Re: [PATCH 2/4] vfs: add support for a lazytime mount option

Boaz Harrosh
2014-11-25T15:32:20Z

On 11/25/2014 06:33 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
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> I was concerned about putting them on the dirty inode list because it
> would be extra inodes for the writeback threads would have to skip
> over and ignore (since they would not be dirty in the inde or data
> pages sense).
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> Another solution would be to use a separate linked list for dirtytime
> inodes, but that means adding some extra fields to the inode
> structure, which some might view as bloat.

You could use the same list-head for both lists.

If the inode is on the dirty-inode-list then no need to add it
to the list-for-dirtytime, it will be written soon anyway.
else you add it to the list-for-dirtytime.

If you (real)dirty an inode then you first remove it from the
list-for-dirtytime first, and then add it to the dirty-inode-list.

So at each given time it is only on one list

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Cheers
Boaz