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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:46:23 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: Beata Michalska <b.michalska@...sung.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org CC: tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, hughd@...gle.com, lczerner@...hat.com, hch@...radead.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, kyungmin.park@...sung.com, kmpark@...radead.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] fs: Add generic file system event notifications On 4/15/15 2:15 AM, Beata Michalska wrote: > Introduce configurable generic interface for file > system-wide event notifications to provide file > systems with a common way of reporting any potential > issues as they emerge. > > The notifications are to be issued through generic > netlink interface, by a dedicated, for file system > events, multicast group. The file systems might as > well use this group to send their own custom messages. ... > + 4.3 Threshold notifications: > + > + #include <linux/fs_event.h> > + void fs_event_alloc_space(struct super_block *sb, u64 ncount); > + void fs_event_free_space(struct super_block *sb, u64 ncount); > + > + Each filesystme supporting the treshold notifiactions should call > + fs_event_alloc_space/fs_event_free_space repsectively whenever the > + ammount of availbale blocks changes. > + - sb: the filesystem's super block > + - ncount: number of blocks being acquired/released so: > +void fs_event_alloc_space(struct super_block *sb, u64 ncount) > +{ > + struct fs_trace_entry *en; > + s64 count; > + > + spin_lock(&fs_trace_lock); Every allocation/free for every supported filesystem system-wide will be serialized on this global spinlock? That sounds like a non-starter... -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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