From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "David Chinner" <dgc@sgi.com>,
"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Mark Williamson" <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>,
"Morten Bøgeskov" <xen-users@morten.bogeskov.dk>,
xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:25:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015042546.GI995458@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4712EA09.6000102@goop.org>
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:18:17PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> David Chinner wrote:
> > With defaults - little effect as vmap should never be used. It's
> > only when you start using larger block sizes for metadata that this
> > becomes an issue. The CONFIG_XEN workaround should be fine until we
> > get a proper vmap cache....
>
> Hm, well I saw the problem with a filesystem made with mkfs.xfs with no
> options, so there must be at least *some* vmapping going on there.
Sorry - I should have been more precise - vmap should never be used in
performance critical paths on default configs. Log recovery will
trigger vmap/vunmap usage, so this is probably what you are seeing.
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-12 16:58 Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-12 17:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-14 22:56 ` David Chinner
2007-10-14 23:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-14 23:33 ` David Chinner
2007-10-15 4:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 0:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 7:26 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 3:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 4:11 ` David Chinner
2007-10-15 4:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-15 4:25 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-10-15 8:31 ` [xfs-masters] " Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-22 3:18 ` dean gaudet
2007-10-22 3:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 4:28 ` dean gaudet
2007-10-22 4:39 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-22 18:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 18:32 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 13:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-22 18:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 19:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-22 19:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-22 22:32 ` David Chinner
2007-10-22 23:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 0:16 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-10-23 0:36 ` David Chinner
2007-10-23 7:04 ` [patch] " David Chinner
2007-10-23 9:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-23 12:41 ` David Chinner
2007-10-23 14:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-24 4:36 ` [PATCH] Allow lazy unmapping by taking extra page references V2 David Chinner
2007-10-24 5:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-24 21:48 ` [PATCH] Allow lazy unmapping by taking extra page references V3 David Chinner
2007-10-24 22:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-24 23:21 ` David Chinner
2007-10-23 9:28 ` Interaction between Xen and XFS: stray RW mappings Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 9:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 14:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 11:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-15 11:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 12:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-21 12:17 ` Dave Airlie
2007-10-21 22:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-22 9:49 ` Andi Kleen
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