1. Andy Price submitted a patch to make gfs2_write_full_page a
static function.
2. Dan Carpenter submitted a patch to fix a ERR_PTR thinko.
I've also got a few patches, three of which fix bugs related to
deleting very large files, which cause GFS2 to run out of
journal space:
3. The first one prevents GFS2 delete operation from requesting too
much journal space.
4. The second one fixes a problem whereby GFS2 can hang because it
wasn't taking journal space demand into its calculations.
5. The third one wakes up IO waiters when a flush is done to restart
processes stuck waiting for journal space to become available.
The other three patches are a performance improvement related to
spin_lock contention between multiple writers:
6. The "tr_touched" variable was switched to a flag to be more atomic
and eliminate the possibility of some races.
7. Function meta_lo_add was moved inline with its only caller to make
the code more readable and efficient.
8. Contention on the gfs2_log_lock spinlock was greatly reduced by
avoiding the lock altogether in cases where we don't really need
it: buffers that already appear in the appropriate metadata list
for the journal. Many thanks to Steve Whitehouse for the ideas and
principles behind these patches.
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Merge tag 'gfs2-4.11.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2
Pull GFS2 updates from Robert Peterson:
"We've got eight GFS2 patches for this merge window:
- Andy Price submitted a patch to make gfs2_write_full_page a static
function.
- Dan Carpenter submitted a patch to fix a ERR_PTR thinko.
Three patches fix bugs related to deleting very large files, which
cause GFS2 to run out of journal space:
- The first one prevents GFS2 delete operation from requesting too
much journal space.
- The second one fixes a problem whereby GFS2 can hang because it
wasn't taking journal space demand into its calculations.
- The third one wakes up IO waiters when a flush is done to restart
processes stuck waiting for journal space to become available.
The final three patches are a performance improvement related to
spin_lock contention between multiple writers:
- The "tr_touched" variable was switched to a flag to be more atomic
and eliminate the possibility of some races.
- Function meta_lo_add was moved inline with its only caller to make
the code more readable and efficient.
- Contention on the gfs2_log_lock spinlock was greatly reduced by
avoiding the lock altogether in cases where we don't really need
it: buffers that already appear in the appropriate metadata list
for the journal. Many thanks to Steve Whitehouse for the ideas and
principles behind these patches"
* tag 'gfs2-4.11.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gfs2/linux-gfs2:
gfs2: Make gfs2_write_full_page static
GFS2: Reduce contention on gfs2_log_lock
GFS2: Inline function meta_lo_add
GFS2: Switch tr_touched to flag in transaction
GFS2: Wake up io waiters whenever a flush is done
GFS2: Made logd daemon take into account log demand
GFS2: Limit number of transaction blocks requested for truncates
GFS2: Fix reference to ERR_PTR in gfs2_glock_iter_next
9763dd6f81