xfs: convert grant head manipulations to lockless algorithm

The only thing that the grant lock remains to protect is the grant head
manipulations when adding or removing space from the log. These calculations
are already based on atomic variables, so we can already update them safely
without locks. However, the grant head manpulations require atomic multi-step
calculations to be executed, which the algorithms currently don't allow.

To make these multi-step calculations atomic, convert the algorithms to
compare-and-exchange loops on the atomic variables. That is, we sample the old
value, perform the calculation and use atomic64_cmpxchg() to attempt to update
the head with the new value. If the head has not changed since we sampled it,
it will succeed and we are done. Otherwise, we rerun the calculation again from
a new sample of the head.

This allows us to remove the grant lock from around all the grant head space
manipulations, and that effectively removes the grant lock from the log
completely. Hence we can remove the grant lock completely from the log at this
point.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
index befb2fc5b027..d5f8be8f4bf6 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_priv.h
@@ -510,9 +510,6 @@ typedef struct log {
 	int			l_curr_block;   /* current logical log block */
 	int			l_prev_block;   /* previous logical log block */
 
-	/* The following block of fields are changed while holding grant_lock */
-	spinlock_t		l_grant_lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-
 	/*
 	 * l_last_sync_lsn and l_tail_lsn are atomics so they can be set and
 	 * read without needing to hold specific locks. To avoid operations
@@ -599,23 +596,33 @@ xlog_assign_atomic_lsn(atomic64_t *lsn, uint cycle, uint block)
 }
 
 /*
- * When we crack the grrant head, we sample it first so that the value will not
+ * When we crack the grant head, we sample it first so that the value will not
  * change while we are cracking it into the component values. This means we
  * will always get consistent component values to work from.
  */
 static inline void
-xlog_crack_grant_head(atomic64_t *head, int *cycle, int *space)
+xlog_crack_grant_head_val(int64_t val, int *cycle, int *space)
 {
-	int64_t	val = atomic64_read(head);
-
 	*cycle = val >> 32;
 	*space = val & 0xffffffff;
 }
 
 static inline void
+xlog_crack_grant_head(atomic64_t *head, int *cycle, int *space)
+{
+	xlog_crack_grant_head_val(atomic64_read(head), cycle, space);
+}
+
+static inline int64_t
+xlog_assign_grant_head_val(int cycle, int space)
+{
+	return ((int64_t)cycle << 32) | space;
+}
+
+static inline void
 xlog_assign_grant_head(atomic64_t *head, int cycle, int space)
 {
-	atomic64_set(head, ((int64_t)cycle << 32) | space);
+	atomic64_set(head, xlog_assign_grant_head_val(cycle, space));
 }
 
 /*