From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Cc: Andrew.Morton.akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Andreas.Dilger.adilger@sun.com, Stephen.Tweedie.sct@redhat.com,
Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@nokia.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] HACK: do I/O read requests while ext3 journal recovers
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:26:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090714212625.GE4829@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090714140307.25993.26360.sendpatchset@ahunter-tower>
On Jul 14, 2009 17:03 +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> The ext3 journal can take a long time to recover at mount
> time. That was partially fixed by placing a barrier into
> the I/O queue and then not waiting for the actual I/O to
> complete.
Note that you can also reduce the journal recovery time by
reducing the size of the journal. Having a large journal
is needed for getting good performance with lots of updates
at high speeds. If you aren't doing a large amount of
filesystem IO (which I'd guess for an embedded device, assuming
you are using it for that), then you could reduce the size of
the journal to the minimum (1000 blocks) and this will also
reduce the recovery time correspondingly.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-14 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 14:02 [PATCH 0/2] ext3 HACKs Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 14:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] HACK: ext3: mount fast even when recovering Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 21:22 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-15 15:35 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] HACK: do I/O read requests while ext3 journal recovers Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 21:26 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-07-15 15:35 ` Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 15:51 ` [PATCH 0/2] ext3 HACKs Theodore Tso
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2009-07-14 14:05 Adrian Hunter
2009-07-14 14:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] HACK: do I/O read requests while ext3 journal recovers Adrian Hunter
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