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From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>, xfs <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	jack <jack@suse.cz>, axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	dchinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: buffered writeback torture program
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:00:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303408265-sup-2454@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110421174120.GA7267@infradead.org>

Excerpts from Christoph Hellwig's message of 2011-04-21 13:41:21 -0400:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:34:44PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Sorry, this doesn't do it.  I think that given what a strange special
> > case this is, we're best off waiting for the IO-less throttling, and
> > maybe changing the code in xfs/ext4 to be a little more seek aware.  Or
> > maybe not, it has to get written eventually either way.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean with seek aware.  XFS only clusters
> additional pages that are in the same extent, and in fact only does
> so for asynchrononous writeback.  Not sure how this should be more
> seek aware.
> 

How big are extents?  fiemap tells me the file has a single 8GB extent.

There's a little room for seeking inside there.

-chris

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20 18:23 buffered writeback torture program Chris Mason
2011-04-20 22:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-21 11:09   ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 15:25     ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 15:35       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-21 16:55       ` Jan Kara
2011-04-21 16:57         ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 20:44           ` Jan Kara
2011-04-21  8:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 17:34   ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 17:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 17:59       ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-21 18:02         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 18:02           ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 18:08             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 18:29               ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 18:43                 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-04-21 18:47                   ` Chris Mason
2011-04-21 18:00       ` Chris Mason [this message]

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