From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: avoid synchronous transactions when deleting attr blocks
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:30:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110830063035.GQ3162@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110827144511.GB16381@infradead.org>
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:45:11AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Currently xfs_attr_inactive causes a synchronous transactions if we are
> removing a file that has any extents allocated to the attribute fork, and
> thus makes XFS extremely slow at removing files with out of line extended
> attributes. The code looks a like a relict from the days before the busy
> extent list, but with the busy extent list we avoid reusing data and attr
> extents that have been freed but not commited yet, so this code is just
> as superflous as the synchronous transactions for data blocks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reported-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-27 14:45 [PATCH] xfs: avoid synchronous transactions when deleting attr blocks Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-30 6:30 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-09-12 18:43 ` Alex Elder
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