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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ke
Subject: Re: [RFC v2] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 00:04:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806070424.GD2109@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100805164504.GI2901@thunk.org>

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:45:04PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> P.S.  If it wasn't clear, I'm still in favor of trying to coordinate
> barriers across the whole file system, since that is much more likely
> to help use cases that arise in real life.

Ok.  I have a rough sketch of a patch to do that, and I was going to send it
out today, but the test machine caught on fire while I was hammering it with
the fsync tests one last time and ... yeah.  I'm fairly sure the patch didn't
cause the fire, but I'll check anyway after I finish cleaning up.

"[PATCH] ext4: Don't set my machine ablaze with barrier requests" :P

(The patch did seem to cut barrier requests counts by about 20% though the
impact on performance was pretty small.)

--D

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-29 23:51 [RFC] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages Darrick J. Wong
2010-05-04  0:57 ` Mingming Cao
2010-05-04 14:16   ` Ric Wheeler
2010-05-04 15:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-30 12:48       ` tytso
2010-06-30 13:21         ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 13:44           ` tytso
2010-06-30 13:54             ` Ric Wheeler
2010-06-30 19:05               ` Andreas Dilger
2010-07-21 17:16             ` Jan Kara
2010-08-03  0:09               ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-03  9:01                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04 18:16                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-03 13:21                 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-03 13:24         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-04 23:32           ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05  2:20             ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-05 16:17               ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 19:13                 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-08-05 20:39                   ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 20:44                     ` Jeff Moyer
2010-05-04 19:49     ` Mingming Cao
2010-06-29 20:51       ` [RFC v2] " Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-05 16:40         ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-05 16:45           ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-06  7:04             ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2010-08-06 10:17               ` Ric Wheeler
2010-08-09 19:53               ` [RFC v3] ext4: Combine barrier requests coming from fsync Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-09 21:07                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-16 16:14                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19  2:07                     ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19  8:53                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-19  9:17                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-19 15:48                           ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-09 21:19                 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-08-09 23:38                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-19  2:14                     ` [RFC v4] ext4: Coordinate fsync requests Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-23 18:31                       ` Performance testing of various barrier reduction patches [was: Re: [RFC v4] ext4: Coordinate fsync requests] Darrick J. Wong
2010-09-23 23:25                         ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-09-24  6:24                           ` Andreas Dilger
2010-09-24 11:44                             ` Ric Wheeler
2010-09-27 23:01                             ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-08 21:26                               ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-08 21:56                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-10-11 20:20                                   ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-12 14:14                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-15 23:39                                       ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-15 23:40                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-16  0:02                                           ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-11 14:33                                 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-18 22:49                                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2010-10-19 18:28                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-06  7:13           ` [RFC v2] ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages Darrick J. Wong
2010-08-06 18:04             ` Ted Ts'o
2010-08-09 19:36               ` Darrick J. Wong

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