linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -v2] ext4: optimize ext4_should_retry

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:11:28 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] ext4: optimize ext4_should_retry_alloc() to improve ENOSPC performance

On Jun 16, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote:
> 
> Well, since ext4_mb_free_metadata() is the only user of
> ext4_journal_callback_add(), ext4_journal_callback_add() won't have any
> user after your patch. Maybe we could just stop playing these abstraction
> games nobody currently uses and just implement a helper function to add
> freeing callback to the transaction list including increment of the pending
> counter.

We use the journal callback for Lustre servers.  Please don't remove it.

Cheers, Andreas






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