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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Gandalf Corvotempesta <gandalf.corvotempesta@gmail.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: agcount for 2TB, 4TB and 8TB drives
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:31:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171018073104.GA6274@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171015220018.GG3666@dastard>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:00:19AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> fallocate will block *all* IO and mmap faults on that file, not just
> the ones that require allocation. fallocate creates a complete IO
> submission pipeline stall, punting all new IO submissions to the
> background worker where they will block until fallocate completes.

Not sure if it helps Avis case, but I think we could relax the
fallocate exclusive i_rwsem requirement a bit, similar to direct I/O
writes.  Basically as long as your fallocate is block aligned we
should be fine with a shared iolock for the "normal" allocating
fallocate (discounting things like hole punches and extent shifts
of course).

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-18  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06  8:46 agcount for 2TB, 4TB and 8TB drives Gandalf Corvotempesta
2017-10-06 15:38 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-10-06 16:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2017-10-06 22:20     ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-06 22:21       ` Eric Sandeen
2017-10-09  8:05         ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-09 11:23           ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-09 15:46             ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-09 22:03               ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-10  9:07                 ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-10 22:55                   ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-13  8:13                     ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-14 22:42                       ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-15  9:36                         ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-15 22:00                           ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-16 10:00                             ` Avi Kivity
2017-10-16 22:31                               ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-18  7:31                             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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