From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] xfs: remove the i_new_size field in struct xfs_inode
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:13:11 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111218221311.GG23662@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111218200132.299481659@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 03:00:12PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we use the VFS i_size field throughout XFS there is no need for the
> i_new_size field any more given that the VFS i_size field gets updated
> in ->write_end before unlocking the page, and thus is a) always uptodate when
> writeback could see a page. Removing i_new_size also has the advantage that
> we will never have to trim back di_size during a failed buffered write,
> given that it never gets updated past i_size.
>
> Note that currently the generic direct I/O code only updates i_size after
> calling our end_io handler, which requires a small workaround to make
> sure di_size actually makes it to disk. I hope to fix this properly in
> the generic code.
>
> A downside is that we lose the support for parallel non-overlapping O_DIRECT
> appending writes that recently was added. I don't think keeping the complex
> and fragile i_new_size infrastructure for this is a good tradeoff - if we
> really care about parallel appending writers we should investigate turning
> the iolock into a range lock, which would also allow for parallel
> non-overlapping buffered writers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-18 20:00 [PATCH 00/11] inode shrink and misc updates V2 Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 01/11] xfs: remove xfs_itruncate_data Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-03 21:53 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-04 9:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 02/11] xfs: cleanup xfs_iomap_eof_align_last_fsb Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-04 20:32 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 03/11] xfs: remove the unused dm_attrs structure Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-04 21:13 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 04/11] xfs: remove the if_ext_max field in struct xfs_ifork Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-06 16:58 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-16 22:45 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-17 15:16 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-17 17:04 ` Mark Tinguely
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 05/11] xfs: make i_flags an unsigned long Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 06/11] xfs: replace i_flock with a sleeping bitlock Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-13 21:49 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 07/11] xfs: replace i_pin_wait with a bit waitqueue Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-13 22:42 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 08/11] xfs: remove the i_size field in struct xfs_inode Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-16 18:32 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-16 19:45 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: remove the i_new_size " Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-18 22:13 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-01-16 22:41 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-17 20:14 ` Ben Myers
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 10/11] xfs: always return with the iolock held from xfs_file_aio_write_checks Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-17 20:18 ` Ben Myers
2012-01-20 12:51 ` Jeff Liu
2011-12-18 20:00 ` [PATCH 11/11] xfs: cleanup xfs_file_aio_write Christoph Hellwig
2012-01-17 20:42 ` Ben Myers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-08 15:57 [PATCH 00/11] inode shrink and misc updates Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-08 15:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] xfs: remove the i_new_size field in struct xfs_inode Christoph Hellwig
2011-12-13 23:16 ` Dave Chinner
2011-12-14 13:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
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