xfs: Introduce ordered log vector support

And "ordered log vector" is a log vector that is used for
tracking a log item through the CIL and into the AIL as part of the
log checkpointing. These ordered log vectors are special in that
they are not written to to journal in any way, and are not accounted
to the checkpoint being written.

The reason for this behaviour is to allow operations to attach items
to transactions and have them follow the normal transactional
lifecycle without actually having to write them to the journal. This
allows logging of items that track high level logical changes and
writing them to the log, while the physical items being modified
pass through into the AIL and pin the tail of the log (and therefore
the logical item in the log) until all the modified items are
physically written to disk.

IOWs, it allows us to write metadata without physically logging
every individual change but still maintain the full transactional
integrity guarantees we currently have w.r.t. crash recovery.

This change modifies some of the CIL item insertion loops, as
ordered log vectors introduce some new constraints as they don't
track any data. One advantage of this change is that it combines
two log vector chain walks into a single pass, so there is less
overhead in the transaction commit pass as well. It also kills some
unused code in the log vector walk loop when committing the CIL.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 51 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
index d0833b54e55d..02b9cf3f8252 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ xlog_cil_prepare_log_vecs(
 		int	index;
 		int	len = 0;
 		uint	niovecs;
+		bool	ordered = false;
 
 		/* Skip items which aren't dirty in this transaction. */
 		if (!(lidp->lid_flags & XFS_LID_DIRTY))
@@ -137,14 +138,30 @@ xlog_cil_prepare_log_vecs(
 		if (!niovecs)
 			continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * Ordered items need to be tracked but we do not wish to write
+		 * them. We need a logvec to track the object, but we do not
+		 * need an iovec or buffer to be allocated for copying data.
+		 */
+		if (niovecs == XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED) {
+			ordered = true;
+			niovecs = 0;
+		}
+
 		new_lv = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(*new_lv) +
 				niovecs * sizeof(struct xfs_log_iovec),
 				KM_SLEEP|KM_NOFS);
 
+		new_lv->lv_item = lidp->lid_item;
+		new_lv->lv_niovecs = niovecs;
+		if (ordered) {
+			/* track as an ordered logvec */
+			new_lv->lv_buf_len = XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED;
+			goto next;
+		}
+
 		/* The allocated iovec region lies beyond the log vector. */
 		new_lv->lv_iovecp = (struct xfs_log_iovec *)&new_lv[1];
-		new_lv->lv_niovecs = niovecs;
-		new_lv->lv_item = lidp->lid_item;
 
 		/* build the vector array and calculate it's length */
 		IOP_FORMAT(new_lv->lv_item, new_lv->lv_iovecp);
@@ -165,6 +182,7 @@ xlog_cil_prepare_log_vecs(
 		}
 		ASSERT(ptr == new_lv->lv_buf + new_lv->lv_buf_len);
 
+next:
 		if (!ret_lv)
 			ret_lv = new_lv;
 		else
@@ -191,8 +209,18 @@ xfs_cil_prepare_item(
 
 	if (old) {
 		/* existing lv on log item, space used is a delta */
-		ASSERT(!list_empty(&lv->lv_item->li_cil));
-		ASSERT(old->lv_buf && old->lv_buf_len && old->lv_niovecs);
+		ASSERT((old->lv_buf && old->lv_buf_len && old->lv_niovecs) ||
+			old->lv_buf_len == XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED);
+
+		/*
+		 * If the new item is ordered, keep the old one that is already
+		 * tracking dirty or ordered regions
+		 */
+		if (lv->lv_buf_len == XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED) {
+			ASSERT(!lv->lv_buf);
+			kmem_free(lv);
+			return;
+		}
 
 		*len += lv->lv_buf_len - old->lv_buf_len;
 		*diff_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs - old->lv_niovecs;
@@ -201,10 +229,11 @@ xfs_cil_prepare_item(
 	} else {
 		/* new lv, must pin the log item */
 		ASSERT(!lv->lv_item->li_lv);
-		ASSERT(list_empty(&lv->lv_item->li_cil));
 
-		*len += lv->lv_buf_len;
-		*diff_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs;
+		if (lv->lv_buf_len != XFS_LOG_VEC_ORDERED) {
+			*len += lv->lv_buf_len;
+			*diff_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs;
+		}
 		IOP_PIN(lv->lv_item);
 
 	}
@@ -259,18 +288,24 @@ xlog_cil_insert_items(
 	 * We can do this safely because the context can't checkpoint until we
 	 * are done so it doesn't matter exactly how we update the CIL.
 	 */
-	for (lv = log_vector; lv; lv = lv->lv_next)
-		xfs_cil_prepare_item(log, lv, &len, &diff_iovecs);
-
-	/* account for space used by new iovec headers  */
-	len += diff_iovecs * sizeof(xlog_op_header_t);
-
 	spin_lock(&cil->xc_cil_lock);
+	for (lv = log_vector; lv; ) {
+		struct xfs_log_vec *next = lv->lv_next;
 
-	/* move the items to the tail of the CIL */
-	for (lv = log_vector; lv; lv = lv->lv_next)
+		ASSERT(lv->lv_item->li_lv || list_empty(&lv->lv_item->li_cil));
+		lv->lv_next = NULL;
+
+		/*
+		 * xfs_cil_prepare_item() may free the lv, so move the item on
+		 * the CIL first.
+		 */
 		list_move_tail(&lv->lv_item->li_cil, &cil->xc_cil);
+		xfs_cil_prepare_item(log, lv, &len, &diff_iovecs);
+		lv = next;
+	}
 
+	/* account for space used by new iovec headers  */
+	len += diff_iovecs * sizeof(xlog_op_header_t);
 	ctx->nvecs += diff_iovecs;
 
 	/*
@@ -381,9 +416,7 @@ xlog_cil_push(
 	struct xfs_cil_ctx	*new_ctx;
 	struct xlog_in_core	*commit_iclog;
 	struct xlog_ticket	*tic;
-	int			num_lv;
 	int			num_iovecs;
-	int			len;
 	int			error = 0;
 	struct xfs_trans_header thdr;
 	struct xfs_log_iovec	lhdr;
@@ -428,12 +461,9 @@ xlog_cil_push(
 	 * side which is currently locked out by the flush lock.
 	 */
 	lv = NULL;
-	num_lv = 0;
 	num_iovecs = 0;
-	len = 0;
 	while (!list_empty(&cil->xc_cil)) {
 		struct xfs_log_item	*item;
-		int			i;
 
 		item = list_first_entry(&cil->xc_cil,
 					struct xfs_log_item, li_cil);
@@ -444,11 +474,7 @@ xlog_cil_push(
 			lv->lv_next = item->li_lv;
 		lv = item->li_lv;
 		item->li_lv = NULL;
-
-		num_lv++;
 		num_iovecs += lv->lv_niovecs;
-		for (i = 0; i < lv->lv_niovecs; i++)
-			len += lv->lv_iovecp[i].i_len;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -701,6 +727,7 @@ xfs_log_commit_cil(
 	if (commit_lsn)
 		*commit_lsn = log->l_cilp->xc_ctx->sequence;
 
+	/* xlog_cil_insert_items() destroys log_vector list */
 	xlog_cil_insert_items(log, log_vector, tp->t_ticket);
 
 	/* check we didn't blow the reservation */