From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
djwong@us.ibm.com, linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
Mingming Cao <mcao@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 16:39:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100805203928.GM2901@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x49pqxwc1p3.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:13:44PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> > IO_CMD_FSYNC doesn't exist right now, but sure, it means we don't have
>
> Well, there's IOCB_CMD_FSYNC. But still, this isn't the same thing as
> what's requested. If I understand correctly, what is requested is a
> mechanism to flush out all data for multiple file descriptors and follow
> that with a single barrier/flush (and yes, Ted did give a summary of the
> commands that would be required to accomplish that).
>
> There still remains the question of why this should be tied to the AIO
> submission interface.
I don't think it should, personally. The only excuse might be if
someone wanted to do an asynchronous fsync(), but I don't think that
makes sense in most cases.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-05 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-29 23:51 [RFC] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages Darrick J. Wong
2010-05-04 0:57 ` Mingming Cao
2010-05-04 14:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-05-04 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 12:48 ` tytso
2010-06-30 13:21 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 13:21 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 13:44 ` tytso
2010-06-30 13:54 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 13:54 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 19:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-07-21 17:16 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-21 17:16 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-03 0:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-03 9:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04 18:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-03 13:21 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-03 13:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-03 13:24 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-04 23:32 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 2:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-05 2:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-05 16:17 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 19:13 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-08-05 20:39 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-08-05 20:44 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-05-04 19:49 ` Mingming Cao
2010-06-29 20:51 ` [RFC v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-05 16:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 16:45 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 16:45 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-06 7:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-06 7:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-06 10:17 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-08-09 19:53 ` [RFC v3] ext4: Combine barrier requests coming from fsync Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-09 19:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-09 21:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-16 16:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19 2:07 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-19 9:17 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 15:48 ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-09 21:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-08-09 23:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19 2:14 ` [RFC v4] ext4: Coordinate fsync requests Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-23 18:31 ` Performance testing of various barrier reduction patches [was: Re: [RFC v4] ext4: Coordinate fsync requests] Darrick J. Wong
2010-09-23 23:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-09-24 6:24 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-09-24 11:44 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-09-27 23:01 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-08 21:26 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-08 21:56 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-10-11 20:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-12 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-15 23:39 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-15 23:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 0:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-11 14:33 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-18 22:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-19 18:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-06 7:13 ` [RFC v2] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-06 7:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-06 18:04 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-09 19:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-09 19:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
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