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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-09 06:59:22 +0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2013-02-09 06:59:22 +0400
commit9924a92a8c217576bd2a2b1bbbb854462f1a00ae (patch)
tree5c4eaee350e38cd2854fd6029da9f2a822ee184e /fs/ext4/indirect.c
parent722887ddc8982ff40e40b650fbca9ae1e56259bc (diff)
downloadlinux-9924a92a8c217576bd2a2b1bbbb854462f1a00ae.tar.xz
ext4: pass context information to jbd2__journal_start()
So we can better understand what bits of ext4 are responsible for long-running jbd2 handles, use jbd2__journal_start() so we can pass context information for logging purposes. The recommended way for finding the longer-running handles is: T=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing EVENT=$T/events/jbd2/jbd2_handle_stats echo "interval > 5" > $EVENT/filter echo 1 > $EVENT/enable ./run-my-fs-benchmark cat $T/trace > /tmp/problem-handles This will list handles that were active for longer than 20ms. Having longer-running handles is bad, because a commit started at the wrong time could stall for those 20+ milliseconds, which could delay an fsync() or an O_SYNC operation. Here is an example line from the trace file describing a handle which lived on for 311 jiffies, or over 1.2 seconds: postmark-2917 [000] .... 196.435786: jbd2_handle_stats: dev 254,32 tid 570 type 2 line_no 2541 interval 311 sync 0 requested_blocks 1 dirtied_blocks 0 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/indirect.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/indirect.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
index 193281098fb6..c541ab8b64dd 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ ssize_t ext4_ind_direct_IO(int rw, struct kiocb *iocb,
if (final_size > inode->i_size) {
/* Credits for sb + inode write */
- handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 2);
+ handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
goto out;
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ locked:
int err;
/* Credits for sb + inode write */
- handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, 2);
+ handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_INODE, 2);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
/* This is really bad luck. We've written the data
* but cannot extend i_size. Bail out and pretend
@@ -950,7 +950,8 @@ static handle_t *start_transaction(struct inode *inode)
{
handle_t *result;
- result = ext4_journal_start(inode, ext4_blocks_for_truncate(inode));
+ result = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_TRUNCATE,
+ ext4_blocks_for_truncate(inode));
if (!IS_ERR(result))
return result;