PR/40525 CVS commit: src/sys

[Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40525; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%gnats.NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: PR/40525 CVS commit: src/sys
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:10:25 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:   src
 Committed By:  ad
 Date:          Sun Feb 22 20:10:25 UTC 2009
 
 Modified Files:
        src/sys/kern: vfs_wapbl.c
        src/sys/miscfs/syncfs: sync_subr.c sync_vnops.c
        src/sys/ufs/ffs: ffs_alloc.c ffs_vfsops.c ffs_vnops.c
 
 Log Message:
 PR kern/39564 wapbl performance issues with disk cache flushing
 PR kern/40361 WAPBL locking panic in -current
 PR kern/40361 WAPBL locking panic in -current
 PR kern/40470 WAPBL corrupts ext2fs
 PR kern/40562 busy loop in ffs_sync when unmounting a file system
 PR kern/40525 panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
 
 - A fix for an issue that can lead to "ffs_valloc: dup" due to dirty cg
   buffers being invalidated. Problem discovered and patch by dholland@.
 
 - If the syncer fails to lazily sync a vnode due to lock contention,
   retry 1 second later instead of 30 seconds later.
 
 - Flush inode atime updates every ~10 seconds (this makes most sense with
   logging). Presently they didn't hit the disk for read-only files or
   devices until the file system was unmounted. It would be better to trickle
   the updates out but that would require more extensive changes.
 
 - Fix issues with file system corruption, busy looping and other nasty
   problems when logging and non-logging file systems are intermixed,
   with one being the root file system.
 
 - For logging, do not flush metadata on an inode-at-a-time basis if the sync
   has been requested by ioflush. Previously, we could try hundreds of log
   sync operations a second due to inode update activity, causing the syncer
   to fall behind and metadata updates to be serialized across the entire
   file system. Instead, burst out metadata and log flushes at a minimum
   interval of every 10 seconds on an active file system (happens more often
   if the log becomes full). Note this does not change the operation of
   fsync() etc.
 
 - With the flush issue fixed, re-enable concurrent metadata updates in
   vfs_wapbl.c.
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.22 -r1.23 src/sys/kern/vfs_wapbl.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.35 -r1.36 src/sys/miscfs/syncfs/sync_subr.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.25 -r1.26 src/sys/miscfs/syncfs/sync_vnops.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.120 -r1.121 src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.241 -r1.242 src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.109 -r1.110 src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c
 
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