linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Move quota initialization out of inode allocation transaction

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Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:42:37 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Move quota initialization out of inode
 allocation transaction

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:34:08AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Inode allocation transaction is pretty heavy (246 credits with quotas
> and extents before previous patch, still around 200 after it).  This is
> mostly due to credits required for allocation of quota structures
> (credits there are heavily overestimated but it's difficult to make
> better estimates if we don't want to wire non-trivial assumptions about
> quota format into filesystem).
> 
> So move quota initialization out of allocation transaction. That way
> transaction for quota structure allocation will be started only if we
> need to look up quota structure on disk (rare) and furthermore it will
> be started for each quota type separately, not for all of them at once.
> This reduces maximum transaction size to 34 is most cases and to 73 in
> the worst case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

Thanks, added to the dev branch for testing.

	      	     	 	    - Ted
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