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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:34:25 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081017060424.GA26192@skywalker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224201763-9637-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:02:43PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The multiblock allocator needs to be able to release blocks (and issue
> a blkdev discard request) when the transaction which freed those
> blocks is committed.  Previously this was done via a polling mechanism
> when blocks are allocated or freed.  A much better way of doing things
> is to create a jbd2 callback function and attaching the list of blocks
> to be freed directly to the transaction structure.


Why not use journal commit callback patch from andreas 
(MID:20080929201752.GN10950@webber.adilger.int
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/9148)

The patch you sent will allows only one call back to be registered.

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-17  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17  0:02 [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Replace hackish ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction with commit callback Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-17  6:04 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2008-10-17 10:02   ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-17 12:25     ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-17 20:27       ` Joel Becker
2008-10-19 22:49       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-10-20  1:13         ` Theodore Tso

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