From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] xfsdump: enable multiple streams
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:03:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320717814.3186.99.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1320699511-12281-9-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com>
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:58 -0600, Bill Kendall wrote:
> IRIX contained an environment referred to as "miniroot" where
> sproc threads were either not available, or at least not used
> in xfsdump. Throughout xfsdump there's a "miniroot" variable
> which indicates whether or not thread support is enabled. On
> Linux this variable has always been false in order to disable
> support for multiple streams.
>
> Now that the threading infracstructure has been converted over
> to pthreads, this patch removes the "miniroot" variable and
> enables the option of using multiple streams.
>
> Note that another feature in xfsdump, using a ring buffer for
> I/O to tapes, also depends on thread support. I'm leaving that
> disabled for now until more testing has been done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Really, really nice work Bill.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 20:58 [PATCH v2 0/8] xfsdump: enable support for multiple streams Bill Kendall
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] xfsdump: link with libpthread Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] xfsdump: remove multi-stream synchronous dir dump Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] xfsdump: implement lock abstraction with pthreads Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] xfsdump: simplify qlock ordinal bitmap Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] xfsdump: convert IRIX sproc threads to pthreads Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:02 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] xfsdump: process thread exit status Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:03 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] xfsdump: path lookup cache must be thread specific Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:03 ` Alex Elder
2011-11-07 20:58 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] xfsdump: enable multiple streams Bill Kendall
2011-11-08 2:03 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-11-10 11:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] xfsdump: enable support for " Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-10 16:22 ` Bill Kendall
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