linux/fs
Christoph Hellwig 0030807c66 xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing
Currently we have a few issues with the way the workqueue code is used to
implement AIL pushing:

 - it accidentally uses the same workqueue as the syncer action, and thus
   can be prevented from running if there are enough sync actions active
   in the system.
 - it doesn't use the HIGHPRI flag to queue at the head of the queue of
   work items

At this point I'm not confident enough in getting all the workqueue flags and
tweaks right to provide a perfectly reliable execution context for AIL
pushing, which is the most important piece in XFS to make forward progress
when the log fills.

Revert back to use a kthread per filesystem which fixes all the above issues
at the cost of having a task struct and stack around for each mounted
filesystem.  In addition this also gives us much better ways to diagnose
any issues involving hung AIL pushing and removes a small amount of code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Tested-by: Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
2011-10-11 11:02:49 -05:00
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9p fs/9p: Use protocol-defined value for lock/getlock 'type' field. 2011-09-06 08:17:16 -05:00
adfs
affs
afs
autofs4 autofs4: fix debug printk warning uncovered by cleanup 2011-08-08 12:02:43 -07:00
befs befs: Validate length of long symbolic links. 2011-08-17 13:31:24 -07:00
bfs
btrfs Merge branch 'btrfs-3.0' of git://github.com/chrismason/linux 2011-10-03 12:17:44 -07:00
cachefiles
ceph Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ceph.newdream.net/git/ceph-client 2011-09-09 15:48:34 -07:00
cifs [CIFS] Fix first time message on mount, ntlmv2 upgrade delayed to 3.2 2011-10-07 20:17:56 -05:00
coda
configfs
cramfs
debugfs
devpts
dlm
ecryptfs Ecryptfs: Add mount option to check uid of device being mounted = expect uid 2011-08-09 23:29:01 -05:00
efs
exofs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd 2011-08-06 22:56:03 -07:00
exportfs
ext2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2011-08-01 13:48:31 -10:00
ext3 block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META 2011-08-23 14:50:29 +02:00
ext4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2011-09-21 13:20:21 -07:00
fat Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6 2011-08-18 14:16:13 -07:00
freevxfs
fscache
fuse fuse: fix memory leak 2011-09-12 11:47:10 -07:00
gfs2 block: separate priority boosting from REQ_META 2011-08-23 14:50:29 +02:00
hfs
hfsplus hfsplus: fix filesystem size checks 2011-09-15 09:03:17 -07:00
hostfs
hpfs
hppfs hppfs: missing include 2011-07-27 22:21:58 -04:00
hugetlbfs lockdep: Add helper function for dir vs file i_mutex annotation 2011-08-25 10:50:18 -07:00
isofs
jbd
jbd2
jffs2 switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t * 2011-08-01 02:10:06 -04:00
jfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6 2011-08-15 08:40:24 -07:00
lockd
logfs
minix
ncpfs
nfs VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions 2011-09-26 19:16:46 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd
nilfs2
nls
notify
ntfs
ocfs2 switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t * 2011-08-01 02:10:06 -04:00
omfs
openpromfs
partitions
proc teach /proc/$pid/numa_maps about transparent hugepages 2011-09-21 13:15:44 -07:00
pstore
qnx4
quota VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions 2011-09-26 19:16:46 -07:00
ramfs
reiserfs switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t * 2011-08-01 02:10:06 -04:00
romfs
squashfs
sysfs
sysv
ubifs UBIFS: not build debug messages with CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_DEBUG disabled 2011-08-19 18:58:58 +03:00
udf
ufs
xfs xfs: revert to using a kthread for AIL pushing 2011-10-11 11:02:49 -05:00
aio.c
anon_inodes.c
attr.c
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c
bio.c
block_dev.c Avoid dereferencing a 'request_queue' after last close. 2011-09-10 17:20:21 +10:00
buffer.c
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: add compat handler for PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS 2011-08-07 22:24:41 -07:00
compat.c All Arch: remove linkage for sys_nfsservctl system call 2011-08-26 15:09:58 -07:00
dcache.c vfs: renumber DCACHE_xyz flags, remove some stale ones 2011-08-06 22:52:40 -07:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c
exec.c move RLIMIT_NPROC check from set_user() to do_execve_common() 2011-08-11 11:24:42 -07:00
fcntl.c
fhandle.c
fifo.c
file_table.c
file.c
filesystems.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c don't busy retry the inode on failed grab_super_passive() 2011-07-31 22:52:08 +08:00
generic_acl.c switch posix_acl_equiv_mode() to umode_t * 2011-08-01 02:10:06 -04:00
inode.c lockdep: Add helper function for dir vs file i_mutex annotation 2011-08-25 10:50:18 -07:00
internal.h
ioctl.c
ioprio.c
Kconfig tmpfs: expand "help" to explain value of TMPFS_POSIX_ACL 2011-08-03 14:25:25 -10:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c
locks.c
Makefile
mbcache.c
mpage.c
namei.c vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag 2011-09-27 08:12:33 -07:00
namespace.c VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions 2011-09-26 19:16:46 -07:00
no-block.c
open.c
pipe.c
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c switch posix_acl_chmod() to umode_t 2011-08-01 02:10:32 -04:00
read_write.c
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c
seq_file.c
signalfd.c
splice.c
stack.c mm: a few small updates for radix-swap 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
stat.c vfs: remove LOOKUP_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag 2011-09-27 08:12:33 -07:00
statfs.c
super.c
sync.c
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr_acl.c
xattr.c