[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 02/24] GFS2: Optimise writepage for metadata

[Steven Whitehouse]

This adds a GFS2 specific writepage for metadata, rather than
continuing to use the VFS function. As a result we now tag all
our metadata I/O with the correct flag so that blktraces will
now be less confusing.

Also, the generic function was checking for a number of corner
cases which cannot happen on the metadata address spaces so that
this should be faster too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
index 75b2aec..78a5f43 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/meta_io.c
@@ -33,17 +33,65 @@
 #include "util.h"
 #include "ops_address.h"
 
-static int aspace_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t lblock,
-			    struct buffer_head *bh_result, int create)
+static int gfs2_aspace_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 {
-	gfs2_assert_warn(inode->i_sb->s_fs_info, 0);
-	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-}
+	int err;
+	struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
+	int nr_underway = 0;
+	int write_op = (1 << BIO_RW_META) | ((wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL ?
+			WRITE_SYNC_PLUG : WRITE));
+
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+	BUG_ON(!page_has_buffers(page));
+
+	head = page_buffers(page);
+	bh = head;
+
+	do {
+		if (!buffer_mapped(bh))
+			continue;
+		/*
+		 * If it's a fully non-blocking write attempt and we cannot
+		 * lock the buffer then redirty the page.  Note that this can
+		 * potentially cause a busy-wait loop from pdflush and kswapd
+		 * activity, but those code paths have their own higher-level
+		 * throttling.
+		 */
+		if (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_NONE || !wbc->nonblocking) {
+			lock_buffer(bh);
+		} else if (!trylock_buffer(bh)) {
+			redirty_page_for_writepage(wbc, page);
+			continue;
+		}
+		if (test_clear_buffer_dirty(bh)) {
+			mark_buffer_async_write(bh);
+		} else {
+			unlock_buffer(bh);
+		}
+	} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
+
+	/*
+	 * The page and its buffers are protected by PageWriteback(), so we can
+	 * drop the bh refcounts early.
+	 */
+	BUG_ON(PageWriteback(page));
+	set_page_writeback(page);
+
+	do {
+		struct buffer_head *next = bh->b_this_page;
+		if (buffer_async_write(bh)) {
+			submit_bh(write_op, bh);
+			nr_underway++;
+		}
+		bh = next;
+	} while (bh != head);
+	unlock_page(page);
 
-static int gfs2_aspace_writepage(struct page *page,
-				 struct writeback_control *wbc)
-{
-	return block_write_full_page(page, aspace_get_block, wbc);
+	err = 0;
+	if (nr_underway == 0)
+		end_page_writeback(page);
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 static const struct address_space_operations aspace_aops = {
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