Re: Modern uses of CONFIG_XFS_RT

Luis Chamberlain
2020-02-19T14:38:29Z

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:32:27PM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:57:15PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > I hear some folks still use CONFIG_XFS_RT, I was curious what was the
> > actual modern typical use case for it. I thought this was somewhat
> > realted to DAX use but upon a quick code inspection I see direct
> > realtionship.
>
> Hm, not sure if there is any other use other than it's original purpose of
> reducing latency jitters. Also XFS_RT dates way back from the day DAX was even a
> thing. But anyway, I don't have much experience using XFS_RT by myself, and I
> probably raised more questions than answers to yours :P

What about another question, this would certainly drive the users out of
the corners: can we remove it upstream?

Luis