From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow goal inode to be specified
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:48:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090613154811.GL24336@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090610202702.GI9002@webber.adilger.int>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:27:02PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Allow a goal inode to be specified when allocating new inodes.
> If the goal is within the range of valid inodes use this in
> preference to one of the other target inode heuristics (Orlov or
> parent directory).
>
> The goal inode can be specified via /sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal for
> testing inode allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems,
> and in the future will be used for large xattr inode allocation.
This patch didn't quite apply against the mainline ext4, and in
addition it conflicted with a patch to keep the choice of Orlov topdir
inode numbers stable for the purposes of benchmarking. So instead I
dropped the following two patches into the ext4 patch queue.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-13 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-10 20:27 [PATCH] allow goal inode to be specified Andreas Dilger
2009-06-13 15:48 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-06-13 16:33 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Use a hash of the topdir directory name for the Orlov parent group Theodore Ts'o
2009-06-13 16:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext4: teach the inode allocator to use a goal inode number Theodore Ts'o
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