From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4] libxfs: use FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE in libxfs_device_zero
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:46:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225184652.GA24401@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c7c39f7-91a7-be85-5906-e55180a91a5f@sandeen.net>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:13:55AM -0800, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I had a request from someone who cared about mkfs speed over
> a slower network block device to look into using faster zeroing
> methods, particularly for the log, during mkfs.
>
> Using FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE is faster in this case than writing
> a bunch of zeros across a wire.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-13 21:12 [PATCH, RFC] libxfs: use FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE in libxfs_device_zero Eric Sandeen
2020-02-13 23:48 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-13 23:57 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-02-14 0:25 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-14 1:05 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2020-02-14 1:34 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-14 1:43 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-02-22 3:22 ` [PATCH V3] " Eric Sandeen
2020-02-22 7:24 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-02-22 15:23 ` Eric Sandeen
2020-02-25 18:13 ` [PATCH V4] " Eric Sandeen
2020-02-25 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-02-25 19:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-02-25 23:33 ` Eric Sandeen
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