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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] xfs: flag all buffers as metadata
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:06:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110726150644.GA18000@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110726150633.GA17400@infradead.org>

Now that REQ_META bios aren't treated specially in the CFQ I/O schedule
anymore, we can tag all buffers as metadata to make blktrace traces more
meaningful.  Note that we use buffers also to zero out partial blocks
in the preallocation / hole punching code, and while they operate on
data blocks the zeros written certainly aren't data.  I think this case
is borderline metadata enough to not bother special casing it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c	2011-07-25 23:50:03.288230279 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c	2011-07-25 23:50:22.208230167 +0200
@@ -1224,6 +1224,9 @@ _xfs_buf_ioapply(
 		rw = READ;
 	}
 
+	/* we only use the buffer cache for meta-data */
+	rw |= REQ_META;
+
 next_chunk:
 	atomic_inc(&bp->b_io_remaining);
 	nr_pages = BIO_MAX_SECTORS >> (PAGE_SHIFT - BBSHIFT);

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       reply	other threads:[~2011-07-26 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110726150633.GA17400@infradead.org>
2011-07-26 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-26 22:38   ` [PATCH 1/3] xfs: flag all buffers as metadata Alex Elder
2011-07-26 22:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 22:41       ` Alex Elder
2011-07-26 15:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfs: prevent against ioend livelocks in xfs_file_fsync Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 22:39   ` Alex Elder
2011-07-26 15:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfs: optimize the negative xattr caching Christoph Hellwig
2011-07-26 22:39   ` Alex Elder

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