linux/fs/xfs/xfs_trans_priv.h
Christoph Hellwig 0030807c66 xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing
Currently we have a few issues with the way the workqueue code is used to
implement AIL pushing:

 - it accidentally uses the same workqueue as the syncer action, and thus
   can be prevented from running if there are enough sync actions active
   in the system.
 - it doesn't use the HIGHPRI flag to queue at the head of the queue of
   work items

At this point I'm not confident enough in getting all the workqueue flags and
tweaks right to provide a perfectly reliable execution context for AIL
pushing, which is the most important piece in XFS to make forward progress
when the log fills.

Revert back to use a kthread per filesystem which fixes all the above issues
at the cost of having a task struct and stack around for each mounted
filesystem.  In addition this also gives us much better ways to diagnose
any issues involving hung AIL pushing and removes a small amount of code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 11:02:49 -05:00

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#ifndef __XFS_TRANS_PRIV_H__
#define __XFS_TRANS_PRIV_H__
struct xfs_log_item;
struct xfs_log_item_desc;
struct xfs_mount;
struct xfs_trans;
struct xfs_ail;
struct xfs_log_vec;
void xfs_trans_add_item(struct xfs_trans *, struct xfs_log_item *);
void xfs_trans_del_item(struct xfs_log_item *);
void xfs_trans_free_items(struct xfs_trans *tp, xfs_lsn_t commit_lsn,
int flags);
void xfs_trans_unreserve_and_mod_sb(struct xfs_trans *tp);
void xfs_trans_committed_bulk(struct xfs_ail *ailp, struct xfs_log_vec *lv,
xfs_lsn_t commit_lsn, int aborted);
/*
* AIL traversal cursor.
*
* Rather than using a generation number for detecting changes in the ail, use
* a cursor that is protected by the ail lock. The aild cursor exists in the
* struct xfs_ail, but other traversals can declare it on the stack and link it
* to the ail list.
*
* When an object is deleted from or moved int the AIL, the cursor list is
* searched to see if the object is a designated cursor item. If it is, it is
* deleted from the cursor so that the next time the cursor is used traversal
* will return to the start.
*
* This means a traversal colliding with a removal will cause a restart of the
* list scan, rather than any insertion or deletion anywhere in the list. The
* low bit of the item pointer is set if the cursor has been invalidated so
* that we can tell the difference between invalidation and reaching the end
* of the list to trigger traversal restarts.
*/
struct xfs_ail_cursor {
struct list_head list;
struct xfs_log_item *item;
};
/*
* Private AIL structures.
*
* Eventually we need to drive the locking in here as well.
*/
struct xfs_ail {
struct xfs_mount *xa_mount;
struct task_struct *xa_task;
struct list_head xa_ail;
xfs_lsn_t xa_target;
struct list_head xa_cursors;
spinlock_t xa_lock;
xfs_lsn_t xa_last_pushed_lsn;
};
/*
* From xfs_trans_ail.c
*/
void xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur,
struct xfs_log_item **log_items, int nr_items,
xfs_lsn_t lsn) __releases(ailp->xa_lock);
static inline void
xfs_trans_ail_update(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_log_item *lip,
xfs_lsn_t lsn) __releases(ailp->xa_lock)
{
xfs_trans_ail_update_bulk(ailp, NULL, &lip, 1, lsn);
}
void xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_log_item **log_items, int nr_items)
__releases(ailp->xa_lock);
static inline void
xfs_trans_ail_delete(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_log_item_t *lip) __releases(ailp->xa_lock)
{
xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk(ailp, &lip, 1);
}
void xfs_ail_push(struct xfs_ail *, xfs_lsn_t);
void xfs_ail_push_all(struct xfs_ail *);
xfs_lsn_t xfs_ail_min_lsn(struct xfs_ail *ailp);
void xfs_trans_unlocked_item(struct xfs_ail *,
xfs_log_item_t *);
struct xfs_log_item * xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur,
xfs_lsn_t lsn);
struct xfs_log_item * xfs_trans_ail_cursor_last(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur,
xfs_lsn_t lsn);
struct xfs_log_item * xfs_trans_ail_cursor_next(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur);
void xfs_trans_ail_cursor_done(struct xfs_ail *ailp,
struct xfs_ail_cursor *cur);
#if BITS_PER_LONG != 64
static inline void
xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_lsn_t *dst,
xfs_lsn_t *src)
{
ASSERT(sizeof(xfs_lsn_t) == 8); /* don't lock if it shrinks */
spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
*dst = *src;
spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
}
#else
static inline void
xfs_trans_ail_copy_lsn(
struct xfs_ail *ailp,
xfs_lsn_t *dst,
xfs_lsn_t *src)
{
ASSERT(sizeof(xfs_lsn_t) == 8);
*dst = *src;
}
#endif
#endif /* __XFS_TRANS_PRIV_H__ */