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From: "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Adding META_BG/FLEX_BG awareness to inode allocator.
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:44:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070821164406.2eec74db@gara> (raw)

Hi Andreas, Ted,

I've been looking at the uninitialized block group patches to see how
they overlap with the uninitialized inode tables that I was looking
into for FLEX_BG and I think I can achieve the same thing using those
patches.  One of the things I wanted to achieve with uninitialized
inode tables was to pack inode for the same META/FLEX_BG and allocate
new inode tables as we ran out a pre-initialized inodes.  This is
something that applies to FLEX_BG since the layout of the meta-data has
changed.

It seams that the only thing that would prevent the uninitialized block
group patches from doing this is ialloc.c unawareness of
META_BG/FLEX_BG.  It seems like this is a good excuse to make inode and
block allocation algorithms aware of the new meta-data layout.

I could add META_BG/FLEX_BG awareness and see how the
allocation/initialization of inode changes and also see what sort of
performance impacts we see by these changes. 

Thoughts?

-JRS

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