From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n1G0FvMx105244 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:15:57 -0600 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 5EFC519412EB for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.189]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id BhEqRFI3CtEjAsAR for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id a6so1501812tib.18 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:15:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4998AE71.2040304@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:08:17 +1100 From: Mark Goodwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH, needs a new owner] XFS Alloc Policies References: <49939F90.20905@sgi.com> <20090212185853.GA23056@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090212185853.GA23056@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs-oss Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:03:28PM +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote: >> Series of patches, originally by Dave Chinner. This series >> of 18 patches is unfinished and needs a new owner - the >> feature partially implements pluggable allocation policies >> for XFS. >> >> A fairly substantial architectural write-up with community >> debate/feedback on the design would be appropriate before >> embarking on this. Tarball attached for the following: > > Thanks for posting these. I'm pretty sure these patches will > get some sort of makeover before beeing ready, but they are > an important building block for some of the interesting work > we're planning to do (like the multi device work or ssd-aware > allocators), so there will be some action on it. > Yep. It would be good if there was some kind of write-up on those plans since the feature will be fairly intrusive. I assume it's been a back-of-the-envelope-with-beer kind of discussion so far .. Cheers -- Mark _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs