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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] xfs: add back fdatasync support
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:23:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120221052301.GO3592@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120221003907.518904261@bombadil.infradead.org>

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:38:32PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add an in-memory only flag to say we logged timestamps only, and use it to
> check if fdatasync can optimize away the log force.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Looks good. Couple of minor things below.

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

> +/*
> + * The timestamps in the core are dirty, but not nessecarily anything
                                                    necessarily
> + * else.
> + *
> + * This is an incore only value store in ilf_fields & co, which must
> + * never make it to disk, unlike the other fields above.

That comment is a bit incoherent. Perhaps:

 * this is an incore-only flag stored in ili_fields which, unlike
 * the above flags, must never make it to disk in the ilf_fields.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-21  0:38 [PATCH 0/8] log all inode updates V2 Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  0:38 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfs: use per-filesystem I/O completion workqueues Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  4:58   ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-28 16:13   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-02-21  0:38 ` [PATCH 2/8] xfs: do not require an ioend for new EOF calculation Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-28 16:14   ` Mark Tinguely
2012-02-21  0:38 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs: make xfs_inode_item_size idempotent Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  5:14   ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-28 11:08     ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  0:38 ` [PATCH 7/8] xfs: split in-core and on-disk inode log item fields Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  5:18   ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-21  0:38 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs: add back fdatasync support Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-21  5:23   ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-03-08 20:04   ` Ben Myers

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