From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] xfs: add unlink list pointers to xfs_inode
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:21:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200827072101.GE25305@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200825051753.GM12131@dread.disaster.area>
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 03:17:53PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> That's precisely the complexity this code gets rid of. i.e. the
> complex reverse pointer mapping rhashtable that had to be able to
> handle rhashtable memory allocation failures and so required
> fallbacks to straight buffer based unlink list walking. I much
> prefer that we burn a little bit more memory for *much* simpler,
> faster and more flexible code....
It's not like we care about memory allocation failures else where.
I suspect an xarray could work pretty well here, but I can look into
that myself once I find a little time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-12 9:25 [PATCH 00/13] xfs: in memory inode unlink log items Dave Chinner
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 01/13] xfs: xfs_iflock is no longer a completion Dave Chinner
2020-08-18 23:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-22 7:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 02/13] xfs: add log item precommit operation Dave Chinner
2020-08-22 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 03/13] xfs: factor the xfs_iunlink functions Dave Chinner
2020-08-18 23:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-22 7:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 04/13] xfs: arrange all unlinked inodes into one list Dave Chinner
2020-08-18 23:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-19 0:45 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:58 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-22 9:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-23 17:24 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-24 8:19 ` [RFC PATCH] xfs: use log_incompat feature instead of speculate matching Gao Xiang
2020-08-24 8:34 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-24 15:08 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-24 15:41 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-25 10:06 ` [PATCH] " Gao Xiang
2020-08-25 14:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-25 15:30 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-27 7:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 05/13] xfs: add unlink list pointers to xfs_inode Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-19 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-22 9:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-25 5:17 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-27 7:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 06/13] xfs: replace iunlink backref lookups with list lookups Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-19 0:52 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 07/13] xfs: mapping unlinked inodes is now redundant Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:14 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 08/13] xfs: updating i_next_unlinked doesn't need to return old value Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:19 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 09/13] xfs: validate the unlinked list pointer on update Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 10/13] xfs: re-order AGI updates in unlink list updates Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:29 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-19 1:01 ` Dave Chinner
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 11/13] xfs: combine iunlink inode update functions Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:30 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 12/13] xfs: add in-memory iunlink log item Dave Chinner
2020-08-19 0:35 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-12 9:25 ` [PATCH 13/13] xfs: reorder iunlink remove operation in xfs_ifree Dave Chinner
2020-08-12 11:12 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-19 0:45 ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-18 18:17 ` [PATCH 00/13] xfs: in memory inode unlink log items Darrick J. Wong
2020-08-18 20:01 ` Gao Xiang
2020-08-18 21:42 ` Dave Chinner
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