From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7CB7F3F for ; Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:07:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51F6D98C.4090300@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:07:24 -0500 From: Mark Tinguely MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 46/49] xfs: Combine CIL insert and prepare passes References: <1374215120-7271-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1374215120-7271-47-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> In-Reply-To: <1374215120-7271-47-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> 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" Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 07/19/13 01:25, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner > > Now that all the log item preparation and formatting is done under > the CIL lock, we can get rid of the intermediate log vector chain > used to track items to be inserted into the CIL. > > We can already find all the items to be committed from the > transaction handle, so as long as we attach the log vectors to the > item before we insert the items into the CIL, we don't need to > create a log vector chain to pass around. > > This means we can move all the item insertion code into and optimise > it into a pair of simple passes across all the items in the > transaction. The first pass does the formatting and accounting, the > second inserts them all into the CIL. > > We keep this two pass split so that we can separate the CIL > insertion - which must be done under the CIL spinlock - from the > formatting. We could insert each item into the CIL with a single > pass, but that massively increases the number of times we have to > grab the CIL spinlock. It is much more efficient (and hence > scalable) to do a batch operation and insert all objects in a single > lock grab. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner > --- Removed the old log commit vector chain interface. Looks good. Still like the additional assert for cil space stealing. Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs