linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:25:57 +0100
From:	Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Btrfs mailing list <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs

Chris,

Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2016, 18:30:34 CET schrieb Chris Mason:
> For very large filesystems (30T+) our existing free space caching code
> can end up taking a huge amount of time during commits.  The new tree
> based code is faster and less work overall to update as the commit
> progresses.

Will be interesting to see whether this also helps with:

[Bug 90401] New: btrfs kworker thread uses up 100% of a Sandybridge core for 
minutes on random write into big file

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90401

Thanks,
-- 
Martin