From: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] xfs: don't fail xfs_extent_busy allocation
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 11:43:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206164318.GF57865@bfoster.bfoster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170204095040.GA18472@lst.de>
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 10:20:52AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 07:43:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > We don't just need the structure to track busy extents which can be
> > > avoided with a synchronous transaction, but also to keep track of
> > > pending discard.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> > > ---
> >
> > Looks fine, though I wonder if we should create a kmem_cache similar to
> > all of the other log item structures and whatnot...
>
> Using the isolation of a slab cache for such a short lived structure
> seems counter productive.
I was thinking more about the repeated allocation/free of said
structures than lifetime, particularly since we've converted an
opportunistic allocation to a required/sleeping one.
Just a thought though.. looking again, should we have KM_NOFS here as
well?
Brian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-06 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-29 18:43 improve busy extent handling and add async discard support Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: don't fail xfs_extent_busy allocation Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:20 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-06 16:43 ` Brian Foster [this message]
2017-02-07 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: improve handling of busy extents in the low-level allocator Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:22 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04 9:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 16:22 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-06 16:47 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07 9:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-07 13:13 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: improve busy extent sorting Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 15:22 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04 9:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-29 18:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: don't block the log commit handler for discards Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-03 16:22 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-04 9:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-06 16:49 ` Brian Foster
2017-02-07 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
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2017-02-05 17:11 improve busy extent handling and add async discard support V2 Christoph Hellwig
2017-02-05 17:11 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: don't fail xfs_extent_busy allocation Christoph Hellwig
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