From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/10] xfs: add XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:22:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022222228.GB4291@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <508548BF.9090103@redhat.com>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> On 10/22/2012 03:34 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:16:57AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> >> On 10/17/2012 06:40 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
> >>>>> FWIW, given the background cleanup code can be trivially verified to
> >>>>> work (open, apend, close, repeat, wait 5 minutes) and is the
> >>>>> functionality that is needed in mainline, having something to test
> >>>>> the ioctls should not stop the patchset from being merged.
> >>>
> >>> Can we be assured that we'll get an xfstest for it eventually?
> >>
> >> Absolutely. Getting a command into xfs_io to support such a test is now
> >> the top of my todo list with regard to XFS. :)
> >
> > Here's a patch to the new xfs_spaceman program I'm writing that adds
> > control for these ioctls.
> >
>
> Very cool, thanks. Catchy name for the tool as well, btw ;).
>
> For some reason my mailer is stripping out the patch,
Probably because I simply added it inline below my sig. The mailer
is probably dropping everything below the /^-- $/ line that marks
the sig...
>
> but my only
> comment is with regard to minlen. Shouldn't that variable be handled as
> an unsigned?
Probably, but a ssize_t would be better, and ....
> Now that I think of it, that makes me wonder if I should
> make that a 64-bit unsigned in xfs_eofblocks..?
... yes, a __u64 would be better.
I've got a couple more comments now I've actually used and tested
it, so I'll do that today....
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-05 14:17 [PATCH v5 00/10] speculative preallocation inode tracking Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] xfs: add EOFBLOCKS inode tagging/untagging Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] xfs: support a tag-based inode_ag_iterator Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] xfs: create helper to check whether to free eofblocks on inode Brian Foster
2012-10-23 0:58 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] xfs: make xfs_free_eofblocks() non-static, return EAGAIN on trylock failure Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] xfs: create function to scan and clear EOFBLOCKS inodes Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:01 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] xfs: add XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl Brian Foster
2012-10-11 14:13 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-11 22:35 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-15 22:46 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-15 23:49 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-16 1:39 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-17 22:40 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-18 12:16 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-18 15:46 ` Ben Myers
2012-10-18 16:23 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-22 7:34 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-22 13:23 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-22 22:22 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2012-10-23 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 16:16 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-24 19:27 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] xfs: make xfs_quota_type() non-static Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:31 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] xfs: add quota id filtering to eofblocks scan Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:42 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 16:18 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-24 19:41 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-24 23:02 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-25 0:02 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-25 0:29 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] xfs: add minimum file size " Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-05 14:17 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] xfs: add background scanning to clear eofblocks inodes Brian Foster
2012-10-23 1:55 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-19 21:02 ` [PATCH v5 00/10] speculative preallocation inode tracking Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 14:00 ` Brian Foster
2012-10-21 17:53 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 20:31 ` Mark Tinguely
2012-10-21 22:28 ` Dave Chinner
2012-10-23 19:10 ` Ben Myers
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