xfs: log timestamp updates

Timestamps on regular files are the last metadata that XFS does not update
transactionally.  Now that we use the delaylog mode exclusively and made
the log scode scale extremly well there is no need to bypass that code for
timestamp updates.  Logging all updates allows to drop a lot of code, and
will allow for further performance improvements later on.

Note that this patch drops optimized handling of fdatasync - it will be
added back in a separate commit.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index b21022499c2e..7ce9ccbf17c4 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -1656,7 +1656,6 @@ retry:
 			iip = ip->i_itemp;
 			if (!iip || xfs_inode_clean(ip)) {
 				ASSERT(ip != free_ip);
-				ip->i_update_core = 0;
 				xfs_ifunlock(ip);
 				xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 				continue;
@@ -2451,7 +2450,6 @@ xfs_iflush(
 	 * to disk, because the log record didn't make it to disk!
 	 */
 	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp)) {
-		ip->i_update_core = 0;
 		if (iip)
 			iip->ili_format.ilf_fields = 0;
 		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
@@ -2533,26 +2531,6 @@ xfs_iflush_int(
 	/* set *dip = inode's place in the buffer */
 	dip = (xfs_dinode_t *)xfs_buf_offset(bp, ip->i_imap.im_boffset);
 
-	/*
-	 * Clear i_update_core before copying out the data.
-	 * This is for coordination with our timestamp updates
-	 * that don't hold the inode lock. They will always
-	 * update the timestamps BEFORE setting i_update_core,
-	 * so if we clear i_update_core after they set it we
-	 * are guaranteed to see their updates to the timestamps.
-	 * I believe that this depends on strongly ordered memory
-	 * semantics, but we have that.  We use the SYNCHRONIZE
-	 * macro to make sure that the compiler does not reorder
-	 * the i_update_core access below the data copy below.
-	 */
-	ip->i_update_core = 0;
-	SYNCHRONIZE();
-
-	/*
-	 * Make sure to get the latest timestamps from the Linux inode.
-	 */
-	xfs_synchronize_times(ip);
-
 	if (XFS_TEST_ERROR(dip->di_magic != cpu_to_be16(XFS_DINODE_MAGIC),
 			       mp, XFS_ERRTAG_IFLUSH_1, XFS_RANDOM_IFLUSH_1)) {
 		xfs_alert_tag(mp, XFS_PTAG_IFLUSH,
@@ -2711,8 +2689,7 @@ xfs_iflush_int(
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * We're flushing an inode which is not in the AIL and has
-		 * not been logged but has i_update_core set.  For this
-		 * case we can use a B_DELWRI flush and immediately drop
+		 * not been logged.  For this case we can immediately drop
 		 * the inode flush lock because we can avoid the whole
 		 * AIL state thing.  It's OK to drop the flush lock now,
 		 * because we've already locked the buffer and to do anything