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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxram@linux.vnet.ibm.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, tytso@mit.edu, marco.stornelli@gmail.com,
	stroetmann@ontolinux.com, diegocg@gmail.com, chris@csamuel.org,
	Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 03/10] vfs: add one new mount option '-o hottrack'
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:05:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927070508.GS15236@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH94LimEZcAFKFMVNUzBcTeDxvkgeD3jCO3AgmkEKXVE4ym+A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:25:34PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 08:56:28PM +0800, zwu.kernel@gmail.com wrote:
> >> From: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >>
> >>   Introduce one new mount option '-o hottrack',
> >> and add its parsing support.
> >>   Its usage looks like:
> >>    mount -o hottrack
> >>    mount -o nouser,hottrack
> >>    mount -o nouser,hottrack,loop
> >>    mount -o hottrack,nouser
> >
> > I think that this option parsing should be done by the filesystem,
> > even though the tracking functionality is in the VFS. That way ony
> > the filesystems that can use the tracking information will turn it
> > on, rather than being able to turn it on for everything regardless
> > of whether it is useful or not.
> >
> > Along those lines, just using a normal superblock flag to indicate
> > it is active (e.g. MS_HOT_INODE_TRACKING in sb->s_flags) means you
> > don't need to allocate the sb->s_hot_info structure just to be able
> If we don't allocate one sb->s_hot_info, where will those hash list
> head and btree roots locate?

I wrote that thinking (mistakenly) that s-hot)info was dynamically
allocated rather than being embedded in the struct super_block.

Indeed, if the mount option is held in s_flags, then it could be
dynamically allocated, but I don't think that's really necessary...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-23 12:56 [RFC v2 00/10] vfs: hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 01/10] vfs: introduce private rb structures zwu.kernel
2012-09-25  7:37   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-25  7:57     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25  8:00     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-25 10:20   ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26  3:20     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 02/10] vfs: add support for updating access frequency zwu.kernel
2012-09-25  9:17   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26  2:53     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  2:19       ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  2:30         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 03/10] vfs: add one new mount option '-o hottrack' zwu.kernel
2012-09-25  9:28   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-26  2:56     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  2:20       ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  2:30         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  5:25     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  7:05       ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-09-27  7:21         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 04/10] vfs: add init and exit support zwu.kernel
2012-09-27  2:27   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 05/10] vfs: introduce one hash table zwu.kernel
2012-09-25  9:54   ` Ram Pai
2012-09-26  4:08     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  3:43   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  6:23     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  6:57       ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  7:10         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 06/10] vfs: enable hot data tracking zwu.kernel
2012-09-27  3:54   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  6:28     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  6:59       ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  7:12         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 07/10] vfs: fork one kthread to update data temperature zwu.kernel
2012-09-27  4:03   ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  6:54     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-27  7:01       ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-27  7:19         ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 08/10] vfs: add 3 new ioctl interfaces zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 09/10] vfs: add debugfs support zwu.kernel
2012-09-23 12:56 ` [RFC v2 10/10] vfs: add documentation zwu.kernel

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