From: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Introduce new O_HOT and O_COLD flags
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:07:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96CFDD.2070001@dreamhost.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334863211-19504-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
On 04/19/2012 02:20 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As I had brought up during one of the lightning talks at the Linux
> Storage and Filesystem workshop, I am interested in introducing two new
> open flags, O_HOT and O_COLD. These flags are passed down to the
> individual file system's inode operations' create function, and the file
> system can use these flags as a hint regarding whether the file is
> likely to be accessed frequently or not.
>
> In the future I plan to do further work on how ext4 would use these
> flags, but I want to first get the ability to pass these flags plumbed
> into the VFS layer and the code points for O_HOT and O_COLD reserved.
Consider this: Is this a testable feature?
You're proposing a hint, of course, so it could just have no effect.
But let's just assume for the sake of discussion that it has been
implemented.
How will I (filesystem implementer) know whether I have implemented
it correctly?
How can the user verify that the use of these flags is producing
the expected result?
-Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 19:20 [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Introduce new O_HOT and O_COLD flags Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-19 19:20 ` [PATCH, RFC 1/3] fs: add new open flags O_HOT and O_COLD Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-19 19:20 ` [PATCH, RFC 2/3] fs: propagate the open_flags structure down to the low-level fs's create() Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-19 19:20 ` [PATCH, RFC 3/3] ext4: use the O_HOT and O_COLD open flags to influence inode allocation Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-19 19:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-04-19 19:59 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-19 22:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-04-19 23:27 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-20 2:26 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-21 0:57 ` Dave Chinner
2012-04-20 0:26 ` [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Introduce new O_HOT and O_COLD flags Alex Elder
2012-04-20 2:45 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-20 9:31 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-04-20 9:12 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-04-20 9:45 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-04-20 11:01 ` James Bottomley
2012-04-20 11:23 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-04-20 14:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-04-20 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2012-04-20 14:58 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-21 23:56 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-22 6:30 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-23 8:23 ` James Bottomley
2012-04-23 11:47 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 6:18 ` Nick Piggin
2012-04-24 15:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-04-21 18:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-04-20 10:16 ` Bernd Schubert
2012-04-20 10:38 ` Lukas Czerner
2012-04-21 18:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2012-04-24 16:07 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2012-04-24 19:33 ` Jamie Lokier
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