linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix extent cache fragmentation

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Message-ID: <20160310043513.GC4937@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 23:35:13 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix extent cache fragmentation

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 03:17:40PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> > So in principle this patch is fine but I hate how handling of extent status
> > tree is proliferating to fs/ext4/extent.c to handle some cases especially
> > through special function flags. So looking into the code, probably it would
> > make sense to move all updates of the extent status tree handling down into
> > ext4_ext_map_blocks() and ext4_ind_map_blocks(). Thoughts?
>
> Agree. This was my initial diea but patch was too big for stable
> releases. In fact this is not critical fix so we can simply make is
> in good way and simply ignore @stable. Will send updated version shortly.

Hi Dmitry,

Have you had a chance to come up with an updated patch?

Thanks,

						- Ted
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