From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfs: use shared ilock mode for direct IO writes by default
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:01:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7B2CE0.6010506@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327143826.969369776@bombadil.infradead.org>
On 03/27/12 09:34, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> For the direct IO write path, we only really need the ilock to be taken in
> exclusive mode during IO submission if we need to do extent allocation
> instaled of all the time.
>
> Change the block mapping code to take the ilock in shared mode for the
> initial block mapping, and only retake it exclusively when we actually
> have to perform extent allocations. We were already dropping the ilock
> for the transaction allocation, so this doesn't introduce new race windows.
>
> Based on an earlier patch from Dave Chinner.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 14:34 [PATCH 0/5] reduce exclusive ilock hold times V2 Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: avoid taking the ilock unnessecarily in xfs_qm_dqattach Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-02 19:24 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs: reduce ilock hold times in xfs_file_aio_write_checks Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-02 19:26 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-19 20:30 ` Ben Myers
2012-03-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs: reduce ilock hold times in xfs_setattr_size Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-02 19:26 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-04-19 21:00 ` Ben Myers
2012-04-19 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: push the ilock into xfs_zero_eof Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-02 20:39 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-03-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: use shared ilock mode for direct IO writes by default Christoph Hellwig
2012-04-03 17:01 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2012-03-27 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/5] reduce exclusive ilock hold times V2 Dave Chinner
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2012-03-26 21:14 [PATCH 0/5] reduce exclusive ilock hold times Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-26 21:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: use shared ilock mode for direct IO writes by default Christoph Hellwig
2012-03-27 1:39 ` Dave Chinner
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