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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2008-12-09 11:04:40 -0500
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2008-12-31 14:13:24 +0200
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UBIFS: simplify make_free_space
The 'make_free_space()' function was too complex and this patch simplifies it. It also fixes a bug - the freespace test failed straight away on UBI volumes with 512 bytes LEB size. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ubifs/budget.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ubifs/budget.c151
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 102 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/budget.c b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
index 3715d0114952..4d270f0a8564 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/budget.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/budget.c
@@ -37,13 +37,10 @@
/*
* When pessimistic budget calculations say that there is no enough space,
* UBIFS starts writing back dirty inodes and pages, doing garbage collection,
- * or committing. The below constants define maximum number of times UBIFS
+ * or committing. The below constant defines maximum number of times UBIFS
* repeats the operations.
*/
-#define MAX_SHRINK_RETRIES 8
-#define MAX_GC_RETRIES 4
-#define MAX_CMT_RETRIES 2
-#define MAX_NOSPC_RETRIES 1
+#define MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES 3
/*
* The below constant defines amount of dirty pages which should be written
@@ -52,30 +49,6 @@
#define NR_TO_WRITE 16
/**
- * struct retries_info - information about re-tries while making free space.
- * @prev_liability: previous liability
- * @shrink_cnt: how many times the liability was shrinked
- * @shrink_retries: count of liability shrink re-tries (increased when
- * liability does not shrink)
- * @try_gc: GC should be tried first
- * @gc_retries: how many times GC was run
- * @cmt_retries: how many times commit has been done
- * @nospc_retries: how many times GC returned %-ENOSPC
- *
- * Since we consider budgeting to be the fast-path, and this structure has to
- * be allocated on stack and zeroed out, we make it smaller using bit-fields.
- */
-struct retries_info {
- long long prev_liability;
- unsigned int shrink_cnt;
- unsigned int shrink_retries:5;
- unsigned int try_gc:1;
- unsigned int gc_retries:4;
- unsigned int cmt_retries:3;
- unsigned int nospc_retries:1;
-};
-
-/**
* shrink_liability - write-back some dirty pages/inodes.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
* @nr_to_write: how many dirty pages to write-back
@@ -147,9 +120,25 @@ static int run_gc(struct ubifs_info *c)
}
/**
+ * get_liability - calculate current liability.
+ * @c: UBIFS file-system description object
+ *
+ * This function calculates and returns current UBIFS liability, i.e. the
+ * amount of bytes UBIFS has "promised" to write to the media.
+ */
+static long long get_liability(struct ubifs_info *c)
+{
+ long long liab;
+
+ spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
+ liab = c->budg_idx_growth + c->budg_data_growth + c->budg_dd_growth;
+ spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+ return liab;
+}
+
+/**
* make_free_space - make more free space on the file-system.
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
- * @ri: information about previous invocations of this function
*
* This function is called when an operation cannot be budgeted because there
* is supposedly no free space. But in most cases there is some free space:
@@ -165,87 +154,42 @@ static int run_gc(struct ubifs_info *c)
* Returns %-ENOSPC if it couldn't do more free space, and other negative error
* codes on failures.
*/
-static int make_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c, struct retries_info *ri)
+static int make_free_space(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
- int err;
-
- /*
- * If we have some dirty pages and inodes (liability), try to write
- * them back unless this was tried too many times without effect
- * already.
- */
- if (ri->shrink_retries < MAX_SHRINK_RETRIES && !ri->try_gc) {
- long long liability;
-
- spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
- liability = c->budg_idx_growth + c->budg_data_growth +
- c->budg_dd_growth;
- spin_unlock(&c->space_lock);
+ int err, retries = 0;
+ long long liab1, liab2;
- if (ri->prev_liability >= liability) {
- /* Liability does not shrink, next time try GC then */
- ri->shrink_retries += 1;
- if (ri->gc_retries < MAX_GC_RETRIES)
- ri->try_gc = 1;
- dbg_budg("liability did not shrink: retries %d of %d",
- ri->shrink_retries, MAX_SHRINK_RETRIES);
- }
-
- dbg_budg("force write-back (count %d)", ri->shrink_cnt);
- shrink_liability(c, NR_TO_WRITE + ri->shrink_cnt);
+ do {
+ liab1 = get_liability(c);
+ /*
+ * We probably have some dirty pages or inodes (liability), try
+ * to write them back.
+ */
+ dbg_budg("liability %lld, run write-back", liab1);
+ shrink_liability(c, NR_TO_WRITE);
- ri->prev_liability = liability;
- ri->shrink_cnt += 1;
- return -EAGAIN;
- }
+ liab2 = get_liability(c);
+ if (liab2 < liab1)
+ return -EAGAIN;
- /*
- * Try to run garbage collector unless it was already tried too many
- * times.
- */
- if (ri->gc_retries < MAX_GC_RETRIES) {
- ri->gc_retries += 1;
- dbg_budg("run GC, retries %d of %d",
- ri->gc_retries, MAX_GC_RETRIES);
+ dbg_budg("new liability %lld (not shrinked)", liab2);
- ri->try_gc = 0;
+ /* Liability did not shrink again, try GC */
+ dbg_budg("Run GC");
err = run_gc(c);
if (!err)
return -EAGAIN;
- if (err == -EAGAIN) {
- dbg_budg("GC asked to commit");
- err = ubifs_run_commit(c);
- if (err)
- return err;
- return -EAGAIN;
- }
-
- if (err != -ENOSPC)
+ if (err != -EAGAIN && err != -ENOSPC)
+ /* Some real error happened */
return err;
- /*
- * GC could not make any progress. If this is the first time,
- * then it makes sense to try to commit, because it might make
- * some dirty space.
- */
- dbg_budg("GC returned -ENOSPC, retries %d",
- ri->nospc_retries);
- if (ri->nospc_retries >= MAX_NOSPC_RETRIES)
- return err;
- ri->nospc_retries += 1;
- }
-
- /* Neither GC nor write-back helped, try to commit */
- if (ri->cmt_retries < MAX_CMT_RETRIES) {
- ri->cmt_retries += 1;
- dbg_budg("run commit, retries %d of %d",
- ri->cmt_retries, MAX_CMT_RETRIES);
+ dbg_budg("Run commit (retries %d)", retries);
err = ubifs_run_commit(c);
if (err)
return err;
- return -EAGAIN;
- }
+ } while (retries++ < MAX_MKSPC_RETRIES);
+
return -ENOSPC;
}
@@ -523,8 +467,7 @@ static int calc_dd_growth(const struct ubifs_info *c,
int ubifs_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
{
int uninitialized_var(cmt_retries), uninitialized_var(wb_retries);
- int err, idx_growth, data_growth, dd_growth;
- struct retries_info ri;
+ int err, idx_growth, data_growth, dd_growth, retried = 0;
ubifs_assert(req->new_page <= 1);
ubifs_assert(req->dirtied_page <= 1);
@@ -542,7 +485,6 @@ int ubifs_budget_space(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_budget_req *req)
if (!data_growth && !dd_growth)
return 0;
idx_growth = calc_idx_growth(c, req);
- memset(&ri, 0, sizeof(struct retries_info));
again:
spin_lock(&c->space_lock);
@@ -580,12 +522,17 @@ again:
return err;
}
- err = make_free_space(c, &ri);
+ err = make_free_space(c);
+ cond_resched();
if (err == -EAGAIN) {
dbg_budg("try again");
- cond_resched();
goto again;
} else if (err == -ENOSPC) {
+ if (!retried) {
+ retried = 1;
+ dbg_budg("-ENOSPC, but anyway try once again");
+ goto again;
+ }
dbg_budg("FS is full, -ENOSPC");
c->nospace = 1;
if (can_use_rp(c) || c->rp_size == 0)