From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4LLXxBu031963 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 16:33:59 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 98D743652AF for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 14:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (64-131-60-146.usfamily.net [64.131.60.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id sCXDGpDBKDl8TeiQ for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 14:36:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BF6FCD1.10805@sandeen.net> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 16:36:17 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] xfs: drop dmapi hooks References: <20100510140823.GA16540@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20100510140823.GA16540@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Dmapi support was never merged upstream, but we still have a lot of hooks > bloating XFS for it, all over the fast pathes of the filesystem. > > This patch drops over 700 lines of dmapi overhead. If we'll ever get HSM > support in mainline at least the namespace events can be done much saner > in the VFS instead of the individual filesystem, so it's not like this > is much help for future work. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig yeah, probably about time. There is a fair bit of dmapi crumbs left though: [sandeen@sandeen xfs]$ grep -ri dmapi * | wc -l 63 so I think this patch can go further toward its goal... -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs