From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linuxram@linux.vnet.ibm.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, marco.stornelli@gmail.com,
stroetmann@ontolinux.com, diegocg@gmail.com, chris@csamuel.org,
Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 03/10] vfs: add one new mount option '-o hottrack'
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:20:45 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927022045.GK15236@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH94Li+-nz58P=SwNDq5itDR+PqLhhmqEzMGgO219CyC4RRKA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:56:08AM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 08:56:28PM +0800, zwu.kernel@gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> Introduce one new mount option '-o hottrack',
> >> and add its parsing support.
> >> Its usage looks like:
> >> mount -o hottrack
> >> mount -o nouser,hottrack
> >> mount -o nouser,hottrack,loop
> >> mount -o hottrack,nouser
> >
> > I think that this option parsing should be done by the filesystem,
> > even though the tracking functionality is in the VFS. That way ony
> > the filesystems that can use the tracking information will turn it
> > on, rather than being able to turn it on for everything regardless
> > of whether it is useful or not.
> >
> > Along those lines, just using a normal superblock flag to indicate
> > it is active (e.g. MS_HOT_INODE_TRACKING in sb->s_flags) means you
> > don't need to allocate the sb->s_hot_info structure just to be able
> > to check whether we are tracking hot inodes or not.
> >
> > This then means the hot inode tracking for the superblock can be
> > initialised by the filesystem as part of it's fill_super method,
> > along with the filesystem specific code that will use the hot
> > tracking information the VFS gathers....
> I can see what you mean, but don't know if other guys also agree with this.
> If so, all FS specific code which use hot tracking feature wll have to add
> the same chunk of code in it fill_super method. Is it good?
Most filesystems will only need to add 3-4 lines of code to their
existing parser, so it's not a big deal I think...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-27 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-23 12:56 [RFC v2 00/10] vfs: hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 01/10] vfs: introduce private rb structures zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 7:37 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-25 7:57 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25 8:00 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25 10:20 ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26 3:20 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 02/10] vfs: add support for updating access frequency zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:17 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26 2:53 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 2:19 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 2:30 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 03/10] vfs: add one new mount option '-o hottrack' zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:28 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26 2:56 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 2:20 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-09-27 2:30 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 5:25 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 7:05 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:21 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 04/10] vfs: add init and exit support zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 2:27 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 05/10] vfs: introduce one hash table zwu.kernel
2012-09-25 9:54 ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26 4:08 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 3:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:23 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 6:57 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:10 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 06/10] vfs: enable hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 3:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:28 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 6:59 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:12 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 07/10] vfs: fork one kthread to update data temperature zwu.kernel
2012-09-27 4:03 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 6:54 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27 7:01 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27 7:19 ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 08/10] vfs: add 3 new ioctl interfaces zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 09/10] vfs: add debugfs support zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 10/10] vfs: add documentation zwu.kernel
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