linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during transaction.

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Message-ID: <170fa0d20901190916qf176ec0o6ed2e69add19411@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:16:14 -0500
From:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during 
	transaction.

On 1/19/09, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com> wrote:
> On 1/19/09, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>  >  Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Use an rbtree for tracking blocks freed during transaction.
>  >
>  >  With this patch we track the block freed during a transaction using
>  >  red-black tree.  We also make sure contiguous blocks freed are collected
>  >  in one node in the tree.
>  >
>  >  Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>  >  Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
>
>
> Any particular reason for (re)posting this patch?
>
>  This appears to have been committed upstream via commit:
>  c894058d66637c7720569fbe12957f4de64d9991

Ah, sorry I missed the discussion in the "Ext4 tree backports for
2.6.27.10 and 2.6.28" thread.

regards,
Mike
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