Re: [PATCH 0/5] xfs: fix AIL bulk insert issues and cleanups

Dave Chinner
2011-07-04T11:26:07Z

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:13:12AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:27:35PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > The first two patches fix the recently reported rm -rf performance
> > and interactivity problems when using delay??d logging. These should
> > probably be considered for 3.0-rc5.
>
> I think it's a bit late for patch 2. Patch 1 is triviall, and helps
> with a regression introduced in 2.6.39 by switching to the delaylog
> mode, but patch 2 is a bit too large for this in the merge window
> unless absolutely nessecary.

Yeah, that's fair enough. The first patch should prevent the
majority of the problematic occurrences of out-of-order AIL
insertion, so we can live without the second one for the moment.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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