Re: [PATCH v6 10/10] xfs: add background scanning to clear eofblocks inodes

Dave Chinner
2012-11-06T22:29:30Z

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:50:47AM -0500, Brian Foster wrote:
> Create a new mount workqueue and delayed_work to enable background
> scanning and freeing of eofblocks inodes. The scanner kicks in once
> speculative preallocation occurs and stops requeueing itself when
> no eofblocks inodes exist.
>
> The scan interval is based on the new
> 'speculative_prealloc_lifetime' tunable (default to 5m). The
> background scanner performs unfiltered, best effort scans (which
> skips inodes under lock contention or with a dirty cache mapping).
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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