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2016-02-22mbcache: add reusable flag to cache entriesAndreas Gruenbacher
To reduce amount of damage caused by single bad block, we limit number of inodes sharing an xattr block to 1024. Thus there can be more xattr blocks with the same contents when there are lots of files with the same extended attributes. These xattr blocks naturally result in hash collisions and can form long hash chains and we unnecessarily check each such block only to find out we cannot use it because it is already shared by too many inodes. Add a reusable flag to cache entries which is cleared when a cache entry has reached its maximum refcount. Cache entries which are not marked reusable are skipped by mb_cache_entry_find_{first,next}. This significantly speeds up mbcache when there are many same xattr blocks. For example for xattr-bench with 5 values and each process handling 20000 files, the run for 64 processes is 25x faster with this patch. Even for 8 processes the speedup is almost 3x. We have also verified that for situations where there is only one xattr block of each kind, the patch doesn't have a measurable cost. [JK: Remove handling of setting the same value since it is not needed anymore, check for races in e_reusable setting, improve changelog, add measurements] Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2016-02-22mbcache: get rid of _e_hash_list_headAndreas Gruenbacher
Get rid of field _e_hash_list_head in cache entries and add bit field e_referenced instead. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2016-02-22mbcache2: rename to mbcacheJan Kara
Since old mbcache code is gone, let's rename new code to mbcache since number 2 is now meaningless. This is just a mechanical replacement. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2016-02-22mbcache: remove mbcacheJan Kara
Both ext2 and ext4 are now converted to mbcache2. Remove the old mbcache code. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2014-03-18fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_nodeT Makphaibulchoke
This patch changes each mb_cache's both block and index hash chains to use a hlist_bl_node, which contains a built-in lock. This is the first step in decoupling of locks serializing accesses to mb_cache global data and each mb_cache_entry local data. Signed-off-by: T. Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-10ext2: Resolve 'dereferencing pointer to incomplete type' when enabling ↵Josh Hunt
EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG When I enable EXT2_XATTR_DEBUG in fs/ext2/xattr.c I get a build error stating the following: CC fs/ext2/xattr.o fs/ext2/xattr.c: In function 'ext2_xattr_cache_insert': fs/ext2/xattr.c:841: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type fs/ext2/xattr.c:846: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type make[2]: *** [fs/ext2/xattr.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [fs/ext2] Error 2 make: *** [fs] Error 2 These lines reference ext2_xattr_cache->c_entry_count which is defined in struct mb_cache. struct mb_cache is currently only defined in fs/mbcache.c. Moving struct mb_cache definition to include/linux/mbcache.h to resolve the issue. Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2010-08-09mbcache: Remove unused featuresAndreas Gruenbacher
The mbcache code was written to support a variable number of indexes, but all the existing users use exactly one index. Simplify to code to support only that case. There are also no users of the cache entry free operation, and none of the users keep extra data in cache entries. Remove those features as well. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-04-15vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrsJan Kara
mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL. But filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction start / i_mutex for ext2-4. Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*Al Viro
- ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated - missing gfp_t in fs/* added - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks: XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator. The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a different type for those but for now let's leave them alone. That, BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with no way to catch misuses. Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that immediately... One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is a mix of gfp_t and error indications. Left alone for now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27[PATCH] mbcache: Remove unused mb_cache_shrink parameterAndreas Gruenbacher
The cache parameter to mb_cache_shrink isn't used. We may as well remove it. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!