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* [PATCH 0/6] XFS: Track reclaimable inodes in inode cache
@ 2008-10-07 21:54 Dave Chinner
  2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] XFS: move inode reclaim functions to xfs_sync.c Dave Chinner
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Dave Chinner @ 2008-10-07 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

Move the tracking of reclaimable inodes into the inode radix trees.
This currently does not replace the reclaim flags in the inode,
rather it allows traversal of all reclaimable inodes by walking the
per-AG inode radix trees without needing a separate list. This
enables us to remove a struct list_head from the struct xfs_inode
and the xfs_mount, as well as a filesystem global lock which also
has the benefit of removing a point of serialisation during inode
reclaim.

Like the matching sync code, this also allows reclaim of inodes
in ascending inode numbers which substantially improves I/O
patterns during reclaim driven inode flushing.

Version 2:
o clean up series based on review comments
o added bug fix to prevent looping when we overflow the AG
  inode number index (fixes sync code as well).

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2008-10-07 21:54 [PATCH 0/6] XFS: Track reclaimable inodes in inode cache Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] XFS: move inode reclaim functions to xfs_sync.c Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] XFS: rename inode reclaim functions Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] XFS: mark inodes for reclaim via a tag in the inode radix tree Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] XFS: use the inode radix tree for reclaiming inodes Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] XFS: kill deleted inodes list Dave Chinner
2008-10-07 21:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] XFS: Prevent looping in xfs_sync_inodes_ag Dave Chinner
2008-10-08 18:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-10-09  0:02     ` Dave Chinner

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