes to regard 64k as the upper limit and use vmalloc instead of
kmalloc to get memory more easily.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
In logical resolve, we parse extent_from_logical()'s 'ret' as a kind of flag.
It is possible to lose our errors because
(-EXXXX & BTRFS_EXTENT_FLAG_TREE_BLOCK) is true.
I'm not sure if it is on purpose, it just looks too hacky if it is.
I'd rather use a real flag and a 'ret' to catch errors.
Acked-by: Jan Schmidt <list.btrfs@jan-o-sch.net>
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liub.liubo@gmail.com>
We're going to use this flag EXTENT_DEFRAG to indicate which range
belongs to defragment so that we can implement snapshow-aware defrag:
We set the EXTENT_DEFRAG flag when dirtying the extents that need
defragmented, so later on writeback thread can differentiate between
normal writeback and writeback started by defragmentation.
Original-Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
We should insert/update 6 items(root ref, root backref, dir item, dir index,
root item and parent inode) when creating a snapshot, not 5 items, fix it.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sometimes we need choose the method of the reservation according to the type
of the block reservation, such as the reservation for the delayed inode update.
Now we identify the type just by comparing the address of the reservation
variants, it is very ugly if it is a temporary one because we need compare it
with all the common reservation variants. So we add a new "type" field to keep
the type the reservation variants.
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
I audited all users of btrfs_drop_extents and found that nobody actually uses
the hint_byte argument. I'm sure it was used for something at some point but
it's not used now, and the way the pinning works the disk bytenr would never be
immediately useful anyway so lets just remove it. Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
At least for the vm workload. Currently on fsync we will
1) Truncate all items in the log tree for the given inode if they exist
and
2) Copy all items for a given inode into the log
The problem with this is that for things like VMs you can have lots of
extents from the fragmented writing behavior, and worst yet you may have
only modified a few extents, not the entire thing. This patch fixes this
problem by tracking which transid modified our extent, and then when we do
the tree logging we find all of the extents we've modified in our current
transaction, sort them and commit them. We also only truncate up to the
xattrs of the inode and copy that stuff in normally, and then just drop any
extents in the range we have that exist in the log already. Here are some
numbers of a 50 meg fio job that does random writes and fsync()s after every
write
Original Patched
SATA drive 82KB/s 140KB/s
Fusion drive 431KB/s 2532KB/s
So around 2-6 times faster depending on your hardware. There are a few
corner cases, for example if you truncate at all we have to do it the old
way since there is no way to be sure what is in the log is ok. This
probably could be done smarter, but if you write-fsync-truncate-write-fsync
you deserve what you get. All this work is in RAM of course so if your
inode gets evicted from cache and you read it in and fsync it we'll do it
the slow way if we are still in the same transaction that we last modified
the inode in.
The biggest cool part of this is that it requires no changes to the recovery
code, so if you fsync with this patch and crash and load an old kernel, it
will run the recovery and be a-ok. I have tested this pretty thoroughly
with an fsync tester and everything comes back fine, as well as xfstests.
Thanks,
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
