From: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: tinguely@sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/10] xfs: add XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:46:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018154615.GH1377@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507FF339.8020208@redhat.com>
Hey Brian,
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:16:57AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 06:40 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:39:01PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:49:02AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:46:26PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> >>>> Hey Brian,
> >>>>
> ...
> >>>> I do think it is preferable to have a test case go in with the code where
> >>>> possible. Since you don't mind waiting a bit, that seems to be the way to go.
> >>>> The other option could be to look for a volunteer to work on the test. ;)
> >>>
> >>> FWIW, given the background cleanup code can be trivially verified to
> >>> work (open, apend, close, repeat, wait 5 minutes) and is the
> >>> functionality that is needed in mainline, having something to test
> >>> the ioctls should not stop the patchset from being merged.
> >
> > Can we be assured that we'll get an xfstest for it eventually?
> >
>
> Absolutely. Getting a command into xfs_io to support such a test is now
> the top of my todo list with regard to XFS. :)
Excellent!
> > I think we can pull this in if Brian is willing post his test code. Initially
> > it needn't be posted as an xfstest, that's fine. As it stands today it appears
> > that Brian is the only one to ever use the ioctl and there is no way for anyone
> > else to test it. Not an ideal situation.
> >
>
> The impetus for this work was some prototype quota work for the gluster
> distributed filesystem.
Now I'm curious where you're coming from. Is gluster your primary project?
> Beyond testing via that, I just had a very
> simple/stupid program with the command and data structure bits
> copy/pasted in to open a file and invoke an xfsctl() with hardcoded
> parameters. I don't consider it post-worthy or very useful, but attached
> nonetheless since I have a couple things to deal with before I get a
> chance to play with xfs_io.
Thanks for posting it anyway. That's enough for an interested party to do a
little fooling. I believe Mark is finishing up a review of this series, so
we'll get it in soon.
Regards,
Ben
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-05 14:17 [PATCH v5 00/10] speculative preallocation inode tracking Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] xfs: add EOFBLOCKS inode tagging/untagging Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] xfs: support a tag-based inode_ag_iterator Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] xfs: create helper to check whether to free eofblocks on inode Brian Foster
2012-10-23 0:58 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] xfs: make xfs_free_eofblocks() non-static, return EAGAIN on trylock failure Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] xfs: create function to scan and clear EOFBLOCKS inodes Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:01 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] xfs: add XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl Brian Foster
2012-10-11 14:13 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-11 22:35 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-15 22:46 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-15 23:49 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-16 1:39 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-17 22:40 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-18 12:16 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-18 15:46 ` Ben Myers [this message]
2012-10-18 16:23 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-22 7:34 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-22 13:23 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-22 22:22 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-23 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 16:16 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-24 19:27 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] xfs: make xfs_quota_type() non-static Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] xfs: add quota id filtering to eofblocks scan Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:42 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 16:18 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-24 19:41 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 23:02 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-25 0:02 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-25 0:29 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] xfs: add minimum file size " Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] xfs: add background scanning to clear eofblocks inodes Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:55 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-19 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] speculative preallocation inode tracking Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 14:00 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-21 17:53 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 20:31 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 22:28 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-23 19:10 ` Ben Myers
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