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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: reduce the number of log forces from tail pushing
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:31:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110814163144.GD29428@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312786271-10871-3-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>

The flush_log variable in xfs_ail_worker is non-zero after your
patch, and can be removed.

The second argument for xfs_log_force to force a sync log force is
XFS_LOG_SYNC, not SYNC_WAIT.

I also don't really like the goto again style - we can just move the log
push at the beggining of the function, the only thing it requires is
adding an additional list_empty check, e.g.:

	spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
 	/*
	 * If last time we ran we encountered pinned items, force the log
	 * first, wait for it and then push again.
	 */
	if (ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn == 0 && ailp->xa_log_flush &&
	    !list_empty(&ailp->xa_ail)) {
		ailp->xa_log_flush = 0;
		spin_unlock(&ailp->xa_lock);
		XFS_STATS_INC(xs_push_ail_flush);
		xfs_log_force(mp, SYNC_WAIT);
		spin_lock(&ailp->xa_lock);
	}

	target = ailp->xa_target;
        lip = xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first(ailp, &cur, ailp->xa_last_pushed_lsn);

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-14 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-08  6:51 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: small metadata performance optimisations Dave Chinner
2011-08-08  6:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: Don't allocate new buffers on every call to _xfs_buf_find Dave Chinner
2011-08-09  7:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-10  5:48     ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-08  6:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: reduce the number of log forces from tail pushing Dave Chinner
2011-08-14 16:31   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-30  4:45 [PATCH 0/2] xfs: patches for 3.2 Dave Chinner
2011-09-30  4:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: reduce the number of log forces from tail pushing Dave Chinner

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