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Darrick J. Wong 4ed6435cc3 xfs: stop artificially limiting the length of bunmap calls 
In commit e1a4e37cc7, we clamped the length of bunmapi calls on the
data forks of shared files to avoid two failure scenarios: one where the
extent being unmapped is so sparsely shared that we exceed the
transaction reservation with the sheer number of refcount btree updates
and EFI intent items; and the other where we attach so many deferred
updates to the transaction that we pin the log tail and later the log
head meets the tail, causing the log to livelock.

We avoid triggering the first problem by tracking the number of ops in
the refcount btree cursor and forcing a requeue of the refcount intent
item any time we think that we might be close to overflowing.  This has
been baked into XFS since before the original e1a4 patch.

A recent patchset fixed the second problem by changing the deferred ops
code to finish all the work items created by each round of trying to
complete a refcount intent item, which eliminates the long chains of
deferred items (27dad); and causing long-running transactions to relog
their intent log items when space in the log gets low (74f4d).

Because this clamp affects /any/ unmapping request regardless of the
sharing factors of the component blocks, it degrades the performance of
all large unmapping requests -- whereas with an unshared file we can
unmap millions of blocks in one go, shared files are limited to
unmapping a few thousand blocks at a time, which causes the upper level
code to spin in a bunmapi loop even if it wasn't needed.

This also eliminates one more place where log recovery behavior can
differ from online behavior, because bunmapi operations no longer need
to requeue.  The fstest generic/447 was created to test the old fix, and
it still passes with this applied.

Partial-revert-of: e1a4e37cc7 ("xfs: try to avoid blowing out the transaction reservation when bunmaping a shared extent")
Depends: 27dada070d ("xfs: change the order in which child and parent defer ops ar finished")
Depends: 74f4d6a1e0 ("xfs: only relog deferred intent items if free space in the log gets low")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
History 2022-04-28 10:24:59 -07:00
arch Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation linux-kselftest-kunit-fixes-5.18-rc2 2022-04-08 15:06:11 -10:00
drivers Serial driver fix for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 10:08:50 -10:00
fs xfs: stop artificially limiting the length of bunmap calls 2022-04-28 10:24:59 -07:00
include Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel - A couple of fixes to cgroup-related handling of perf events 2022-04-10 07:08:22 -10:00
lib Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm - Allow the compiler to optimize away unused percpu accesses and change 2022-04-10 06:56:46 -10:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 5.18 2022-04-08 07:39:17 -10:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts modpost: restore the warning message for missing symbol versions 2022-04-03 03:11:51 +09:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc1 2022-04-01 10:32:46 -07:00
tools - Fix the MSI message data struct definition 2022-04-10 07:12:27 -10:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Remove dirty handling from gfn_to_pfn_cache completely 2022-04-02 05:34:41 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Vasily Averin's email address 2022-04-08 14:20:36 -10:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update IOMAP FILESYSTEM LIBRARY and XFS FILESYSTEM 2022-04-21 08:45:14 +10:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 14:21:36 -10:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.