[Patch 0/10]: Cleanup online reservations for 2.6.9-rc2-mm4.

[Stephen Tweedie]

The patches to follow clean up a lot of the ext3 online reservation
code in 2.6.9-rc2-mm4.  There are a few minor fixes for things like
loglevels of printks and correcting some error returns, plus
refactoring a bit of existing ext3 code to allow resize to avoid dummy
on-stack inodes. 

There's also a review of the whole SMP locking of the resize.  Locking
is minimised: the impact on the hot path consists of nothing more than
an smp_rmb() before we test sb->s_groups_count.  That's a noop on x86,
but is a bit expensive on archs with a weak memory order; I've tried to
minimise that by reading it just once where previously it was read each
time round a loop, but I don't see how to avoid the cost entirely.

Finally, sb->s_debts is nuked from ext3.  It's broken already, as per my
email a week or two ago --- the per-group s_debt[] counts never get
modified.  We could probably do with nuking it from ext2 too, as it's
(differently) broken there (performs unlocked byte inc/dec operations on
a shared array and is vulnerable to word-tearing problems.)

This should address all of the points akpm had in his review of resize
a while back, except for the documentation/user space side of things
and the lack of error checking in certain ext3_journal_dirty_metadata
calls: I'm still fixing those up (I'll try to push out a working
user-space for this later today.)


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/