From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfs: add a reference count to the CIL context
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 16:54:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305842094.2825.89.camel@doink> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504190011.508745503@bombadil.infradead.org>
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 14:55 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> plain text document attachment (xfs-cil-ctx-refcounting)
> For the upcoming asynchronoyus discard support we need to be able to delay
> freeing the CIL context until the last discard request that reference it
> has completed. Add a reference count to the CIL context, and only clear
> the busy extents and free the CIL context structure when it reaches zero,
> and a work item to allow freeing it from irq context.
>
> Note that this means delaying the clearing of the busy extents for a little
> bit even on non-discard mounts, but with the new busy extent trim/reuse
> code there is no real life impact of this change.
It will affect allocation patterns but it's really hard to say
whether it will make them worse or better...
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This looks good. Encapsulating the context initialization
was a good step even without the new work item field. One
little thing below.
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
PS I've run out of time and will have to review the
fourth patch in this series tomorrow.
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c 2011-05-03 12:00:49.000000000 +0200
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c 2011-05-03 12:17:19.399350953 +0200
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
> #include "xfs_types.h"
> #include "xfs_bit.h"
> #include "xfs_log.h"
> -#include "xfs_inum.h"
> +#include "xfs_inum.h"
> #include "xfs_trans.h"
> #include "xfs_trans_priv.h"
> #include "xfs_log_priv.h"
Kill this hunk. (You added a space at end-of-line.)
. . .
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-04 18:55 [PATCH 0/4] online discard support V3 Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-04 18:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfs: add online discard support Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-19 21:53 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-20 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 11:43 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-20 13:57 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-20 13:40 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-20 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/4 v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-20 15:42 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-04 18:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfs: do not discard alloc btree blocks Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-19 21:54 ` Alex Elder
2011-05-04 18:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfs: add a reference count to the CIL context Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-19 21:54 ` Alex Elder [this message]
2011-05-20 10:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-04 18:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfs: make discard operations asynchronous Christoph Hellwig
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