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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	jaxboe@fusionio.com, James.Bottomley@suse.de,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	tytso@mit.edu, chris.mason@oracle.com, swhiteho@redhat.com,
	konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:42:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100728144214.GB16314@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100728090025.GA9252@lst.de>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:00:25AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:58:30AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > I see.  It probably would be good to have ordering requirements
> > carried in the bio / request, so that filesystems can mix and match
> > barriers of different strengths as necesasry.  As you seem to be
> > already working on it, are you interested in pursuing that direction?
> 
> I've been working on that for a while, but it got a lot more urgent
> as there's been an application hit particularly hard by the barrier
> semantics on cache less devices and people started getting angry
> about it.  That's why fixing this for cache less devices has become
> a higher priority than solving the big picture.

And in the process IO controller cgroup stuff will also benefit otherwise
excessive draining on request queue takes away any service differentiation
CFQ provides among groups.

Vivek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-27 16:56 [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-27 17:54 ` Jan Kara
2010-07-27 18:35   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-27 18:42     ` James Bottomley
2010-07-27 18:51       ` Ric Wheeler
2010-07-27 19:43       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-27 19:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  8:08     ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28  8:20       ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28 13:55         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28 14:23           ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28 14:37             ` James Bottomley
2010-07-28 14:44               ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28 16:17                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28 16:17               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28 16:16             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28  8:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  8:40         ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28  8:50           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  8:58             ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28  9:00               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  9:11                 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-07-28  9:16                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  9:24                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28  9:38                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  9:28                   ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-07-28  9:35                     ` READ_META semantics, was " Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28 13:52                       ` Jeff Moyer
2010-07-28  9:17                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28  9:28                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28  9:48                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-28 10:19                     ` Steven Whitehouse
2010-07-28 11:45                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-28 12:47                     ` Jan Kara
2010-07-28 23:00                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 10:45                         ` Jan Kara
2010-07-29 16:54                           ` Joel Becker
2010-07-29 17:02                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 17:02                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29  1:44                     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-29  2:43                       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-29  2:43                       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-29  8:42                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 20:02                           ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-29 20:06                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30  3:17                               ` Vivek Goyal
2010-07-30  7:07                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30  7:41                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2010-08-02 18:28                                   ` [RFC PATCH] Flush only barriers (Was: Re: [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics) Vivek Goyal
2010-08-03 13:03                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04 15:29                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2010-08-04 16:21                                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29  8:31                       ` [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 11:16                         ` Jan Kara
2010-07-29 13:00                         ` extfs reliability Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 13:08                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 14:12                             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 14:34                               ` Jan Kara
2010-07-29 18:20                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 18:49                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 14:26                           ` Jan Kara
2010-07-29 18:20                             ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 18:58                           ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-29 19:44                       ` [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics Ric Wheeler
2010-07-29 19:49                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 19:56                           ` Ric Wheeler
2010-07-29 19:59                             ` James Bottomley
2010-07-29 20:03                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-29 20:07                                 ` James Bottomley
2010-07-29 20:11                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 12:45                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 12:56                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04  1:58                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-07-30 12:46                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 12:57                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 13:09                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 13:12                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 17:40                                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-29 20:58                               ` Ric Wheeler
2010-07-29 22:30                             ` Andreas Dilger
2010-07-29 23:04                               ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-29 23:08                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-07-29 23:08                                 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-07-29 23:28                                 ` James Bottomley
2010-07-29 23:37                                   ` James Bottomley
2010-07-30  0:19                                     ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-30 12:56                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30  7:11                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30  7:11                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 12:56                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 13:07                                   ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-30 13:22                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 13:27                                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 13:09                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 13:25                                     ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 13:34                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 13:44                                         ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-30 14:20                                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-31  0:47                                             ` Jan Kara
2010-07-31  9:12                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-02 13:14                                                 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-02 10:38                                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-02 12:48                                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-02 19:03                                                   ` xfs rm performance Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-02 19:18                                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 19:31                                                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-02 19:01                                             ` [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-02 19:26                                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 12:56                                 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-31  0:35                         ` Jan Kara
2010-07-29 19:44                       ` Ric Wheeler
2010-08-02 16:47                     ` Ryusuke Konishi
2010-08-02 17:39                     ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 13:11                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-05 13:32                         ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 14:52                           ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-08-05 14:52                           ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-08-05 15:17                             ` Chris Mason
2010-08-05 17:07                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 19:48                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-05 19:48                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-05 19:50                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 20:05                               ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-06 14:56                                 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-08-06 18:38                                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-06 23:38                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-06 23:34                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 17:09                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 19:32                           ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-08-05 19:40                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05 13:11                       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28 13:56                   ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-07-28 14:42                 ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2010-07-27 19:37   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-03 18:49   ` [PATCH, RFC 1/2] relaxed cache flushes Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-03 18:51     ` [PATCH, RFC 2/2] dm: support REQ_FLUSH directly Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-04  4:57       ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2010-08-04  8:54         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-05  2:16           ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-26 22:50             ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-27  0:40               ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-27  1:20                 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-08-27  1:43               ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-27  4:08                 ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-27  5:52                   ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-27 14:13                     ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30  4:45                       ` Jun'ichi Nomura
2010-08-30  8:33                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-30 12:43                           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-08-30 12:45                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-08-06 16:04     ` [PATCH, RFC] relaxed barriers Tejun Heo
2010-08-06 23:34       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-07 10:13       ` [PATCH REPOST " Tejun Heo
2010-08-08 14:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-09 14:50           ` Tejun Heo

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