linux.git/fs/ext3/file.c, branch v2.6.22

[PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 1

2007-02-12T17:48:46+00:00

Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ext3: change uses of f_{dentry, vfsmnt} to use f_path

2006-12-08T16:28:41+00:00

Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the ext3
filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

2006-10-01T07:39:28+00:00

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods

2006-10-01T07:39:28+00:00

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Michael Holzheu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] BLOCK: Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext3 driver [try #6]

2006-09-30T18:52:29+00:00

Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff from fs/compat_ioctl.c to the Ext3
driver so that the Ext3 header file doesn't need to be included.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

[PATCH] ext3 and jbd cleanup: remove whitespace

2006-09-27T15:26:09+00:00

Remove whitespace from ext3 and jbd, before we clone ext4.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call

2006-03-30T20:28:18+00:00

This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).

From the splice.c comments:

   "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.

   This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
   an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
   buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.

   The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
   that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.

   Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
   Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
   bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const

2006-03-28T17:16:06+00:00

This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups

The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] convert ext3's truncate_sem to a mutex

2006-03-23T15:38:14+00:00

ext3's truncate_sem is always released in the same function it's taken
and it otherwise is a mutex as well..

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ext3: reduce allocate-with-reservation lock latencies

2005-06-29T04:20:35+00:00

Currently in ext3 block reservation code, the global filesystem reservation
tree lock (rsv_block) is hold during the process of searching for a space
to make a new reservation window, including while scaning the block bitmap
to verify if the avalible window has a free block.  Holding the lock during
bitmap scan is unnecessary and could possibly cause scalability issue and
latency issues.

This patch tries to address this by dropping the lock before scan the
bitmap.  Before that we need to reserve the open window in case someone
else is targetting at the same window.  Question was should we reserve the
whole free reservable space or just the window size we need.  Reserve the
whole free reservable space will possibly force other threads which
intended to do block allocation nearby move to another block group(cause
bad layout).  In this patch, we just reserve the desired size before drop
the lock and scan the block bitmap.  This patch fixed a ext3 reservation
latency issue seen on a cvs check out test.  Patch is tested with many fsx,
tiobench, dbench and untar a kernel test.

Signed-Off-By: Mingming Cao 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds