linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext3: Avoid starting a transaction in writepage when not necessary

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Message-ID: <20090327230341.GF5176@mit.edu>
Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:03:41 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext3: Avoid starting a transaction in writepage
	when not necessary

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:46PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 27-03-09 16:24:31, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > 
> > We don't have to start a transaction in writepage() when all the blocks
> > are a properly allocated. Even in ordered mode either the data has been
> > written via write() and they are thus already added to transaction's list
> > or the data was written via mmap and then it's random in which transaction
> > they get written anyway.
> > 
> > This should help VM to pageout dirty memory without blocking on transaction
> > commits.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
>   Please, use the patch below instead (and I'd also wait a few days for
> Mingo to check whether it also helps him). It also changes data=writeback
> mode in the same way and it adheres to coding style...

FYI, Looks like Linus has already cherry-picked your first patch from
LKML and dropped it into mainline.  My other two patches haven't gone
in yet as far as I can tell.

So we'll need to do a delta patch that has the differences from your
new patch and what Linus has already pulled into mainline.

    	      	   	     	     	    - Ted
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