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From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	darrick.wong@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] e2scrub_all: refactor device probe loop
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 22:14:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190321211437.qdbvjmbwaaji3id6@work> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190321204823.GJ9434@mit.edu>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 04:48:23PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:17:10PM +0100, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > 
> > Right, I did mention it later in the reply. It can be filtered
> > 
> > grep -v '^/dev/'
> 
> Well, that assumes all device nodes are in /dev.  Which is not
> necessarily always the case, especially in some of the more _whacky_
> container setups which I've seen.   (Hmm, is whacky redundant here?)

Fair enough, I've never seen this outside dm/lvm testing.

> 
> I suppose can test whether or not the path is a block device or a
> directory.....
> 
> > 
> > For me this new function is the wors of all.
> > 
> > cold cache:
> > real	0m2.115s
> > user	0m0.040s
> > sys	0m0.154s
> > 
> > second time:
> > real	0m1.100s
> > user	0m0.037s
> > sys	0m0.122s
> > 
> > But that's because of blkid which is terribly slow for some reason.
> 
> I ran my test on a system with a NVMe SSD, and no HDD's attached.  I
> just did an strace, and I see the util-linux folks have really done a
> great job of pessimizing blkid.  :-(

Yeah, all I have on that system is spinning rust :)
lsblk works good enough for me so I am not sure how I feel about special
binary to check the mount point :)

-Lukas

> 
> My version used to just pull the information from the blkid cache file
> and then verified the results, but it looks like the new, improved
> util-linux version of blkid scans the /dev directory and opens and
> reads from each device node, even when we're querying a single block
> device.  <groan>
> 
> Even lsblk is *amazingly* inefficient in terms of the number of
> useless file opens which it performs, although at least they are all
> /sysfs files.
> 
> I'm half tempted to create and ship a binary which just calls
> ext2fs_check_mount_point() and returns the value, since it's the most
> efficient.  This command
> 
> sudo strace -o /tmp/st /build/e2fsprogs-maint/lib/ext2fs/tst_ismounted  /dev/lambda/tp
> 
> Opens /proc/mounts and does a trial mount of /dev/lambda/tp to make
> sure it's actually busy, and that's it.
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> 						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-21 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-21  2:02 [PATCH 1/9] e2scrub: check to make sure lvm2 is installed Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 2/9] debian: drop lvm2 from the recommends line Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  3:57   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 3/9] Fix "make install-strip" Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 4/9] e2scrub: fix up "make install-strip" support Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 5/9] e2fscrub: add the -n option which shows what commands e2scrub would execute Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  3:59   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21 10:57   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 14:32     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 6/9] e2scrub_all: add the -n option which shows what e2scrub_all would do Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  4:01   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 7/9] e2scrub_all: make sure there's enough free space for a snapshot Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  4:02   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21 11:18   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 14:26     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 8/9] e2scrub_all: refactor device probe loop Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  4:05   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21 10:27   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 14:31     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 15:57       ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 18:24         ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 20:17           ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 20:48             ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 21:14               ` Lukas Czerner [this message]
2019-03-21 22:04               ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 22:08                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-22  9:38                   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 20:09         ` Andreas Dilger
2019-03-21 17:48     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 19:49       ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 20:23         ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 16:10   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21  2:02 ` [PATCH 9/9] e2scrub,e2scrub_all: print a (more understandable) error if not run as root Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  4:04   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-03-21 11:36   ` Lukas Czerner
2019-03-21 14:40     ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21  3:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] e2scrub: check to make sure lvm2 is installed Darrick J. Wong
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-03-21 20:25 [PATCH -v2 0/9] e2fsprogs: e2scrub cleanups Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 20:25 ` [PATCH 8/9] e2scrub_all: refactor device probe loop Theodore Ts'o
2019-03-21 20:55   ` Lukas Czerner

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