linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

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Date:	Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:48:10 +0400
From:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Sigh, we HAVE a patch that was only adding delalloc to ext4, but it
> was rejected because "that functionality should go into the VFS".
> Since the performance improvement of delalloc is quite large, we'd
> like to get this into the kernel one way or another.  Can we make a
> decision if the ext4-specific delalloc is acceptable?

I think the latter one is better because it supports bs < pagesize
(though I'm not sure about data=ordered yet). I'm not against putting
most of the patch into fs/ext4/, but at least few bits to be changed
in fs/ - exports in  fs/mpage.c and one "if" in __block_write_full_page().

thanks, Alex

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