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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:21:58 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213222158.GE3179@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208155918.662107724@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:58:02AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Replace i_pin_wait, which is only used during synchronous inode flushing
> with a bit waitqueue.  This trades off a much smaller inode against
> slightly slower wakeup performance, and saves 12 (32-bit) or 20 (64-bit)
> bytes in the XFS inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Looks fine - the pinning code never modifies the i_flags field, so
doesn't require the i_flags_lock anywhere so the concerns i had
about the previous patch are not relevant here...

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08 15:57 [PATCH 00/11] inode shrink and misc updates Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:57 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: remove xfs_itruncate_data Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 21:23   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-08 15:57 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: cleanup xfs_iomap_eof_align_last_fsb Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 21:25   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-08 15:57 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: remove the unused dm_attrs structure Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:57 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: remove the if_ext_max field in struct xfs_ifork Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 21:59   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: make i_flags an unsigned long Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-13 19:07   ` Ben Myers
2012-01-24 18:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlock Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 22:19   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-18 18:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 22:21   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: remove the i_size field in struct xfs_inode Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 22:58   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: remove the i_new_size " Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 23:16   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-14 13:30     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: always return with the iolock held from xfs_file_aio_write_checks Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 23:20   ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-14 13:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: cleanup xfs_file_aio_write Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 23:28   ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-18 20:00 [PATCH 00/11] inode shrink and misc updates V2 Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-13 22:42   ` Ben Myers

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