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* GFS2: Kill two daemons with one patchSteven Whitehouse2009-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes the two daemons, gfs2_scand and gfs2_glockd and replaces them with a shrinker which is called from the VM. The net result is that GFS2 responds better when there is memory pressure, since it shrinks the glock cache at the same rate as the VFS shrinks the dcache and icache. There are no longer any time based criteria for shrinking glocks, they are kept until such time as the VM asks for more memory and then we demote just as many glocks as required. There are potential future changes to this code, including the possibility of sorting the glocks which are to be written back into inode number order, to get a better I/O ordering. It would be very useful to have an elevator based workqueue implementation for this, as that would automatically deal with the read I/O cases at the same time. This patch is my answer to Andrew Morton's remark, made during the initial review of GFS2, asking why GFS2 needs so many kernel threads, the answer being that it doesn't :-) This patch is a net loss of about 200 lines of code. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* GFS2: Move gfs2_recoverd into recovery.cSteven Whitehouse2009-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | By moving gfs2_recoverd, we can make an additional function static and it also leaves only (the already scheduled for removal) gfs2_glockd in daemon.c. At the same time the declaration of gfs2_quotad is moved to quota.h to reflect the new location of gfs2_quotad in a previous patch. Also the recovery.h and quota.h headers are cleaned up. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* [GFS2] Move gfs2_logd into log.cSteven Whitehouse2008-01-25
| | | | | | | This means that we can mark gfs2_ail1_empty static and prepares the way for further changes. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* [GFS2] Reduce number of gfs2_scand processes to oneSteven Whitehouse2007-10-10
| | | | | | | | | We only need a single gfs2_scand process rather than the one per filesystem which we had previously. As a result the parameter determining the frequency of gfs2_scand runs becomes a module parameter rather than a mount parameter as it was before. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* [GFS2] Update copyright, tidy up incore.hSteven Whitehouse2006-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [GFS2] Fix unlinked file handlingSteven Whitehouse2006-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [GFS2] Update copyright date to 2006Steven Whitehouse2006-05-18
| | | | Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* [GFS2] The core of GFS2David Teigland2006-01-16
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>