On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:21:24PM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 07/19/13 01:25, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Now that all the log item preparation and formatting is done under
> >the CIL lock, we can get rid of the intermediate log vector chain
> >used to track items to be inserted into the CIL.
> >
> >We can already find all the items to be committed from the
> >transaction handle, so as long as we attach the log vectors to the
> >item before we insert the items into the CIL, we don't need to
> >create a log vector chain to pass around.
> >
> >This means we can move all the item insertion code into and optimise
> >it into a pair of simple passes across all the items in the
> >transaction. The first pass does the formatting and accounting, the
> >second inserts them all into the CIL.
> >
> >We keep this two pass split so that we can separate the CIL
> >insertion - which must be done under the CIL spinlock - from the
> >formatting. We could insert each item into the CIL with a single
> >pass, but that massively increases the number of times we have to
> >grab the CIL spinlock. It is much more efficient (and hence
> >scalable) to do a batch operation and insert all objects in a single
> >lock grab.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ...
>
> >@@ -357,10 +341,8 @@ xlog_cil_insert_items(
> > * during the transaction commit.
> > */
> > if (ctx->ticket->t_curr_res == 0) {
> >- /* first commit in checkpoint, steal the header reservation */
> >- ASSERT(ticket->t_curr_res>= ctx->ticket->t_unit_res + len);
>
> ^^ is the ctx ticket overflow caught somewhere else? ^^^^
Of course. It's caught in same check that catches all other
transaction overruns - in the caller after this function returns.
And it prints the ticket now, too, which means it's a far more
functional check that the current one...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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