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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: "bo.li.liu@oracle.com" <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Btrfs: avoid building inode cache repeatly
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:09:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1387206565.18897.4.camel@ret.masoncoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1387178735-30832-2-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com>

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On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 15:25 +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> Inode cache is similar to free space cache and in fact shares the same
> code, however, we don't load inode cache unless we're about to allocate
> inode id, then there is a case where we only commit the transaction during
> other operations, such as snapshot creation, we now update fs roots' generation
> to the new transaction id, after that when we want to load the inode cache,
> we'll find that it's not valid thanks to the mismatch of generation, and we
> have to push btrfs-ino-cache thread to build inode cache from disk, and
> this operation is sometimes time-costing.
> 
> So to fix the above, we load inode cache into memory during reading fs root.

Please reorder these so the patch that causes problems comes after the
patches that fix the problems ;)  IOW, please make it bisect friendly.

-chris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-16 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-16  7:25 [PATCH v2 0/3] Btrfs: inode cache fixes Liu Bo
2013-12-16  7:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] Btrfs: avoid building inode cache repeatly Liu Bo
2013-12-16  9:04   ` Miao Xie
2013-12-16 10:26     ` Liu Bo
2013-12-16 10:54       ` Miao Xie
2013-12-16 15:09   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2013-12-16  7:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] Btrfs: don't build inode cache for orphan root Liu Bo
2013-12-16  7:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] Btrfs: fix EEXIST error when creating new file in subvolume/snapshot Liu Bo

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