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From: Anand Jain <Anand.Jain@oracle.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, dsterba@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v4] btrfs-progs: optimize btrfs_scan_lblkid() for multiple calls
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:04:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54536CDA.4090901@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141031090830.GP10134@x2.net.home>





On 31/10/2014 17:08, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:11:20PM +0800, Anand Jain wrote:
>> btrfs_scan_lblikd() is called by most the device related command functions.
>> And btrfs_scan_lblkid() is most expensive function and it becomes more expensive
>> as number of devices in the system increase. Further some threads call this
>
> wouldn't be possible to ask udev rather than scan all devices? I
> understand than in some cases it's necessary to have robust and
> independent solution, but for usual use-cases it would be less
> expensive to read the info from udev where we already keep track about
> all block devices and where we call libblkid.
>
> It would be possible to implement it as optional feature (#ifdev HAVE_LIBUDEV),
> the library API is very easy to use.
>
> (For example lsblk uses libblkid as fallback, the default is udev).
>
>      Karel
>
>

I might be missing something, correct me if wrong. Is there any udev API 
which gives me a list of devices which hold btrfs ? I just browsed
through there isn't any.

Anand

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-31 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-15  0:51 [PATCH 1/2] btrfs-progs: introduce btrfs_register_all_device() Anand Jain
2014-10-15  0:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs-progs: optimize btrfs_scan_lblkid() for multiple calls Anand Jain
2014-10-23  6:30   ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Anand Jain
2014-10-30 14:18     ` David Sterba
2014-10-31  1:38       ` Anand Jain
2014-10-31  3:19   ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] " Anand Jain
2014-10-30 14:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs-progs: introduce btrfs_register_all_device() David Sterba
2014-10-31  2:28   ` Anand Jain
2014-10-31  4:11 ` [PATCH 1/2 v4] " Anand Jain
2014-10-31  4:11   ` [PATCH 2/2 v4] btrfs-progs: optimize btrfs_scan_lblkid() for multiple calls Anand Jain
2014-10-31  9:08     ` Karel Zak
2014-10-31 11:04       ` Anand Jain [this message]
2014-11-11 11:47         ` Karel Zak
2014-11-14 16:51           ` David Sterba
2014-11-28  9:33             ` Karel Zak

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