From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CE67CA2 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:13:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by relay1.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914C58F8033 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 07:13:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id FtHTKnvAXTAT6yJv (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 11 Feb 2016 07:13:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 07:13:01 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8 v4] xfs: get rid of xfs_cluster_write Message-ID: <20160211151301.GA13515@infradead.org> References: <1455094043-9694-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20160210182538.GA7481@infradead.org> <20160210212550.GM14668@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160210212550.GM14668@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:25:51AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > I really like the idea, especially how using a bioset encapsulates > the ioend and binds the life cycle to the bio. It also removes a > heap of code, too. > > We really do need some form of chaining here, though. If we don't, > then we'll be doing unwritten extent of set file size transactions > for ever 1MB bio completion instead of once for however large > writepages can build an ioend. > > I think this is definitely worth pursuing - are you going to get any > time to work on this in the next couple of months, Christoph (i.e. > to target the 4.7 merge window)? Yes, I've just started working on this and would love to get it off my table ASAP. I was doing this ontop of your initial writeback changes, so let me know if I should go back to that version, or you think the last two patches will be ready in time as well? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs