Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/6] Btrfs: Add hot data relocation functionality

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 08:42 +0800, Hubert Kario wrote:
> On Thursday 26 of August 2010 04:13:43 Shaohua Li wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:22:00AM +0800, bchociej@gmail.com wrote:
> > > - Hooks in existing Btrfs functions to track data access frequency
> > > 
> > >   (btrfs_direct_IO, btrfs_readpages, and extent_write_cache_pages)
> > > 
> > > - New rbtrees for tracking access frequency of inodes and sub-file
> > > 
> > >   ranges (hotdata_map.c)
> > > 
> > > - A hash list for indexing data by its temperature (hotdata_hash.c)
> > > 
> > > - A debugfs interface for dumping data from the rbtrees (debugfs.c)
> > > 
> > > - A background kthread for relocating data to faster media based on
> > > 
> > >   temperature
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'm wondering if the temperature info can be exported to userspace, and
> > let a daemon to do the relocation (by ioctl). A userspace daemon is more
> > flexible.
> 
> Flexibility of userspace daemon is one thing, the ability to let the admin 
> precisely control on which drive data is placed could be really beneficial in 
> some scenarios is another thing.
> 
> This would also allow online defragmentation, together with access to 
> statistics, one that (for quick runs) has really good time/performance benefit 
> ratio.
Agreed, I'm thinking of the online defragmentation based on hot access
too. Btrfs usually has more fragment.