* Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc [not found] ` <84144f020812301208i34e5cc73hac25675f56e6aac0@mail.gmail.com> @ 2008-12-31 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter 2009-01-02 0:00 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Christoph Lameter @ 2008-12-31 23:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Andrew Morton, jens.axboe, kmannth, linux-kernel, sekharan, Miklos Szeredi, Dave Chinner, linux-fsdevel On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > I'll need to revert to yesterday's linux-next I think. Pekka, has > > that stuff been dropped? > > Yup, there hasn't been any activity after the last merge window so I'm > not expecting to be able to merge it for 2.6.29. As per linux-next > rules, I dropped the 2.6.30 material until the merge window closes. > The code is in topic/slub-defrag of slab.git, though. Well the problem currently is that there is no driver for these features. There has been a request for this functionality for a long time but both the primary drivers for this (Dave Chinner and I) are no longer with the company for which we started the project. I'd be glad to continue this if there would be an interest by the filesystem developers. The key problem that would have to be addressed to move this forward is to clean up the callbacks for dentries and inodes. Again the problem solved by these patches are mainly filesystem intensive loads that can cause significant fragmentation for inodes and denties which may leave lots of memory unrecoverable for other purposes. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc 2008-12-31 23:04 ` Defrag support for inodes / dentries etc Christoph Lameter @ 2009-01-02 0:00 ` Dave Chinner 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Dave Chinner @ 2009-01-02 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg, Andrew Morton, jens.axboe, kmannth, linux-kernel, sekharan, Miklos Szeredi, linux-fsdevel On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 05:04:04PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > > > I'll need to revert to yesterday's linux-next I think. Pekka, has > > > that stuff been dropped? > > > > Yup, there hasn't been any activity after the last merge window so I'm > > not expecting to be able to merge it for 2.6.29. As per linux-next > > rules, I dropped the 2.6.30 material until the merge window closes. > > The code is in topic/slub-defrag of slab.git, though. > > Well the problem currently is that there is no driver for these features. > There has been a request for this functionality for a long time but both > the primary drivers for this (Dave Chinner and I) are no longer with the > company for which we started the project. I'd be glad to continue this > if there would be an interest by the filesystem developers. Certainly. The problem hasn't gone away and anyone trying to run a busy fileserver while know of the problem.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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