From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modifications
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:54:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100914145447.GE3400@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284461777-1496-8-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:56:06PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hence we can stop marking VFS inodes dirty during transaction commit or when
> changing timestamps during transactions. This will keep the inodes in the
> superblock dirty list to those containing data or unlogged metadata changes.
But we also use xfs_ichgtime for non-transacion size updates, e.g.
for truncate of zero length files. With this patch we lose track of
the timestamp updates for this case.
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Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-14 10:55 [PATCH 0/18] xfs: metadata and buffer cache scalability improvements Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 01/18] xfs: single thread inode cache shrinking Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 18:48 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 22:48 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 02/18] xfs: reduce the number of CIL lock round trips during commit Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 17:21 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 03/18] xfs: remove debug assert for per-ag reference counting Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 17:22 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 04/18] xfs: lockless per-ag lookups Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 12:35 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 17:28 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 05/18] xfs: convert inode cache lookups to use RCU locking Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 16:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 23:17 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 21:23 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 23:42 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 06/18] xfs: convert pag_ici_lock to a spin lock Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 21:26 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 07/18] xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modifications Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-15 0:14 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-15 0:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:12 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-15 0:28 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-08 10:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 08/18] xfs: rename xfs_buf_get_nodaddr to be more appropriate Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:14 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 09/18] xfs: introduced uncached buffer read primitve Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:16 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 10/18] xfs: store xfs_mount in the buftarg instead of in the xfs_buf Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:21 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 11/18] xfs: kill XBF_FS_MANAGED buffers Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:26 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 12/18] xfs: use unhashed buffers for size checks Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 15:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-14 22:29 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 13/18] xfs: remove buftarg hash for external devices Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 22:29 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 14/18] xfs: convert buffer cache hash to rbtree Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 16:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-15 17:46 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 15/18] xfs; pack xfs_buf structure more tightly Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 16:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-15 18:01 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 16/18] xfs: convert xfsbud shrinker to a per-buftarg shrinker Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 16:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-15 20:19 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-16 0:28 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 17/18] xfs: add a lru to the XFS buffer cache Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 23:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-15 0:05 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-15 21:28 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-14 10:56 ` [PATCH 18/18] xfs: stop using the page cache to back the " Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 23:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-15 0:06 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 14:25 ` [PATCH 0/18] xfs: metadata and buffer cache scalability improvements Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 13:21 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-21 2:02 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-21 16:23 ` Alex Elder
2010-09-21 22:34 ` Dave Chinner
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