From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] xfs: modify buffer item reference counting V2
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 17:00:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100506210026.GA30264@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273110351-2333-5-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:45:44AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> The buffer log item reference counts used to take reference?? for every
> transaction, similar to the pin counting. This is symmetric (like the
> pin/unpin) with respect to transaction completion, but with dleayed logging
> becomes assymetric as the pinning becomes assymetric w.r.t. transaction
> completion.
>
> To make both cases the same, allow the buffer pinning to take a reference to
> the buffer log item and always drop the reference the transaction has on it
> when being unlocked. This is balanced correctly because the unpin operation
> always drops a reference to the log item. Hence reference counting becomes
> symmetric w.r.t. item pinning as well as w.r.t active transactions and as a
> result the reference counting model remain consistent between normal and
> delayed logging.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Looks good and makes the buffer refconting model a lot more sensible.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-06 1:45 [PATCH 0/11] xfs: delayed logging Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: Don't reuse the same transaciton ID for duplicated transactions Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: Improve scalability of busy extent tracking Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: allow log ticket allocation to take allocation flags Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: modify buffer item reference counting V2 Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 21:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: Clean up XFS_BLI_* flag namespace Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: clean up log ticket overrun debug output Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 20:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: Delayed logging design documentation Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: Introduce delayed logging core code Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: forced unmounts need to push the CIL Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: enable background pushing of " Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: Ensure inode allocation buffers are fully replayed Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 13:26 ` [PATCH 0/11] xfs: delayed logging Dave Chinner
2010-05-06 19:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-06 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
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