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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Geoffrey Wehrman <gwehrman@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Issues with delalloc->real extent allocation
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:40:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110118204008.GA28791@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110118143000.GB8803@sgi.com>

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:30:00AM -0600, Geoffrey Wehrman wrote:
> Glad you were able to understand what I meant.  Something I didn't think
> of earlier though:  What happens when I try to use an 8 GB on a system
> with only 4 GB of memory?  I'm not really worried about this pathological
> case, but I do wonder what the effects will be of allocating what could
> be significant quantities of memory in .aio_write.

I think for large regions we'd be much better off to only zero the
blocks on disk, not in-memory - for example like the code in
xfs_zero_remaining_bytes does.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-18 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14  0:29 Issues with delalloc->real extent allocation Dave Chinner
2011-01-14 16:40 ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-14 22:59   ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-15  4:16     ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-17  5:18       ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-17 14:37         ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-18  0:24           ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-18 14:30             ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-18 20:40               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-01-18 22:03                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-14 21:43 ` bpm
2011-01-14 23:32   ` bpm
2011-01-14 23:50   ` bpm
2011-01-14 23:55   ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-17 20:12     ` bpm
2011-01-18  1:44       ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-18 20:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-18 23:18       ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-19 12:03         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-19 13:31           ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-19 13:55             ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-20  1:33               ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 11:16                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-01-21  1:59                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-20 14:45                 ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-21  2:51                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-21 14:41                     ` Geoffrey Wehrman
2011-01-23 23:26                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-17  0:28   ` Lachlan McIlroy
2011-01-17  4:37     ` Dave Chinner

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