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authorXue jiufei <xuejiufei@huawei.com>2015-09-04 15:44:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700
commit513e2dae9422223072ed3887e91efebec2fc0a01 (patch)
tree8a4ddec9831ae4ce0ff0512eaaab38cc256e4b95 /fs/ocfs2
parent0f5e7b41f91814447defc34e915fc5d6e52266d9 (diff)
ocfs2: flush inode data to disk and free inode when i_count becomes zero
Disk inode deletion may be heavily delayed when one node unlink a file after the same dentry is freed on another node(say N1) because of memory shrink but inode is left in memory. This inode can only be freed while N1 doing the orphan scan work. However, N1 may skip orphan scan for several times because other nodes may do the work earlier. In our tests, it may take 1 hour on 4 nodes cluster and it hurts the user experience. So we think the inode should be freed after the data flushed to disk when i_count becomes zero to avoid such circumstances. Signed-off-by: Joyce.xue <xuejiufei@huawei.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ocfs2')
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/inode.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
index b254416dc8d9..4e69f3cbc5f1 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/inode.c
@@ -1191,17 +1191,19 @@ void ocfs2_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
int ocfs2_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct ocfs2_inode_info *oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
- int res;
trace_ocfs2_drop_inode((unsigned long long)oi->ip_blkno,
inode->i_nlink, oi->ip_flags);
- if (oi->ip_flags & OCFS2_INODE_MAYBE_ORPHANED)
- res = 1;
- else
- res = generic_drop_inode(inode);
+ assert_spin_locked(&inode->i_lock);
+ inode->i_state |= I_WILL_FREE;
+ spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+ write_inode_now(inode, 1);
+ spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+ WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_NEW);
+ inode->i_state &= ~I_WILL_FREE;
- return res;
+ return 1;
}
/*