Re: Btrfs conf call

Morey Roof
2008-08-13T21:02:30Z

Thank you. Also, did they get around to talking about when they are
going to merge in some of the queued up patches?

-Morey

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:22 -0400, jim owens wrote:
> Morey Roof wrote:
> > Could someone write a quick recap of this for those of us who are
> > interested and happened to miss it?
>
> Everyone on the call seems to be waiting for someone else
> to respond. I'll do it just to make up for dedup :)
>
> - Chris said he saw major performance problems from pdflush
> and he is currently working on a btrfs thread to fix this.
>
> - Eric has been testing v0.16 single-stream-write performance
> and is seeing kswapd issues (also part of Chris's fix)
> and will take Chris's code as soon as it is ready.
>
> - Josef is rewriting the in-memory extent allocator to make
> it perform much better and will also fix multithreading.
>
> - Ming Ming and Chris will try to arrange a general
> breakout session for all filesystems at the plumber's
> conference in september. (Chris is presenting a talk
> on btrfs at the conference)
>
> - I listened and contributed only this synopsis.
>
> jim