On 08/29/13 19:23, Dave Chinner wrote:
From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> For CRC enabled filesystems, we can't just swap inode forks from one inode to another when defragmenting a file - the blocks in the inode fork bmap btree contain pointers back to the owner inode. Hence if we are to swap the inode forks we have to atomically modify every block in the btree during the transaction. We are doing an entire fork swap here, so we could create a new transaction item type that indicates we are changing the owner of a certain structure from one value to another. If we combine this with ordered buffer logging to modify all the buffers in the tree, then we can change the buffers in the tree without needing log space for the operation. However, this then requires log recovery to perform the modification of the owner information of the objects/structures in question. This does introduce some interesting ordering details into recovery: we have to make sure that the owner change replay occurs after the change that moves the objects is made, not before. Hence we can't use a separate log item for this as we have no guarantee of strict ordering between multiple items in the log due to the relogging action of asynchronous transaction commits. Hence there is no "generic" method we can use for changing the ownership of arbitrary metadata structures. For inode forks, however, there is a simple method of communicating that the fork contents need the owner rewritten - we can pass a inode log format flag for the fork for the transaction that does a fork swap. This flag will then follow the inode fork through relogging actions so when the swap actually gets replayed the ownership can be changed immediately by log recovery. So that gives us a simple method of "whole fork" exchange between two inodes. This is relatively simple to implement, so it makes sense to do this as an initial implementation to support xfs_fsr on CRC enabled filesytems in the same manner as we do on existing filesystems. This commit introduces the swapext driven functionality, the recovery functionality will be in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
Makes sense. Change owner in btree entry, Don't log the modified btree buffers but recreate in recovery when necessary.
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