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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfs: exact busy extent tracking
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:10:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429011035.GW12436@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110424190657.064969622@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 03:06:16PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it
> always is kept uptodate.  This is done by replacing the busy list searches
> with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree
> in case of a reuse.  This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents
> unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree
> blocks.

I'd add one comment to this - that this returns to the old way of
clearing busy extents by issuing a sync log force with the AGF
locked. This can cause additional allocation latency, but should be
rare given the occurrence of of metadata->data reallocation.

> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>

Otherwise,

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

-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-29  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-24 19:06 [PATCH 0/4] improved busy extent handling V5 Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-24 19:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: optimize AGFL refills Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-29  0:41   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-24 19:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: do not immediately reuse busy extent ranges Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-29  0:58   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-24 19:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: exact busy extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-29  1:10   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-04-24 19:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: reduce the number of pagb_lock roundtrips in xfs_alloc_clear_busy Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-27 16:56   ` Alex Elder
2011-04-27 19:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-29  1:13     ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-18  6:59 [PATCH 0/4] improved busy extent handling V4 Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-18  6:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: exact busy extent tracking Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 20:08   ` Alex Elder
2011-04-22  4:13     ` Christoph Hellwig

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