GFS2: Clean up log write code path

Prior to this patch, we have two ways of sending i/o to the log.
One of those is used when we need to allocate both the data
to be written itself and also a buffer head to submit it. This
is done via sb_getblk and friends. This is used mostly for writing
log headers.

The other method is used when writing blocks which have some
in-place counterpart. This is the case for all the metadata
blocks which are journalled, and when journaled data is in use,
for unescaped journalled data blocks.

This patch replaces both of those two methods, and about half
a dozen separate i/o submission points with a single i/o
submission function. We also go direct to bio rather than
using buffer heads, since this allows us to build i/o
requests of the maximum size for the block device in
question. It also reduces the memory required for flushing
the log, which can be very useful in low memory situations.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Whitehouse
2012-04-16 09:28:31 +01:00
parent 2f7ee358e5
commit e8c92ed769
8 changed files with 270 additions and 178 deletions

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@@ -716,7 +716,9 @@ struct gfs2_sbd {
struct rw_semaphore sd_log_flush_lock;
atomic_t sd_log_in_flight;
struct bio *sd_log_bio;
wait_queue_head_t sd_log_flush_wait;
int sd_log_error;
unsigned int sd_log_flush_head;
u64 sd_log_flush_wrapped;