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* [PATCH 0/6] XFS: replace the mount inode list with radix tree traversals V4
@ 2008-09-13 13:53 Dave Chinner
  2008-09-13 13:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] XFS: move sync code to its own file Dave Chinner
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  0 siblings, 7 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2008-09-13 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

The list of all inodes on a mount is superfluous. We can traverse
all inodes now by walking the per-AG inode radix trees without
needing a separate list. This enables us to remove a bunch of
complex list traversal code and remove another two pointers from
the xfs_inode.

Also, by replacing the sync traversal with an ascending inode
number traversal, we will issue better inode I/O patterns for
writeback triggered by xfssyncd or unmount.

Before we make this change, move all the relevant sync code
into it's own file in the linux-2.6/ directory. This aggregates
VFS specific sync interfacing in the one file and will allow
all the subsequent change history to be associated with this
file so it is easy to find in future.

Version 4:
o revert xfs_syncsub -> xfs_sync change in xfs_quiesce_fs and
  rediff patch series

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* [PATCH 0/6] XFS: replace the mount inode list with radix tree traversals
@ 2008-10-07 21:41 Dave Chinner
  2008-10-07 21:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] XFS: Use the inode tree for finding dirty inodes V3 Dave Chinner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2008-10-07 21:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

The list of all inodes on a mount is superfluous. We can traverse
all inodes now by walking the per-AG inode radix trees without
needing a separate list. This enables us to remove a bunch of
complex list traversal code and remove another two pointers from
the xfs_inode.

Also, by replacing the sync traversal with an ascending inode
number traversal, we will issue better inode I/O patterns for
writeback triggered by xfssyncd or unmount.

Before we make this change, move all the relevant sync code
into it's own file in the linux-2.6/ directory. This aggregates
VFS specific sync interfacing in the one file and will allow
all the subsequent change history to be associated with this
file so it is easy to find in future.

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 9+ messages in thread

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2008-09-13 13:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] XFS: move xfssyncd code to xfs_sync.c Dave Chinner
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2008-09-13 13:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] XFS: Use the inode tree for finding dirty inodes V3 Dave Chinner
2008-09-13 13:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] XFS: Traverse inode trees when releasing dquots V3 Dave Chinner
2008-09-13 13:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] XFS: remove the mount inode list Dave Chinner
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