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ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc
authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.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)
commitcd1aac32923a9c8adcc0ae85e33c1ca0c5855838
tree3d55d9249ef960a7e345969404d537e36dbd9609
parent61628a3f3a37af2bf25daf8e26fd6b76a78c4f76
ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc

This provides a new ordered mode implementation which gets rid of using
buffer heads to enforce the ordering between metadata change with the
related data chage.  Instead, in the new ordering mode, it keeps track
of all of the inodes touched by each transaction on a list, and when
that transaction is committed, it flushes all of the dirty pages for
those inodes.  In addition, the new ordered mode reverses the lock
ordering of the page lock and transaction lock, which provides easier
support for delayed allocation.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/inode.c
fs/jbd2/commit.c