From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] avoid busy extents during user data allocations
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:19:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110304131944.GA31536@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110304125953.650347660@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 07:59:53AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This patchset adds support to trim down extents
Sorry, sent this out before finishing up the introduction.
This patchset adds support for trimming down allocations of user data
to avoid busy extents. I'm actually not quite sure it's overly useful
in this form, as we're much better off allowing free reallocation
between data extents, and only avoid busy extents coming from freed
metadata. Neverless I'd like to get a review of the new search
algorithm in patch 3, especially for the nice comments explaining it
all, based on a mail from Dave.
Patches 1 and 2 on the other hand are simple cleanups which I think
should go into the tree ASAP.
The other patches from the previous submitting are back to the drawing
board - implementing Dave's suggestion of skipping busy extents for
metadata to user data reallocation promises to give a lot of speedups,
but making it work with the requirement to track freed extents for
discard purposes isn't quite trivial as we might have to remove extents
from the busy list during reallocations, which requires additional
infrastructure to lock the list of busy extents in the transaction / cil
context which isn't there yet, and additional exclusion of allocations
from ongoing discards.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 12:59 [PATCH 0/3] avoid busy extents during user data allocations Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-04 12:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: clean up the xfs_alloc_compute_aligned calling convention Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-04 12:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: do not immediately reuse busy extent ranges Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-07 23:01 ` Alex Elder
2011-03-09 11:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-04 13:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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