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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xfs: simplify xfs_vm_releasepage
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:37:37 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100615013737.GN6590@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100611161511.791495868@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:13:14PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently the xfs releasepage implementation has code to deal with converting
> delayed allocated and unwritten space.  But we never get called for those as
> we always convert delayed and unwritten space when cleaning a page, or drop
> the state from the buffers in block_invalidatepage.  We still keep a WARN_ON
> on those cases for now, but remove all the case dealing with it, which allows
> to fold xfs_page_state_convert into xfs_vm_writepage and remove the !startio
> case from the whole writeback path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks good. Couple of things:

> +
> +	/*
> +	 * VM calculation for nr_to_write seems off.  Bump it way
> +	 * up, this gets simple streaming writes zippy again.
> +	 * To be reviewed again after Jens' writeback changes.
> +	 */
> +	wbc->nr_to_write *= 4;
> +

That's gone in mainline as of as of .35-rc3. We need to get the
xfs-dev tree updated.

Otherwise, conѕider it:

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-15  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 16:13 [PATCH 0/3] simplify the writeback code Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 16:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: fix corruption case for block size < page size Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15  1:21   ` Dave Chinner
2010-06-11 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: simplify xfs_vm_releasepage Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15  1:37   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-06-15  6:22     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-11 16:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: simplify xfs_vm_writepage Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15  1:50   ` Dave Chinner

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