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| author | Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> | 2009-04-06 22:01:45 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-07 11:31:17 -0400 |
| commit | 047180f2d7bf95ff5699ca04da639a7556e23435 (patch) | |
| tree | 28f66f0880426ffae01892df531e820064ff7f6f /fs | |
| parent | 47420c799830d4676e544dbec56b2a7f787528f5 (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.c | 21 |
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 @@ | |||
| 1 | /* | 1 | /* |
| 2 | * gcinode.c - NILFS memory inode for GC | 2 | * gcinode.c - dummy inodes to buffer blocks for garbage collection |
| 3 | * | 3 | * |
| 4 | * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. | 4 | * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation. |
| 5 | * | 5 | * |
| @@ -22,6 +22,25 @@ | |||
| 22 | * Revised by Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>. | 22 | * Revised by Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke@osrg.net>. |
| 23 | * | 23 | * |
| 24 | */ | 24 | */ |
| 25 | /* | ||
| 26 | * This file adds the cache of on-disk blocks to be moved in garbage | ||
| 27 | * collection. The disk blocks are held with dummy inodes (called | ||
| 28 | * gcinodes), and this file provides lookup function of the dummy | ||
| 29 | * inodes and their buffer read function. | ||
| 30 | * | ||
| 31 | * Since NILFS2 keeps up multiple checkpoints/snapshots accross GC, it | ||
| 32 | * has to treat blocks that belong to a same file but have different | ||
| 33 | * checkpoint numbers. To avoid interference among generations, dummy | ||
| 34 | * inodes are managed separatly from actual inodes, and their lookup | ||
| 35 | * function (nilfs_gc_iget) is designed to be specified with a | ||
| 36 | * checkpoint number argument as well as an inode number. | ||
| 37 | * | ||
| 38 | * Buffers and pages held by the dummy inodes will be released each | ||
| 39 | * time after they are copied to a new log. Dirty blocks made on the | ||
| 40 | * current generation and the blocks to be moved by GC never overlap | ||
| 41 | * because the dirty blocks make a new generation; they rather must be | ||
| 42 | * written individually. | ||
| 43 | */ | ||
| 25 | 44 | ||
| 26 | #include <linux/buffer_head.h> | 45 | #include <linux/buffer_head.h> |
| 27 | #include <linux/mpage.h> | 46 | #include <linux/mpage.h> |