parts rather than use vop_{read,write}_args. Access to these
functions will ultimately not be available through the
"vop_{read,write}+IO_EXT" API but this functionality is retained
for debugging purposes for now.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
UFS only thing, and FFS should in principle not know if it is enabled
or not.
This commit cleans ffs_vnops.c for such knowledge, but not ffs_vfsops.c
Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
these in the main filesystems. This does not change the resulting code
but makes the source a little bit more grepable.
Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
- v_vflag is protected by the vnode lock and is used when synchronization
with VOP calls is needed.
- v_iflag is protected by interlock and is used for dealing with vnode
management issues. These flags include X/O LOCK, FREE, DOOMED, etc.
- All accesses to v_iflag and v_vflag have either been locked or marked with
mp_fixme's.
- Many ASSERT_VOP_LOCKED calls have been added where the locking was not
clear.
- Many functions in vfs_subr.c were restructured to provide for stronger
locking.
Idea stolen from: BSD/OS
As this code is not actually used by any of the existing
interfaces, it seems unlikely to break anything (famous
last words).
The internal kernel interface to manipulate these attributes
is invoked using two new IO_ flags: IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT.
These flags may be specified in the ioflags word of VOP_READ,
VOP_WRITE, and VOP_TRUNCATE. Specifying IO_NORMAL means that
you want to do I/O to the normal data part of the file and
IO_EXT means that you want to do I/O to the extended attributes
part of the file. IO_NORMAL and IO_EXT are mutually exclusive
for VOP_READ and VOP_WRITE, but may be specified individually
or together in the case of VOP_TRUNCATE. For example, when
removing a file, VOP_TRUNCATE is called with both IO_NORMAL
and IO_EXT set. For backward compatibility, if neither IO_NORMAL
nor IO_EXT is set, then IO_NORMAL is assumed.
Note that the BA_ and IO_ flags have been `merged' so that they
may both be used in the same flags word. This merger is possible
by assigning the IO_ flags to the low sixteen bits and the BA_
flags the high sixteen bits. This works because the high sixteen
bits of the IO_ word is reserved for read-ahead and help with
write clustering so will never be used for flags. This merge
lets us get away from code of the form:
if (ioflags & IO_SYNC)
flags |= BA_SYNC;
For the future, I have considered adding a new field to the
vattr structure, va_extsize. This addition could then be
exported through the stat structure to allow applications to
find out the size of the extended attribute storage and also
would provide a more standard interface for truncating them
(via VOP_SETATTR rather than VOP_TRUNCATE).
I am also contemplating adding a pathconf parameter (for
concreteness, lets call it _PC_MAX_EXTSIZE) which would
let an application determine the maximum size of the extended
atribute storage.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
direct calls for the two places where the kernel calls into soft
updates code. Set up the hooks in softdep_initialize() and NULL
them out in softdep_uninitialize(). This change allows soft updates
to function correctly when ufs is loaded as a module.
Reviewed by: mckusick
module. This adds an ffs_uninit() function that calls ufs_uninit()
and also calls a new softdep_uninitialize() function. Add a stub
for softdep_uninitialize() to cover the non-SOFTUPDATES case.
Reviewed by: mckusick
imposed by the filesystem structure itself remains. With 16k blocks,
the maximum file size is now just over 128TB.
For now, the UFS1 file size limit is left unchanged so as to remain
consistent with RELENG_4, but it too could be removed in the future.
Reviewed by: mckusick
out of inodes in a cylinder group would fail to check for
free inodes in other cylinder groups. This bug was introduced
in the UFS2 code merge two days ago.
An inode is allocated by calling ffs_valloc which calls
ffs_hashalloc to do the filesystem scan. Ffs_hashalloc
walks around the cylinder groups calling its passed allocator
(ffs_nodealloccg in this case) until the allocator returns a
non-zero result. The bug is that ffs_hashalloc expects the
passed allocator function to return a 64-bit ufs2_daddr_t.
When allocating inodes, it calls ffs_nodealloccg which was
returning a 32-bit ino_t. The ffs_hashalloc code checked
a 64-bit return value and usually found random non-zero bits in
the high 32-bits so decided that the allocation had succeeded
(in this case in the only cylinder group that it checked).
When the result was passed back to ffs_valloc it looked at
only the bottom 32-bits, saw zero and declared the system
out of inodes. But ffs_hashalloc had really only checked
one cylinder group.
The fix is to change ffs_nodealloccg to return 64-bit results.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Submitted by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Reviewed by: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org>
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.
Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.
Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
vnode creation globaly, we allow processes to create vnodes concurently.
In case of concurent creation of vnode for the one ino, we allow processes
to race and then check who wins.
Assuming that concurent creation of vnode for same ino is really rare case,
this is belived to be an improvement, as it just allows concurent creation
of vnodes.
Idea by: bp
Reviewed by: dillon
MFC after: 1 month
most cases NULL is passed, but in some cases such as network driver locks
(which use the MTX_NETWORK_LOCK macro) and UMA zone locks, a name is used.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
general cleanup of the API. The entire API now consists of two functions
similar to the pre-KSE API. The suser() function takes a thread pointer
as its only argument. The td_ucred member of this thread must be valid
so the only valid thread pointers are curthread and a few kernel threads
such as thread0. The suser_cred() function takes a pointer to a struct
ucred as its first argument and an integer flag as its second argument.
The flag is currently only used for the PRISON_ROOT flag.
Discussed on: smp@
provided the latter is nonzero. At this point, the former is a fairly
arbitrary default value (DFTPHYS), so changing it to any reasonable
value specified by the device driver is safe. Using the maximum of
these limits broke ffs clustered i/o for devices whose si_iosize_max
is < DFLTPHYS. Using the minimum would break device drivers' ability
to increase the active limit from DFTLPHYS up to MAXPHYS.
Copied the code for this and the associated (unnecessary?) fixup of
mp_iosize_max to all other filesystems that use clustering (ext2fs and
msdosfs). It was completely missing.
PR: 36309
MFC-after: 1 week
locking flags when acquiring a vnode. The immediate purpose is
to allow polling lock requests (LK_NOWAIT) needed by soft updates
to avoid deadlock when enlisting other processes to help with
the background cleanup. For the future it will allow the use of
shared locks for read access to vnodes. This change touches a
lot of files as it affects most filesystems within the system.
It has been well tested on FFS, loopback, and CD-ROM filesystems.
only lightly on the others, so if you find a problem there, please
let me (mckusick@mckusick.com) know.
the bio and buffer structures to have daddr64_t bio_pblkno,
b_blkno, and b_lblkno fields which allows access to disks
larger than a Terabyte in size. This change also requires
that the VOP_BMAP vnode operation accept and return daddr64_t
blocks. This delta should not affect system operation in
any way. It merely sets up the necessary interfaces to allow
the development of disk drivers that work with these larger
disk block addresses. It also allows for the development of
UFS2 which will use 64-bit block addresses.
read-only.
The trouble here is that we don't reopen the device in read/write mode
when we remount in read/write mode resulting in a filesystem sending
write requests to a device which was only opened read/only.
I'm not quite sure how such a reopen would best be done and defer
the problem to more agile hackers.
and isn't strictly required. However, it lowers the number of false
positives found when grep'ing the kernel sources for p_ucred to ensure
proper locking.
inode'' panic. This change corrects that problem by setting the
fs_active flag when the inode map changes to notify the snapshot
code that the cylinder group must be rescanned.
Submitted by: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
without being reclaimed. This bug was introduced in revision 1.95
dealing with filenames placed in newly allocated directory blocks,
thus is not present in 4.X systems. The bug is triggered when a
new entry is made in a directory after the data block containing
the original new entry has been written, but before the inode
that references the data block has been written.
Submitted by: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
been unlinked (e.g., with a zero link count). We have to expunge
all trace of these files from the snapshot so that they are neither
reclaimed prematurely by fsck nor saved unnecessarily by dump.
which small and/or nearly full filesystems would fail with `file
system full' messages when trying to replace a number of existing
files (for example during a system installation). When the allocation
routines are about to fail with a file system full condition, they
make a call to softdep_request_cleanup() which attempts to accelerate
the flushing of pending deletion requests in an effort to free up
space. In the face of filesystem I/O requests that exceed the
available disk transfer capacity, the cleanup request could take
an unbounded amount of time. Thus, the softdep_request_cleanup()
routine will only try for tickdelay seconds (default 2 seconds)
before giving up and returning a filesystem full error. Under typical
conditions, the softdep_request_cleanup() routine is able to free
up space in under fifty milliseconds.
which caused incomplete snapshots to be taken. When background
fsck would run on these snapshots, the result would be files
being incorrectly released which would subsequently panic the
kernel with ``handle_workitem_freefile: inodedep survived'',
``handle_written_inodeblock: live inodedep'', and
``handle_workitem_remove: lost inodedep'' errors.
involving file removal or file update were not always being fully
committed to disk. The result was lost files or corrupted file data.
This change ensures that the filesystem is properly synced to disk
before the filesystem is down-graded.
This delta also fixes a long standing bug in which a file open for
reading has been unlinked. When the last open reference to the file
is closed, the inode is reclaimed by the filesystem. Previously,
if the filesystem had been down-graded to read-only, the inode could
not be reclaimed, and thus was lost and had to be later recovered
by fsck. With this change, such files are found at the time of the
down-grade. Normally they will result in the filesystem down-grade
failing with `device busy'. If a forcible down-grade is done, then
the affected files will be revoked causing the inode to be released
and the open file descriptors to begin failing on attempts to read.
Submitted by: "Sam Leffler" <sam@errno.com>
Seigo Tanimura (tanimura) posted the initial delta.
I've polished it quite a bit reducing the need for locking and
adapting it for KSE.
Locks:
1 mutex in each filedesc
protects all the fields.
protects "struct file" initialization, while a struct file
is being changed from &badfileops -> &pipeops or something
the filedesc should be locked.
1 mutex in each struct file
protects the refcount fields.
doesn't protect anything else.
the flags used for garbage collection have been moved to
f_gcflag which was the FILLER short, this doesn't need
locking because the garbage collection is a single threaded
container.
could likely be made to use a pool mutex.
1 sx lock for the global filelist.
struct file * fhold(struct file *fp);
/* increments reference count on a file */
struct file * fhold_locked(struct file *fp);
/* like fhold but expects file to locked */
struct file * ffind_hold(struct thread *, int fd);
/* finds the struct file in thread, adds one reference and
returns it unlocked */
struct file * ffind_lock(struct thread *, int fd);
/* ffind_hold, but returns file locked */
I still have to smp-safe the fget cruft, I'll get to that asap.
lost if some other process uses the lock while we are sleeping. We
restore it after we have slept. This functionality is provided by
a new routine interlocked_sleep() that wraps the interlocking with
functions that sleep. This function is then used in place of the
old ACQUIRE_LOCK_INTERLOCKED() and FREE_LOCK_INTERLOCKED() macros.
Submitted by: Debbie Chu <dchu@juniper.net>
in softdep_sync_metadata(). Otherwise we may miss dependencies
that need to be flushed which will result in a later panic
with the message ``vinvalbuf: dirty bufs''.
Submitted by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
MFC after: 1 week
against VM_WAIT in the pageout code. Both fixes involve adjusting
the lockmgr's timeout capability so locks obtained with timeouts do not
interfere with locks obtained without a timeout.
Hopefully MFC: before the 4.5 release
superblock that is already set up to handle pointer types. This
fixes an accidental change in the superblock size on 64-bit platforms
caused by revision 1.24.
when taking a snapshot. The two time consuming operations are
scanning all the filesystem bitmaps to determine which blocks
are in use and scanning all the other snapshots so as to be able
to expunge their blocks from the view of the current snapshot.
The bitmap scanning is broken into two passes. Before suspending
the filesystem all bitmaps are scanned. After the suspension,
those bitmaps that changed after being scanned the first time
are rescanned. Typically there are few bitmaps that need to be
rescanned. The expunging of other snapshots is now done after
the suspension is released by observing that we can easily
identify any blocks that were allocated to them after the
suspension (they will be maked as `not needing to be copied'
in the just created snapshot). For all the gory details, see
the ``Running fsck in the Background'' paper in the Usenix
BSDCon 2002 Conference Proceedings, pages 55-64.
new file end will land in the middle of a file hole. Since the last
block of a file must always be allocated, the hole is filled by
allocating a block at that location. If the hole being filled is
a direct block, then the truncation may eventually reduce the
full sized block down to a fragment. When running with soft
updates, it is necessary to FSYNC the file after allocating the
block and before creating the fragment to avoid triggering a
soft updates inconsistency when the block unexpectedly shrinks.
Found by: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
MFC after: 1 week
real effect.
Optimize vfs_msync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. Improves looping case by 500%.
Optimize ffs_sync(). Avoid having to continually drop and re-obtain
mutexes when scanning the vnode list. This makes a couple of assumptions,
which I believe are ok, in regards to vnode stability when the mount list
mutex is held. Improves looping case by 500%.
(more optimization work is needed on top of these fixes)
MFC after: 1 week
- Move the SPECIAL_FLAG #define up next to the NOHOLDER #define and fix a
little nit that caused it to be defined as -(sizeof (struct thread) + 1)
instead of -2.
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.
Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)
Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org
X-MFC after: ha ha ha ha
an array "fs_contigdirs[]" to avoid too many directories getting
created in each cylinder group. The memory required for this and
two other arrays (fs_csp[] and fs_maxcluster[]) is allocated with
a single malloc() call, and divided up afterwards. However, the
'space' pointer is not advanced correctly, so fs_contigdirs and
fs_maxcluster end up pointing to the same address.
Add the missing code to advance the 'space' pointer, and remove
an unnecessary update of the pointer that follows.
This is likely to fix the "ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch" panics
that have been reported recently.
Submitted by: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
in got a bit broken, when ufs_extattr_stop() was called and failed,
ufs_extattr_destroy() would panic. This makes the call to destroy()
conditional on the success of stop().
Submitted by: Christian Carstensen <cc@devcon.net>
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
The symptom being treated in 1.98 was to avoid freeing a
pagedep dependency if there was still a newdirblk dependency
referencing it. That change is correct and no longer prints
a warning message when it occurs. The other part of revision
1.98 was to panic when a newdirblk dependency was encountered
during a file truncation. This fix removes that panic and
replaces it with code to find and delete the newdirblk
dependency so that the truncation can succeed.
incorrect due to a missing check for some dependency. This change
avoids the freelist corruption (but not the temporarily inconsistent
state of the file system).
A message is printed as a reminder of the under lying problem when a
pagedep structure is not freed due to the NEWBLOCK flag being set.
Submitted by: Tor.Egge@fast.no
committed to disk before clearing them. More specifically, when
free_newdirblk is called, we know that the inode claims the new
directory block. However, if the associated pagedep is still linked
onto the directory buffer dependency chain, then some of the entries
on the pd_pendinghd list may not be committed to disk yet. In this
case, we will simply note that the inode claims the block and let
the pd_pendinghd list be processed when the pagedep is next written.
If the pagedep is no longer on the buffer dependency chain, then
all the entries on the pd_pending list are committed to disk and
we can free them in free_newdirblk. This corrects a window of
vulnerability introduced in the code added in version 1.95.
whose name is within that block must ensure not only that the block
containing the file name has been written, but also that the on-disk
directory inode references that block. When a new directory block
is created, we allocate a newdirblk structure which is linked to
the associated allocdirect (on its ad_newdirblk list). When the
allocdirect has been satisfied, the newdirblk structure is moved
to the inodedep id_bufwait list of its directory to await the inode
being written. When the inode is written, the directory entries
are fully committed and can be deleted from their pagedep->id_pendinghd
and inodedep->id_pendinghd lists.
the number of references on the filesystem root vnode to be both
expected and released. Many filesystems hold an extra reference on
the filesystem root vnode, which must be accounted for when
determining if the filesystem is busy and then released if it isn't
busy. The old `skipvp' approach required individual filesystem
xxx_unmount functions to re-implement much of vflush()'s logic to
deal with the root vnode.
All 9 filesystems that hold an extra reference on the root vnode
got the logic wrong in the case of forced unmounts, so `umount -f'
would always fail if there were any extra root vnode references.
Fix this issue centrally in vflush(), now that we can.
This commit also fixes a vnode reference leak in devfs, which could
result in idle devfs filesystems that refuse to unmount.
Reviewed by: phk, bp
that are committed to being freed and reflect these blocks in the
counts returned by statfs (and thus also by the `df' command). This
change allows programs such as those that do news expiration to
know when to stop if they are trying to create a certain percentage
of free space. Note that this change does not solve the much harder
problem of making this to-be-freed space available to applications
that want it (thus on a nearly full filesystem, you may still
encounter out-of-space conditions even though the free space will
show up eventually). Hopefully this harder problem will be the
subject of a future enhancement.
1) Do not assume that the superblock will be of size fs->fs_bsize.
This fixes a panic when taking a snapshot on a filesystem with
a block size bigger than 8K.
2) Properly calculate the number of fragments that follow the
superblock summary information. This fixes a bug with inconsistent
snapshots.
3) When cleaning up a snapshot that is about to be removed, properly
calculate the number of blocks that need to be checked. This fixes
a bug that created partially allocated inodes.
4) When moving blocks from a snapshot that is about to be removed
to another snapshot, properly account for the reduced number of
blocks in the snapshot from which they are taken. This fixes a
bug in which the number of blocks released from a snapshot did not
match the number that it claimed to have.
by the inactive routine. Because the freeing causes the filesystem
to be modified, the close must be held up during periods when the
filesystem is suspended.
For snapshots to be consistent across crashes, they must write
blocks that they copy and claim those written blocks in their
on-disk block pointers before the old blocks that they referenced
can be allowed to be written.
Close a loophole that allowed unwritten blocks to be skipped when
doing ffs_sync with a request to wait for all I/O activity to be
completed.
to struct mount.
This makes the "struct netexport *" paramter to the vfs_export
and vfs_checkexport interface unneeded.
Consequently that all non-stacking filesystems can use
vfs_stdcheckexp().
At the same time, make it a pointer to a struct netexport
in struct mount, so that we can remove the bogus AF_MAX
and #include <net/radix.h> from <sys/mount.h>
fs_contigdirs, fs_avgfilesize and fs_avgfpdir. This could cause
panics if these fields were zeroed while a filesystem was mounted
read-only, and then remounted read-write.
Add code to ffs_reload() which copies the fs_contigdirs pointer
from the previous superblock, and reinitialises fs_avgf* if necessary.
Reviewed by: mckusick
sized blocks. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.bigcgs=1'.
Add debugging option to disable background writes of cylinder
groups. To enable this option, use: `sysctl -w debug.dobkgrdwrite=0'.
These debugging options should be tried on systems that are panicing
with corrupted cylinder group maps to see if it makes the problem
go away. The set of panics in question are:
ffs_clusteralloc: map mismatch
ffs_nodealloccg: map corrupted
ffs_nodealloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccg: map corrupted
ffs_alloccg: block not in map
ffs_alloccgblk: cyl groups corrupted
ffs_alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
ffs_checkblk: partially free fragment
The following panics are less likely to be related to this problem,
but might be helped by these debugging options:
ffs_valloc: dup alloc
ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
ffs_blkfree: freeing free frag
ffs_vfree: freeing free inode
If you try these options, please report whether they helped reduce your
bitmap corruption panics to Kirk McKusick at <mckusick@mckusick.com>
and to Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>.
It is described in ufs/ffs/fs.h as follows:
/*
* Filesystem flags.
*
* Note that the FS_NEEDSFSCK flag is set and cleared only by the
* fsck utility. It is set when background fsck finds an unexpected
* inconsistency which requires a traditional foreground fsck to be
* run. Such inconsistencies should only be found after an uncorrectable
* disk error. A foreground fsck will clear the FS_NEEDSFSCK flag when
* it has successfully cleaned up the filesystem. The kernel uses this
* flag to enforce that inconsistent filesystems be mounted read-only.
*/
#define FS_UNCLEAN 0x01 /* filesystem not clean at mount */
#define FS_DOSOFTDEP 0x02 /* filesystem using soft dependencies */
#define FS_NEEDSFSCK 0x04 /* filesystem needs sync fsck before mount */
His description of the problem and solution follow. My own tests show
speedups on typical filesystem intensive workloads of 5% to 12% which
is very impressive considering the small amount of code change involved.
------
One day I noticed that some file operations run much faster on
small file systems then on big ones. I've looked at the ffs
algorithms, thought about them, and redesigned the dirpref algorithm.
First I want to describe the results of my tests. These results are old
and I have improved the algorithm after these tests were done. Nevertheless
they show how big the perfomance speedup may be. I have done two file/directory
intensive tests on a two OpenBSD systems with old and new dirpref algorithm.
The first test is "tar -xzf ports.tar.gz", the second is "rm -rf ports".
The ports.tar.gz file is the ports collection from the OpenBSD 2.8 release.
It contains 6596 directories and 13868 files. The test systems are:
1. Celeron-450, 128Mb, two IDE drives, the system at wd0, file system for
test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 8 Gb, number of cg=991,
size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k OpenBSD-current
from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=35
2. PIII-600, 128Mb, two IBM DTLA-307045 IDE drives at i815e, the system
at wd0, file system for test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 40 Gb,
number of cg=5324, size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k
OpenBSD-current from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=50
You can get more info about the test systems and methods at:
http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html
Test Results
tar -xzf ports.tar.gz rm -rf ports
mode old dirpref new dirpref speedup old dirprefnew dirpref speedup
First system
normal 667 472 1.41 477 331 1.44
async 285 144 1.98 130 14 9.29
sync 768 616 1.25 477 334 1.43
softdep 413 252 1.64 241 38 6.34
Second system
normal 329 81 4.06 263.5 93.5 2.81
async 302 25.7 11.75 112 2.26 49.56
sync 281 57.0 4.93 263 90.5 2.9
softdep 341 40.6 8.4 284 4.76 59.66
"old dirpref" and "new dirpref" columns give a test time in seconds.
speedup - speed increasement in times, ie. old dirpref / new dirpref.
------
Algorithm description
The old dirpref algorithm is described in comments:
/*
* Find a cylinder to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to select from
* among those cylinder groups with above the average number of
* free inodes, the one with the smallest number of directories.
*/
A new directory is allocated in a different cylinder groups than its
parent directory resulting in a directory tree that is spreaded across
all the cylinder groups. This spreading out results in a non-optimal
access to the directories and files. When we have a small filesystem
it is not a problem but when the filesystem is big then perfomance
degradation becomes very apparent.
What I mean by a big file system ?
1. A big filesystem is a filesystem which occupy 20-30 or more percent
of total drive space, i.e. first and last cylinder are physically
located relatively far from each other.
2. It has a relatively large number of cylinder groups, for example
more cylinder groups than 50% of the buffers in the buffer cache.
The first results in long access times, while the second results in
many buffers being used by metadata operations. Such operations use
cylinder group blocks and on-disk inode blocks. The cylinder group
block (fs->fs_cblkno) contains struct cg, inode and block bit maps.
It is 2k in size for the default filesystem parameters. If new and
parent directories are located in different cylinder groups then the
system performs more input/output operations and uses more buffers.
On filesystems with many cylinder groups, lots of cache buffers are
used for metadata operations.
My solution for this problem is very simple. I allocate many directories
in one cylinder group. I also do some things, so that the new allocation
method does not cause excessive fragmentation and all directory inodes
will not be located at a location far from its file's inodes and data.
The algorithm is:
/*
* Find a cylinder group to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to allocate a
* directory inode in the same cylinder group as its parent
* directory, but also to reserve space for its files inodes
* and data. Restrict the number of directories which may be
* allocated one after another in the same cylinder group
* without intervening allocation of files.
*
* If we allocate a first level directory then force allocation
* in another cylinder group.
*/
My early versions of dirpref give me a good results for a wide range of
file operations and different filesystem capacities except one case:
those applications that create their entire directory structure first
and only later fill this structure with files.
My solution for such and similar cases is to limit a number of
directories which may be created one after another in the same cylinder
group without intervening file creations. For this purpose, I allocate
an array of counters at mount time. This array is linked to the superblock
fs->fs_contigdirs[cg]. Each time a directory is created the counter
increases and each time a file is created the counter decreases. A 60Gb
filesystem with 8mb/cg requires 10kb of memory for the counters array.
The maxcontigdirs is a maximum number of directories which may be created
without an intervening file creation. I found in my tests that the best
performance occurs when I restrict the number of directories in one cylinder
group such that all its files may be located in the same cylinder group.
There may be some deterioration in performance if all the file inodes
are in the same cylinder group as its containing directory, but their
data partially resides in a different cylinder group. The maxcontigdirs
value is calculated to try to prevent this condition. Since there is
no way to know how many files and directories will be allocated later
I added two optimization parameters in superblock/tunefs. They are:
int32_t fs_avgfilesize; /* expected average file size */
int32_t fs_avgfpdir; /* expected # of files per directory */
These parameters have reasonable defaults but may be tweeked for special
uses of a filesystem. They are only necessary in rare cases like better
tuning a filesystem being used to store a squid cache.
I have been using this algorithm for about 3 months. I have done
a lot of testing on filesystems with different capacities, average
filesize, average number of files per directory, and so on. I think
this algorithm has no negative impact on filesystem perfomance. It
works better than the default one in all cases. The new dirpref
will greatly improve untarring/removing/coping of big directories,
decrease load on cvs servers and much more. The new dirpref doesn't
speedup a compilation process, but also doesn't slow it down.
Obtained from: Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>
(as is done in unmount).
Remove a snapshot inode from the superblock list when its last
name goes away rather than when its last reference goes away.
That way it will be properly reclaimed by fsck after a crash
rather than reenabled when the filesystem is mounted.
options UFS_EXTATTR and UFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART respectively. This change
reflects the fact that our EA support is implemented entirely at the
UFS layer (modulo FFS start/stop/autostart hooks for mount and unmount
events). This also better reflects the fact that [shortly] MFS will also
support EAs, as well as possibly IFS.
o Consumers of the EA support in FFS are reminded that as a result, they
must change kernel config files to reflect the new option names.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
"options FFS_EXTATTR". When extended attribute auto-starting
is enabled, FFS will scan the .attribute directory off of the
root of each file system, as it is mounted. If .attribute
exists, EA support will be started for the file system. If
there are files in the directory, FFS will attempt to start
them as attribute backing files for attributes baring the same
name. All attributes are started before access to the file
system is permitted, so this permits race-free enabling of
attributes. For attributes backing support for security
features, such as ACLs, MAC, Capabilities, this is vital, as
it prevents the file system attributes from getting out of
sync as a result of file system operations between mount-time
and the enabling of the extended attribute. The userland
extattrctl tool will still function exactly as previously.
Files must be placed directly in .attribute, which must be
directly off of the file system root: symbolic links are
not permitted. FFS_EXTATTR will continue to be able
to function without FFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART for sites that do not
want/require auto-starting. If you're using the UFS_ACL code
available from www.TrustedBSD.org, using FFS_EXTATTR_AUTOSTART
is recommended.
o This support is implemented by adding an invocation of
ufs_extattr_autostart() to ffs_mountfs(). In addition,
several new supporting calls are introduced in
ufs_extattr.c:
ufs_extattr_autostart(): start EAs on the specified mount
ufs_extattr_lookup(): given a directory and filename,
return the vnode for the file.
ufs_extattr_enable_with_open(): invoke ufs_extattr_enable()
after doing the equililent of vn_open()
on the passed file.
ufs_extattr_iterate_directory(): iterate over a directory,
invoking ufs_extattr_lookup() and
ufs_extattr_enable_with_open() on each
entry.
o This feature is not widely tested, and therefore may contain
bugs, caution is advised. Several changes are in the pipeline
for this feature, including breaking out of EA namespaces into
subdirectories of .attribute (this is waiting on the updated
EA API), as well as a per-filesystem flag indicating whether
or not EAs should be auto-started. This is required because
administrators may not want .attribute auto-started on all
file systems, especially if non-administrators have write access
to the root of a file system.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
structure rather than assuming that the device vnode would reside
in the FFS filesystem (which is obviously a broken assumption with
the device filesystem).
An initial tidyup of the mount() syscall and VFS mount code.
This code replaces the earlier work done by jlemon in an attempt to
make linux_mount() work.
* the guts of the mount work has been moved into vfs_mount().
* move `type', `path' and `flags' from being userland variables into being
kernel variables in vfs_mount(). `data' remains a pointer into
userspace.
* Attempt to verify the `type' and `path' strings passed to vfs_mount()
aren't too long.
* rework mount() and linux_mount() to take the userland parameters
(besides data, as mentioned) and pass kernel variables to vfs_mount().
(linux_mount() already did this, I've just tidied it up a little more.)
* remove the copyin*() stuff for `path'. `data' still requires copyin*()
since its a pointer into userland.
* set `mount->mnt_statf_mntonname' in vfs_mount() rather than in each
filesystem. This variable is generally initialised with `path', and
each filesystem can override it if they want to.
* NOTE: f_mntonname is intiailised with "/" in the case of a root mount.
that was introduced in revision 1.80. The problem manifested
itself with a `locking against myself' panic and could also
result in soft updates inconsistences associated with inodedeps.
The two problems are:
1) One of the background operations could manipulate the bitmap
while holding it locked with intent to create. This held lock
results in a `locking against myself' panic, when the background
processing that we have been coopted to do tries to lock the bitmap
which we are already holding locked. To understand how to fix this
problem, first, observe that we can do the background cleanups in
inodedep_lookup only when allocating inodedeps (DEPALLOC is set in
the call to inodedep_lookup). Second observe that calls to
inodedep_lookup with DEPALLOC set can only happen from the following
calls into the softdep code:
softdep_setup_inomapdep
softdep_setup_allocdirect
softdep_setup_remove
softdep_setup_freeblocks
softdep_setup_directory_change
softdep_setup_directory_add
softdep_change_linkcnt
Only the first two of these can come from ffs_alloc.c while holding
a bitmap locked. Thus, inodedep_lookup must not go off to do
request_cleanups when being called from these functions. This change
adds a flag, NODELAY, that can be passed to inodedep_lookup to let
it know that it should not do background processing in those cases.
2) The return value from request_cleanup when helping out with the
cleanup was 0 instead of 1. This meant that despite the fact that
we may have slept while doing the cleanups, the code did not recheck
for the appearance of an inodedep (e.g., goto top in inodedep_lookup).
This lead to the softdep inconsistency in which we ended up with
two inodedep's for the same inode.
Reviewed by: Peter Wemm <peter@yahoo-inc.com>,
Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
- All processes go into the same array of queues, with different
scheduling classes using different portions of the array. This
allows user processes to have their priorities propogated up into
interrupt thread range if need be.
- I chose 64 run queues as an arbitrary number that is greater than
32. We used to have 4 separate arrays of 32 queues each, so this
may not be optimal. The new run queue code was written with this
in mind; changing the number of run queues only requires changing
constants in runq.h and adjusting the priority levels.
- The new run queue code takes the run queue as a parameter. This
is intended to be used to create per-cpu run queues. Implement
wrappers for compatibility with the old interface which pass in
the global run queue structure.
- Group the priority level, user priority, native priority (before
propogation) and the scheduling class into a struct priority.
- Change any hard coded priority levels that I found to use
symbolic constants (TTIPRI and TTOPRI).
- Remove the curpriority global variable and use that of curproc.
This was used to detect when a process' priority had lowered and
it should yield. We now effectively yield on every interrupt.
- Activate propogate_priority(). It should now have the desired
effect without needing to also propogate the scheduling class.
- Temporarily comment out the call to vm_page_zero_idle() in the
idle loop. It interfered with propogate_priority() because
the idle process needed to do a non-blocking acquire of Giant
and then other processes would try to propogate their priority
onto it. The idle process should not do anything except idle.
vm_page_zero_idle() will return in the form of an idle priority
kernel thread which is woken up at apprioriate times by the vm
system.
- Update struct kinfo_proc to the new priority interface. Deliberately
change its size by adjusting the spare fields. It remained the same
size, but the layout has changed, so userland processes that use it
would parse the data incorrectly. The size constraint should really
be changed to an arbitrary version number. Also add a debug.sizeof
sysctl node for struct kinfo_proc.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:
mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)
similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:
mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.
The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.
Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:
MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH
The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:
mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.
Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.
Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.
Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.
Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.
Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
filesystem softdep_process_worklist() is called in a loop until it indicates
that no dependancies remain, but the determination of that fact depends on
there only being one softdep_process_worklist() instance running. It was
possible for the syncer to also be running softdep_process_worklist()
and the pre-existing checks in the code to prevent this were not sufficient
to prevent the race. This patch solves the problem.
Approved-by: mckusick
in-core pointers to summary information. An array in this region
(fs_csp) could overflow on filesystems with a very large number of
cylinder groups (~16000 on i386 with 8k blocks). When this happens,
other fields in the superblock get corrupted, and fsck refuses to
check the filesystem.
Solve this problem by replacing the fs_csp array in 'struct fs'
with a single pointer, and add padding to keep the length of the
128-byte region fixed. Update the kernel and userland utilities
to use just this single pointer.
With this change, the kernel no longer makes use of the superblock
fields 'fs_csshift' and 'fs_csmask'. Add a comment to newfs/mkfs.c
to indicate that these fields must be calculated for compatibility
with older kernels.
Reviewed by: mckusick
1) Be more tolerant of missing snapshot files by only trying to decrement
their reference count if they are registered as active.
2) Fix for snapshots of filesystems with block sizes larger than 8K
(from Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr>).
3) Fix to avoid losing last block in snapshot file when calculating blocks
that need to be copied (from Don Coleman <coleman@coleman.org>).
which fails to set the modification time on the file. The same
check a few lines later takes the correct action.
Submitted by: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
Previously, the syncer process was the only process in the
system that could process the soft updates background work
list. If enough other processes were adding requests to that
list, it would eventually grow without bound. Because some of
the work list requests require vnodes to be locked, it was
not generally safe to let random processes process the work
list while they already held vnodes locked. By adding a flag
to the work list queue processing function to indicate whether
the calling process could safely lock vnodes, it becomes possible
to co-opt other processes into helping out with the work list.
Now when the worklist gets too large, other processes can safely
help out by picking off those work requests that can be handled
without locking a vnode, leaving only the small number of
requests requiring a vnode lock for the syncer process. With
this change, it appears possible to keep even the nastiest
workloads under control.
Submitted by: Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
in the face of multiple processes doing massive numbers of filesystem
operations. While this patch will work in nearly all situations, there
are still some perverse workloads that can overwhelm the system.
Detecting and handling these perverse workloads will be the subject
of another patch.
Reviewed by: Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
Obtained from: Ethan Solomita <ethan@geocast.com>
Removed most of the hacks that were trying to deal with low-memory
situations prior to now.
The new code is based on the concept that I/O must be able to function in
a low memory situation. All major modules related to I/O (except
networking) have been adjusted to allow allocation out of the system
reserve memory pool. These modules now detect a low memory situation but
rather then block they instead continue to operate, then return resources
to the memory pool instead of cache them or leave them wired.
Code has been added to stall in a low-memory situation prior to a vnode
being locked.
Thus situations where a process blocks in a low-memory condition while
holding a locked vnode have been reduced to near nothing. Not only will
I/O continue to operate, but many prior deadlock conditions simply no
longer exist.
Implement a number of VFS/BIO fixes
(found by Ian): in biodone(), bogus-page replacement code, the loop
was not properly incrementing loop variables prior to a continue
statement. We do not believe this code can be hit anyway but we
aren't taking any chances. We'll turn the whole section into a
panic (as it already is in brelse()) after the release is rolled.
In biodone(), the foff calculation was incorrectly
clamped to the iosize, causing the wrong foff to be calculated
for pages in the case of an I/O error or biodone() called without
initiating I/O. The problem always caused a panic before. Now it
doesn't. The problem is mainly an issue with NFS.
Fixed casts for ~PAGE_MASK. This code worked properly before only
because the calculations use signed arithmatic. Better to properly
extend PAGE_MASK first before inverting it for the 64 bit masking
op.
In brelse(), the bogus_page fixup code was improperly throwing
away the original contents of 'm' when it did the j-loop to
fix the bogus pages. The result was that it would potentially
invalidate parts of the *WRONG* page(!), leading to corruption.
There may still be cases where a background bitmap write is
being duplicated, causing potential corruption. We have identified
a potentially serious bug related to this but the fix is still TBD.
So instead this patch contains a KASSERT to detect the problem
and panic the machine rather then continue to corrupt the filesystem.
The problem does not occur very often.. it is very hard to
reproduce, and it may or may not be the cause of the corruption
people have reported.
Review by: (VFS/BIO: mckusick, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>)
Testing by: (VM/Deadlock) Paul Saab <ps@yahoo-inc.com>
is to first write the deleted directory entry to disk, second write
the zero'ed inode to disk, and finally to release the freed blocks
and the inode back to the cylinder-group map. As this ordering
requires two disk writes to occur which are normally spaced about
30 seconds apart (except when memory is under duress), it takes
about a minute from the time that a file is deleted until its inode
and data blocks show up in the cylinder-group map for reallocation.
If a file has had only a brief lifetime (less than 30 seconds from
creation to deletion), neither its inode nor its directory entry
may have been written to disk. If its directory entry has not been
written to disk, then we need not wait for that directory block to
be written as the on-disk directory block does not reference the
inode. Similarly, if the allocated inode has never been written to
disk, we do not have to wait for it to be written back either as
its on-disk representation is still zero'ed out. Thus, in the case
of a short lived file, we can simply release the blocks and inode
to the cylinder-group map immediately. As the inode and its blocks
are released immediately, they are immediately available for other
uses. If they are not released for a minute, then other inodes and
blocks must be allocated for short lived files, cluttering up the
vnode and buffer caches. The previous code was a bit too aggressive
in trying to release the blocks and inode back to the cylinder-group
map resulting in their being made available when in fact the inode
on disk had not yet been zero'ed. This patch takes a more conservative
approach to doing the release which avoids doing the release prematurely.
description:
How it works:
--
Basically ifs is a copy of ffs, overriding some vfs/vnops. (Yes, hack.)
I didn't see the need in duplicating all of sys/ufs/ffs to get this
off the ground.
File creation is done through a special file - 'newfile' . When newfile
is called, the system allocates and returns an inode. Note that newfile
is done in a cloning fashion:
fd = open("newfile", O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644);
fstat(fd, &st);
printf("new file is %d\n", (int)st.st_ino);
Once you have created a file, you can open() and unlink() it by its returned
inode number retrieved from the stat call, ie:
fd = open("5", O_RDWR);
The creation permissions depend entirely if you have write access to the
root directory of the filesystem.
To get the list of currently allocated inodes, VOP_READDIR has been added
which returns a directory listing of those currently allocated.
--
What this entails:
* patching conf/files and conf/options to include IFS as a new compile
option (and since ifs depends upon FFS, include the FFS routines)
* An entry in i386/conf/NOTES indicating IFS exists and where to go for
an explanation
* Unstaticize a couple of routines in src/sys/ufs/ffs/ which the IFS
routines require (ffs_mount() and ffs_reload())
* a new bunch of routines in src/sys/ufs/ifs/ which implement the IFS
routines. IFS replaces some of the vfsops, and a handful of vnops -
most notably are VFS_VGET(), VOP_LOOKUP(), VOP_UNLINK() and VOP_READDIR().
Any other directory operation is marked as invalid.
What this results in:
* an IFS partition's create permissions are controlled by the perm/ownership of
the root mount point, just like a normal directory
* Each inode has perm and ownership too
* IFS does *NOT* mean an FFS partition can be opened per inode. This is a
completely seperate filesystem here
* Softupdates doesn't work with IFS, and really I don't think it needs it.
Besides, fsck's are FAST. (Try it :-)
* Inodes 0 and 1 aren't allocatable because they are special (dump/swap IIRC).
Inode 2 isn't allocatable since UFS/FFS locks all inodes in the system against
this particular inode, and unravelling THAT code isn't trivial. Therefore,
useful inodes start at 3.
Enjoy, and feedback is definitely appreciated!
it is defined whenm used in ufs_extattr_uepm_destroy(), fixing a panic
due to a NULL pointer dereference.
Submitted by: Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemicals.tacorp.com>
up lock on extattrs.
o Get for free a comment indicating where auto-starting of extended
attributes will eventually occur, as it was in my commit tree also.
No implementation change here, only a comment.
