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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: shortcut xfs_file_release for read-only file descriptors
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:06:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190918170651.GY2229799@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190918165000.GB19316@lst.de>

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 06:50:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 08:53:23AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > Didn't Dave have a variant of this patch for dealing with a
> > fragmentation issue (IIRC)? Anyways, seems fine:
> 
> I don't really remember one.  But maybe Dave can chime in.

He did[1], but IIRC the discussion petered out because we didn't have a
good way to measure the long term fragmentation effects of doing this.
I sent in a second patch[2] that only trimmed posteof blocks the first
time a file is closed, which reduced fragmentation dramatically on
workloads where there are a lot of synchronous open-append-close writes
(e.g. logging daemons).

None of that stuff ever got merged, so maybe it's time to revisit these.

--D

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20190207050813.24271-2-david@fromorbit.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/155259894034.30230.7188877605950498518.stgit@magnolia/

      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-16 12:20 minor ->release fixups and cleanups Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] xfs: remove xfs_release Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:53   ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 16:49     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-18 18:12       ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 18:21         ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-09-18 22:25           ` Dave Chinner
2019-09-16 12:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] xfs: shortcut xfs_file_release for read-only file descriptors Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-16 12:53   ` Brian Foster
2019-09-18 16:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-18 17:06       ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]

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