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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: simplify extent_buffer reading and writing v2
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 02:05:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230324010527.GA12152@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230314061655.245340-1-hch@lst.de>

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 07:16:34AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> currently reading and writing of extent_buffers is very complicated as it
> tries to work in a page oriented way.  Switch as much as possible to work
> based on the extent_buffer object to simplify the code.
> 
> I suspect in the long run switching to dedicated object based writeback
> and reclaim similar to the XFS buffer cache would be a good idea, but as
> that involves pretty big behavior changes that's better left for a
> separate series.

Dave, and comment on where this stands?

With the series we don't need bbio->inode for metadata and could
actually do the fs_info pointer Qu needs in a nice way.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-24  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-14  6:16 simplify extent_buffer reading and writing v2 Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 01/21] btrfs: mark extent_buffer_under_io static Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 02/21] btrfs: fix sub-page error bit in end_bio_subpage_eb_writepage Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  8:06   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-03-14  8:12     ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 03/21] btrfs: move setting the buffer uptodate out of validate_extent_buffer Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 04/21] btrfs: merge verify_parent_transid and btrfs_buffer_uptodate Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 05/21] btrfs: always read the entire extent_buffer Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14 10:51   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 06/21] btrfs: simplify extent buffer reading Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 07/21] btrfs: remove the mirror_num argument to btrfs_submit_compressed_read Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 08/21] btrfs: simplify the read_extent_buffer end_io handler Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 09/21] btrfs: do not try to unlock the extent for non-subpage metadata reads Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 10/21] btrfs: return bool from lock_extent_buffer_for_io Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 11/21] btrfs: submit a writeback bio per extent_buffer Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 12/21] btrfs: move page locking from lock_extent_buffer_for_io to write_one_eb Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 13/21] btrfs: simplify extent buffer writing Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 14/21] btrfs: simplify the extent_buffer write end_io handler Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14 10:53   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 15/21] btrfs: simplify btree block checksumming Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 16/21] btrfs: remove the io_pages field in struct extent_buffer Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 17/21] btrfs: stop using PageError for extent_buffers Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 18/21] btrfs: don't check for uptodate pages in read_extent_buffer_pages Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 19/21] btrfs: stop using lock_extent in btrfs_buffer_uptodate Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 20/21] btrfs: use per-buffer locking for extent_buffer reading Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-14  6:16 ` [PATCH 21/21] btrfs: merge write_one_subpage_eb into write_one_eb Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-24  1:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-03-31 16:39   ` simplify extent_buffer reading and writing v2 David Sterba

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