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

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Date:	Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:18:22 -0800
From:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 RESEND 2] ext4: serialize unaligned asynchronous DIO

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 11:58 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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

Ted, Eric,

If it matters, you could add reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
from me. The modified version looks fine with me.

Mingming
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