linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Increase maximum transaction size

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Message-ID: <172066485818.400039.6335659106550128846.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:35:28 -0400
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: Increase maximum transaction size


On Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:28:00 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Originally, we were quite conservative in limiting maximum transaction
> size to a quarter of the journal because we were not accounting
> transaction descriptor and revoke blocks. These days we do properly
> account them and reserve space for them from the total transaction
> credits. Thus there's no need to be so conservative and we can increase
> the maximum transaction size to one third of the journal (even half
> should work fine in principle but the performance will likely suffer in
> that case). This also fixes failures to grow filesystems with tiny
> journals.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] jbd2: Increase maximum transaction size
      commit: a794c9ad026f0a28044347f31929fcdb0270eadc

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>