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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
	Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7.1] block: Coordinate flush requests
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:41:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110121064149.GH27381@tux1.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110120191341.GB4701@htj.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:13:41PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:50:57PM +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:12:55AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > This makes sense. would it possible N flush data payloads delay the
> > > first request?
> > 
> > I ended up with a different design.  Still buggy.  It triggers a weird
> > oops under stress test but other than that things generally seem to
> > work as expected.  Please read the comment at the top of blk-flush.c
> > for more info.  I'll post properly after more testing and debugging.
> 
> The oops was caused by debugging code I put in (not posted together).
> It runs fine without it, so if you have some time, please give it a
> spin.

Seems to run without incident on my storage test arrays.  The fsync-happy
performance numbers are comparable to previous iterations of flush patches.
Looks good, thank you!

--D

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-13  2:56 [PATCH v7.1] block: Coordinate flush requests Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-13  5:38 ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-13  7:46   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-14  1:00     ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-14 21:00       ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-15 17:32       ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-18  1:12         ` Shaohua Li
2011-01-20 18:50           ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-20 19:13             ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-21  6:41               ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2011-01-13 10:42 ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-13 18:59   ` Darrick J. Wong
2011-01-15 13:33     ` Tejun Heo
2011-01-19  8:58       ` Darrick J. Wong

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