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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>,
	linux-bcache <linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] bcache: back to cache all readahead I/Os
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:14:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d72473b-db79-d32a-055c-05a34f2d2b12@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6373da22-9dc1-9525-4048-2c533407c917@suse.de>

On 1/23/20 5:49 PM, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2020/1/24 2:31 上午, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 1/23/20 10:27 AM, Coly Li wrote:
>>> On 2020/1/24 1:19 上午, Michael Lyle wrote:
>>>> Hi Coly and Jens--
>>>>
>>>> One concern I have with this is that it's going to wear out
>>>> limited-lifetime SSDs a -lot- faster.  Was any thought given to making
>>>> this a tunable instead of just changing the behavior?  Even if we have
>>>> an anecdote or two that it seems to have increased performance for
>>>> some workloads, I don't expect it will have increased performance in
>>>> general and it may even be costly for some workloads (it all comes
>>>> down to what is more useful in the cache-- somewhat-recently readahead
>>>> data, or the data that it is displacing).
>>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Copied. This is good suggestion, I will do it after I back from Lunar
>>> New Year vacation, and submit it with other tested patches in following
>>> v5.6-rc versions.
>>
>> Do you want me to just drop this patch for now from the series?
>>
> Hi Jens,
> 
> OK, please drop this patch from this series. I will re-submit the patch
> with sysfs interface later with other patches.

Sounds good, I queued up the rest for 5.6.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-24  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-23 17:01 [PATCH 00/17] bcache patches for Linux v5.6 colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 01/17] bcache: cached_dev_free needs to put the sb page colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 02/17] bcache: use a separate data structure for the on-disk super block colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 03/17] bcache: rework error unwinding in register_bcache colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 04/17] bcache: properly initialize 'path' and 'err' in register_bcache() colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 05/17] bcache: fix use-after-free " colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 06/17] bcache: transfer the sb_page reference to register_{bdev,cache} colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 07/17] bcache: return a pointer to the on-disk sb from read_super colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 08/17] bcache: store a pointer to the on-disk sb in the cache and cached_dev structures colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 09/17] bcache: use read_cache_page_gfp to read the superblock colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 10/17] lib: crc64: include <linux/crc64.h> for 'crc64_be' colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 11/17] bcache: add code comments for state->pool in __btree_sort() colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 12/17] bcache: avoid unnecessary btree nodes flushing in btree_flush_write() colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 13/17] bcache: print written and keys in trace_bcache_btree_write colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 14/17] bcache: back to cache all readahead I/Os colyli
2020-01-23 17:19   ` Michael Lyle
2020-01-23 17:27     ` Coly Li
2020-01-23 18:31       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-24  0:49         ` Coly Li
2020-01-24  1:14           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-01-24 16:48       ` Michael Lyle
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 15/17] bcache: remove member accessed from struct btree colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 16/17] bcache: reap c->btree_cache_freeable from the tail in bch_mca_scan() colyli
2020-01-23 17:01 ` [PATCH 17/17] bcache: reap from tail of c->btree_cache " colyli

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