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From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
To: Chris Mason <clmason@fusionio.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>,
	"bo.li.liu@oracle.com" <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] skiplists for range indexes
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 17:33:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130505073357.GC2010@devil.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130504111151.5844.74450@localhost.localdomain>

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 07:11:51AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Quoting Dave Chinner (2013-05-03 23:25:36)
> > 
> > I've got two cases I care about. The first is the buffer cache
> > indexes which have a 1000:1 read:modify ratio and I'd really like the
> > lookups to be lockless. The other case is the extent tree, where we
> > do lots of inserts when the extent tree is first read, and after
> > than it's typically 2 lookups for every insert/remove. Having one
> > tree that works for both would be handy...
> 
> Ok, we're in a similar boat then.  I'll finish off some of the API and
> test the pure RCU side harder.
> 
> For the extent tree, are you doing a lot of merging once things are in
> the tree?  I'm not planning on doing pure-rcu for items that get merged
> quiet yet.

Yes, we merge extents where ever possible. Almost all contiguous
allocations and unwritten extent conversions merge extents in some
manner...

> Also, I'm using unsigned longs right now.  My guess is we'll both want
> u64s, which means I have to do an i_size_read/write trick in a few
> spots.

Yup, definitely needs to be u64 for XFS...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
dchinner@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-05  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-03  2:02 [PATCH RFC 0/2] skiplists for range indexes Chris Mason
2013-05-03  2:06 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] core skiplist code Chris Mason
2013-05-03  2:10 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] skiplists for the IOMMU Chris Mason
2013-05-03  9:19 ` [PATCH RFC 0/2] skiplists for range indexes Jan Kara
2013-05-03 10:45   ` Chris Mason
2013-05-04  3:25     ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-04 11:11       ` Chris Mason
2013-05-05  7:33         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-05-05 14:38           ` Chris Mason
2013-05-05 22:44             ` Dave Chinner
2013-05-06 11:28               ` [BULK] " Chris Mason
2013-05-07  2:12                 ` Dave Chinner

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