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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: use bios directly in the log code v4
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:30:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190617233036.GQ3773859@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190605191511.32695-1-hch@lst.de>

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 09:14:47PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> this series switches the log writing and log recovery code to use bios
> directly, and remove various special cases from the buffer cache code.
> 
> A git tree is available here:
> 
>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git xfs-log-bio
> 
> Gitweb:
> 
>     http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/xfs.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xfs-log-bio

I don't know if either (a) I'll find something in the other log cleanup
series to comment on or (b) if Dave has any further thoughts about
whatever it is he's doing with xfs_buf in userspace.  However, for
patches 1-15 and 17-24, I think this looks good enough for more
widespread testing, so...

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

--D

> 
> Chances since v3:
>  - add a few additional cleanup patches
>  - clean up iclog allocation
>  - drop a not required vmap invalidation
>  - better document the iclog size fields
>  - fix vmap invalidation
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  - rename the 'flush' flag to 'need_flush'
>  - spelling fixes
>  - minor cleanups
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - rebased to not required the log item series first
>  - split the bio-related code out of xfs_log_recover.c into a new file
>    to ease using xfs_log_recover.c in xfsprogs
>  - use kmem_alloc_large instead of vmalloc to allocate the buffer
>  - additional minor cleanups

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-17 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-05 19:14 use bios directly in the log code v4 Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 01/24] xfs: remove the no-op spinlock_destroy stub Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 02/24] xfs: remove the never used _XBF_COMPOUND flag Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 03/24] xfs: renumber XBF_WRITE_FAIL Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 04/24] xfs: make mem_to_page available outside of xfs_buf.c Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 05/24] xfs: remove the l_iclog_size_log field from strut xlog Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 21:17   ` Dave Chinner
2019-06-17 23:08   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 06/24] xfs: cleanup xlog_get_iclog_buffer_size Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 21:21   ` Dave Chinner
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 07/24] xfs: reformat xlog_get_lowest_lsn Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 08/24] xfs: remove XLOG_STATE_IOABORT Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-06  0:13   ` Dave Chinner
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 09/24] xfs: don't use REQ_PREFLUSH for split log writes Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 10/24] xfs: factor out log buffer writing from xlog_sync Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 11/24] xfs: factor out splitting of an iclog " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:14 ` [PATCH 12/24] xfs: factor out iclog size calculation " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 13/24] xfs: update both stat counters together in xlog_sync Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 14/24] xfs: remove the syncing argument from xlog_verify_iclog Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 15/24] xfs: make use of the l_targ field in struct xlog Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 16/24] xfs: use bios directly to write log buffers Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17 23:27   ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-06-18  5:58     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 17/24] xfs: move the log ioend workqueue to struct xlog Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 18/24] xfs: return an offset instead of a pointer from xlog_align Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 19/24] xfs: use bios directly to read and write the log recovery buffers Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-08  7:37   ` Dave Chinner
2019-07-08 16:19     ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-07-08 16:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-08 21:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-08 22:15         ` Dave Chinner
2019-07-09 15:23           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-09 15:44             ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 20/24] xfs: stop using bp naming for " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 21/24] xfs: remove unused buffer cache APIs Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 22/24] xfs: properly type the b_log_item field in struct xfs_buf Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 23/24] xfs: remove the b_io_length " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 24/24] xfs: add struct xfs_mount pointer to " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17 23:30 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]

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