linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH V3 RESEND 2] ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

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Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:58:21 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 RESEND 2] ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

On 02/07/2011 09:59 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 09:33:36PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
>>
>> Hey Eric,
>>
>> One question about this patch.  You are currently using a hashed array
>> of size 37 for the waitqueue; what about using a similarly sized
>> hashed array for the aio_mutex?  We only take it for unaligned
>> mutexes, and I'm trying to work on reducing the size of ext4 inode,
>> since it gets rather large in the inode cache....
>>
>> 	     	 	   	   	    	- Ted
> 
> Like this....  I also changed to_ioend_wq() and ioend_wq[] to be
> ext4_ioend_wq() and ext4__ioend_wq[], since they are now global
> variables.
> 

Looks fine to me, thanks, feel free to put an akpm-style comment
in the commit about what you fixed up.

-Eric
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