From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] bdi: Create a flag to indicate that a backing device needs stable page writes
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:24:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5092B060.9070604@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121101085942.GA6584@quack.suse.cz>
On 11/01/2012 01:59 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
<>
> (all block device inodes share one superblock).
>
Really? that is not so good is it, for other obvious reasons.
Why is it not one superblock per BDI? That would be more obvious
to me.
> Thoughts?
It's a really bad design. I think it is worth fixing. For the above
problem, as well as a much better fit with our current thread-per-bdi,
and the rest of the Kernel model. No?
>
> Honza
>
Thanks
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-01 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-26 10:19 semi-stable page writes Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-27 1:35 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] bdi: Create a flag to indicate that a backing device needs stable " Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-29 18:13 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-29 18:30 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-29 23:48 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-30 0:10 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-30 0:34 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-30 13:38 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-30 21:49 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-30 4:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-10-30 4:48 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-30 12:19 ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-10-30 20:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-30 22:14 ` NeilBrown
2012-10-30 23:58 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-10-31 8:56 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-31 11:56 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-31 19:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-31 23:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-11-01 5:51 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-11-01 6:25 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-11-01 8:59 ` Jan Kara
2012-11-01 17:24 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2012-11-01 22:42 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-30 22:40 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-10-27 1:36 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] mm: Gate stable page writes on the bdi flag Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-29 18:28 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-31 8:58 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-29 22:01 ` semi-stable page writes Dave Chinner
2012-10-30 1:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-30 23:30 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-31 11:45 ` Jan Kara
2012-10-30 20:40 ` Darrick J. Wong
2012-10-30 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-31 9:05 ` Darrick J. Wong
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