ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc
authorMingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:27:31 +0000 (19:27 -0400)
commit61628a3f3a37af2bf25daf8e26fd6b76a78c4f76
tree25375b739b2e3f65c8dff3d3dd2a78e0724d0f96
parent06d6cf6959d22037fcec598f4f954db5db3d7356
ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc

With the reverse locking, we need to start a transation before taking
the page lock, so in ext4_da_writepages() we need to break the write-out
into chunks, and restart the journal for each chunck to ensure the
write-out fits in a single transaction.

Updated patch from Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
which fixes delalloc sync hang with journal lock inversion, and address
the performance regression issue.

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/extents.c
fs/ext4/inode.c