From: Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@bull.net>
To: Avantika Mathur <mathur@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (October 1, 2007)
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:24:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47020E59.1070609@bull.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47017053.9060005@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Avantika Mathur wrote:
> Multiple Block Allocation:
> - Main outstanding issue is still need for better documentation of the
> code.
> - Aneesh has marked the places that need explanation with fixme, and
> Alex will be adding the needed comments. If this gets done quickly, we
> can try to push this feature to 2.6.24
> - Aneesh has asked for recommendations for a benchmark to run which will
> test the mballoc allocator. Mingming suggested using dd and dbench, as
> was done in the past for basic mballoc patches. To test the in-core
> preallocation, kernel untar tests. Look at the file fragmentation after
> running the test.
Currently, the mballoc feature is not compatible with the uninit_groups
feature. I have just tried a simple test which failed. Isn't this a problem?
Another point that is not clear for me, is mballoc compatible with
delalloc now, or is there still a restriction?
Valérie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 9:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 22:10 Ext4 devel interlock meeting minutes (October 1, 2007) Avantika Mathur
2007-10-02 5:58 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-02 14:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-02 9:24 ` Valerie Clement [this message]
2007-10-02 11:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-02 14:12 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-10-02 18:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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