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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] libxfs: keep unflushable buffers off the cache MRUs
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 06:54:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160208195437.GJ27429@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160208100636.GA27683@infradead.org>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 02:06:36AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > --- a/include/cache.h
> > +++ b/include/cache.h
> > @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ enum {
> >  #define CACHE_BASE_PRIORITY	0
> >  #define CACHE_PREFETCH_PRIORITY	8
> >  #define CACHE_MAX_PRIORITY	15
> > +#define CACHE_DIRTY_PRIORITY	(CACHE_MAX_PRIORITY + 1)
> 
> Sizing arrays based on, and iterating up to CACHE_DIRTY_PRIORITY seems
> rather odd.  Maybe add a new
> 
> #define CACHE_NR_PRIORITIES		CACHE_DIRTY_PRIORITY
> 
> and a comment explaining the magic to make it more obvious?

Ok.

> > +cache_move_to_dirty_mru(
> > +	struct cache		*cache,
> > +	struct cache_node	*node)
> > +{
> > +	struct cache_mru	*mru;
> > +
> > +	mru = &cache->c_mrus[CACHE_DIRTY_PRIORITY];
> > +
> > +	pthread_mutex_lock(&mru->cm_mutex);
> > +	node->cn_priority = CACHE_DIRTY_PRIORITY;
> > +	list_move(&node->cn_mru, &mru->cm_list);
> > +	mru->cm_count++;
> > +	pthread_mutex_unlock(&mru->cm_mutex);
> > +}
> 
> Maybe it would better to just do a list_add here and leave the
> list_del to the caller to avoid needing to nest two different
> cm_mutex instances.

I'll have a look at it.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-08 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-04 23:05 [PATCH 1/7 v2] repair: big broken filesystems cause pain Dave Chinner
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 1/7] repair: parallelise phase 7 Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  8:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-09  0:12     ` Dave Chinner
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/7] repair: parallelise uncertin inode processing in phase 3 Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  8:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 3/7] libxfs: directory node splitting does not have an extra block Dave Chinner
2016-02-05 14:20   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-08  9:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 4/7] libxfs: don't discard dirty buffers Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  9:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 5/7] libxfs: don't repeatedly shake unwritable buffers Dave Chinner
2016-02-08  9:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 6/7] libxfs: keep unflushable buffers off the cache MRUs Dave Chinner
2016-02-05 14:22   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-08 10:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-02-08 19:54     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-02-04 23:05 ` [PATCH 7/7] libxfs: reset dirty buffer priority on lookup Dave Chinner
2016-02-05 14:23   ` Brian Foster
2016-02-08 10:08   ` Christoph Hellwig

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