From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o8EErwYQ131155 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:53:58 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6353D708A7 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id vvHnDjuFA7yUmmdM for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:54:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:54:47 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] xfs: don't use vfs writeback for pure metadata modifications Message-ID: <20100914145447.GE3400@infradead.org> References: <1284461777-1496-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1284461777-1496-8-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1284461777-1496-8-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs