From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:57:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101016075728.GT19147@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286928961-15157-19-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:16:01AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
> move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
> For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
> the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
> by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
> any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
> it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
> but that's left for later patches.
My patch for this reduces churn by just adding a new function instead.
The last_ino allocator is really fast now, so IMO it was not worth
the churn to go through filesystems; just let them do it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-16 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-13 0:15 fs: Inode cache scalability V3 Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 01/18] kernel: add bl_list Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 02/18] fs: Convert nr_inodes and nr_unused to per-cpu counters Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 03/18] fs: Implement lazy LRU updates for inodes Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16 7:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 04/18] fs: inode split IO and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 05/18] fs: Clean up inode reference counting Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 11:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 06/18] exofs: use iput() for inode reference count decrements Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 11:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 14:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-17 1:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-24 18:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 07/18] fs: rework icount to be a locked variable Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 11:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16 0:15 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16 0:20 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-16 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 08/18] fs: Factor inode hash operations into functions Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 09/18] fs: Introduce per-bucket inode hash locks Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 11:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 15:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 10/18] fs: add a per-superblock lock for the inode list Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 11/18] fs: split locking of inode writeback and LRU lists Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 3:26 ` Lin Ming
2010-10-13 3:26 ` Lin Ming
2010-10-13 13:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 12/18] fs: Protect inode->i_state with the inode->i_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 13:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 13/18] fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 14/18] fs: Make iunique independent of inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 15/18] fs: icache remove inode_lock Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 2:09 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 13:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:15 ` [PATCH 16/18] fs: Reduce inode I_FREEING and factor inode disposal Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 13:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:16 ` [PATCH 17/18] fs: split __inode_add_to_list Dave Chinner
2010-10-13 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 0:16 ` [PATCH 18/18] fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode Dave Chinner
2010-10-16 7:57 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-10-16 16:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 14:51 ` fs: Inode cache scalability V3 Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 21:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 23:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-13 23:55 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-14 0:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
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