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Message-ID: <20130517032328.GA14249@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:23:28 +0800
From: Zheng Liu <gnehzuil.liu@...il.com>
To: Li Wang <liwang@...ntukylin.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>,
Yunchuan Wen <yunchuanwen@...ntukylin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid unnecessarily writing back dirty pages before hole
punching
Hello Li,
Thanks for fixing this. Some comments below.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:44:54PM +0800, Li Wang wrote:
> For hole punching, currently ext4 will synchronously write back the
> dirty pages fit into the hole, since the data on the disk responding
> to those pages are to be deleted, it is benefical to directly release
> those pages, no matter they are dirty or not, except the ordered case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Wang <liwang@...ntukylin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yunchuan Wen <yunchuanwen@...ntukylin.com>
> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
If I remember correctly, Ted and Dmirty only answer your question about
this problem, but they don't review the patch. So don't add
"Reviewed-by", please.
> ---
> fs/ext4/inode.c | 21 ++++++++++-------
> fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> include/linux/jbd2.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> index 0723774..3e00360 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
> @@ -3578,6 +3578,16 @@ int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static inline int ext4_begin_ordered_fallocate(struct inode *inode,
> + loff_t start, loff_t length)
> +{
> + if (!EXT4_I(inode)->jinode)
> + return 0;
> + return jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_fallocate(EXT4_JOURNAL(inode),
> + EXT4_I(inode)->jinode,
> + start, length);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * ext4_punch_hole: punches a hole in a file by releaseing the blocks
> * associated with the given offset and length
> @@ -3611,17 +3621,12 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t length)
>
> trace_ext4_punch_hole(inode, offset, length);
>
> - /*
> - * Write out all dirty pages to avoid race conditions
> - * Then release them.
> - */
> - if (mapping->nrpages && mapping_tagged(mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY)) {
> - ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(mapping, offset,
> - offset + length - 1);
> + if (ext4_should_order_data(inode)) {
> + ret = ext4_begin_ordered_fallocate(inode, offset, length);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> }
> -
> +
> mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
I am wondering if we need to call ext4_begin_ordered_fallocate() after
i_mutex is taken. Otherwise we can not prevent other buffered writes to
redirty this range of pages.
> /* It's not possible punch hole on append only file */
> if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) {
> diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> index 10f524c..1284e1b 100644
> --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
> @@ -2305,6 +2305,36 @@ done:
> return 0;
> }
>
> +
> +static int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_discard(journal_t *journal,
> + struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
> + loff_t start, loff_t end)
> +{
> + transaction_t *inode_trans, *commit_trans;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + /* This is a quick check to avoid locking if not necessary */
> + if (!jinode->i_transaction)
> + goto out;
> + /* Locks are here just to force reading of recent values, it is
> + * enough that the transaction was not committing before we started
> + * a transaction adding the inode to orphan list */
> + read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + commit_trans = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> + read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> + inode_trans = jinode->i_transaction;
> + spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> + if (inode_trans == commit_trans) {
> + ret = filemap_fdatawrite_range(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping,
> + start, end);
> + if (ret)
> + jbd2_journal_abort(journal, ret);
> + }
> +out:
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * File truncate and transaction commit interact with each other in a
> * non-trivial way. If a transaction writing data block A is
> @@ -2329,27 +2359,15 @@ int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(journal_t *journal,
> struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
> loff_t new_size)
> {
> - transaction_t *inode_trans, *commit_trans;
> - int ret = 0;
> + return jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_discard(journal, jinode,
> + new_size, LLONG_MAX);
Coding style problem. Before you submit a patch, you could use
$LINUX/scripts/checkpatch.pl to check your patch in order to make sure
whether it is ready for submission or not.
> +}
>
> - /* This is a quick check to avoid locking if not necessary */
> - if (!jinode->i_transaction)
> - goto out;
> - /* Locks are here just to force reading of recent values, it is
> - * enough that the transaction was not committing before we started
> - * a transaction adding the inode to orphan list */
> - read_lock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - commit_trans = journal->j_committing_transaction;
> - read_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
> - spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> - inode_trans = jinode->i_transaction;
> - spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
> - if (inode_trans == commit_trans) {
> - ret = filemap_fdatawrite_range(jinode->i_vfs_inode->i_mapping,
> - new_size, LLONG_MAX);
> - if (ret)
> - jbd2_journal_abort(journal, ret);
> - }
> -out:
> - return ret;
> +int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_fallocate(journal_t *journal,
> + struct jbd2_inode *jinode,
> + loff_t start, loff_t length)
> +{
> + return jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_discard(journal, jinode,
> + start, start + length - 1);
The same as above.
Regards,
- Zheng
> }
> +
> diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> index 6e051f4..9940cfb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
> +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
> @@ -1128,6 +1128,8 @@ extern int jbd2_journal_force_commit(journal_t *);
> extern int jbd2_journal_file_inode(handle_t *handle, struct jbd2_inode *inode);
> extern int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate(journal_t *journal,
> struct jbd2_inode *inode, loff_t new_size);
> +extern int jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_fallocate(journal_t *journal,
> + struct jbd2_inode *inode, loff_t start, loff_t length);
> extern void jbd2_journal_init_jbd_inode(struct jbd2_inode *jinode, struct inode *inode);
> extern void jbd2_journal_release_jbd_inode(journal_t *journal, struct jbd2_inode *jinode);
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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