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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] XFS: Sort delayed write buffers before dispatch
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:53:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100104235309.GO13802@discord.disaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104154331.GA7924@infradead.org>

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:43:31AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 02:03:36PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Ideally this should use a list sort rather than requiring an
> > external buffer to sort the buffers in, but for simplicity
> > just do it via sort function. Followup patches are needed to
> > take the list sort functions from the DRM and UBIFS code and
> > make it a common function and to utilise it. That will allow
> > sorting the entire delwri queue to be written in one go.
> 
> 
> Maybe getting the common list sort in ASAP might be a good idea.  That
> way we could have it ready by the time this patchset is merged.  If not
> adding a new list sort to XFS temporarily might be a better idea than
> artifically flattening the list.

I'm about to post that and an updated patch series to use it. ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-04 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-02  3:03 [RFC, PATCH 0/3] Kill async inode writeback Dave Chinner
2010-01-02  3:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] XFS: Use delayed write for inodes rather than async Dave Chinner
2010-01-02  3:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] XFS: Don't issue buffer IO direct from AIL push Dave Chinner
2010-01-02  3:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] XFS: Sort delayed write buffers before dispatch Dave Chinner
2010-01-02 13:08   ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-02 14:14     ` Dave Chinner
2010-01-04 15:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-04 23:53     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-05  0:04 [PATCH 0/3] Kill async inode writeback V2 Dave Chinner
2010-01-05  0:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: Sort delayed write buffers before dispatch Dave Chinner
2010-01-08 11:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-08 11:17     ` Dave Chinner

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