1. 17 Apr, 2008 1 commit
    • Josef Bacik's avatar
      jbd2: fix the way the b_modified flag is cleared · 9fc7c63a
      Josef Bacik authored
      Currently at the start of a journal commit we loop through all of the buffers
      on the committing transaction and clear the b_modified flag (the flag that is
      set when a transaction modifies the buffer) under the j_list_lock.
      
      The problem is that everywhere else this flag is modified only under the jbd2
      lock buffer flag, so it will race with a running transaction who could
      potentially set it, and have it unset by the committing transaction.
      
      This is also a big waste, you can have several thousands of buffers that you
      are clearing the modified flag on when you may not need to.  This patch
      removes this code and instead clears the b_modified flag upon entering
      do_get_write_access/journal_get_create_access, so if that transaction does
      indeed use the buffer then it will be accounted for properly, and if it does
      not then we know we didn't use it.
      
      That will be important for the next patch in this series.  Tested thoroughly
      by myself using postmark/iozone/bonnie++.
      
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      9fc7c63a
  2. 29 Apr, 2008 39 commits