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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Abhijit Paithankar <apaithan@akamai.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Filesystem Journal Notifications
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:23:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080915132357.GA10973@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080912220649.GB26999@apaithan-desktop.sanmateo.corp.akamai.com>

Abhijit Paithankar wrote:
> One way to do it is to fsync every few operations. However, fsync is
> blocking and affects performance.
>
> The other (more efficient) way is to have the filesystem notify the
> application when a transaction/change is written to disk.

Is this more efficient than aio_fsync, and if so, why?

For file writes, aio_fsync seems like a cleaner interface, and if
that's not fast enough, it could be made faster - perhaps using code
form this patch.  (An aio_fsync_ranges would be even better).

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-15 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12 22:06 [RFC PATCH] Filesystem Journal Notifications Abhijit Paithankar
2008-09-13  9:19 ` Dave Chinner
2008-09-15  2:31 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-15  5:39   ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-15 19:36     ` Abhijit Paithankar
2008-09-15 23:37       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-16 23:05         ` Abhijit Paithankar
2008-09-19 20:34           ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-20 15:51             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-20  5:15       ` Jan Kara
2008-09-23 22:26         ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-15 13:23 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2008-09-17  0:06   ` Abhijit Paithankar
2008-09-17 11:35     ` Jamie Lokier

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