ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback

The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
blocks is committed.  Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
when blocks are allocated or freed.  A much better way of doing things
is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
to be freed directly to the transaction structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
This commit is contained in:
Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-16 20:00:24 -04:00
parent 22359f5745
commit 3e624fc72f
6 changed files with 29 additions and 75 deletions

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@@ -995,6 +995,9 @@ restart_loop:
}
spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock);
if (journal->j_commit_callback)
journal->j_commit_callback(journal, commit_transaction);
trace_mark(jbd2_end_commit, "dev %s transaction %d head %d",
journal->j_devname, commit_transaction->t_tid,
journal->j_tail_sequence);

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@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ jbd2_get_transaction(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction)
transaction->t_expires = jiffies + journal->j_commit_interval;
spin_lock_init(&transaction->t_handle_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&transaction->t_inode_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&transaction->t_private_list);
/* Set up the commit timer for the new transaction. */
journal->j_commit_timer.expires = round_jiffies(transaction->t_expires);