From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id pA823ZSx085309 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:03:35 -0600 Message-ID: <1320717814.3186.99.camel@doink> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] xfsdump: enable multiple streams From: Alex Elder Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:03:34 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1320699511-12281-9-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> References: <1320699511-12281-1-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> <1320699511-12281-9-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: aelder@sgi.com List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Bill Kendall Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 14:58 -0600, Bill Kendall wrote: > IRIX contained an environment referred to as "miniroot" where > sproc threads were either not available, or at least not used > in xfsdump. Throughout xfsdump there's a "miniroot" variable > which indicates whether or not thread support is enabled. On > Linux this variable has always been false in order to disable > support for multiple streams. > > Now that the threading infracstructure has been converted over > to pthreads, this patch removes the "miniroot" variable and > enables the option of using multiple streams. > > Note that another feature in xfsdump, using a ring buffer for > I/O to tapes, also depends on thread support. I'm leaving that > disabled for now until more testing has been done. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Really, really nice work Bill. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs