linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve buffered streaming write ordering

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Message-Id: <200810080146.06692.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:46:06 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve buffered streaming write ordering

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 00:36, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:29:11AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > That's true, but there is a lot of code duplication, which means that
> > bugs or changes in write_cache_pages() would need to be fixed in
> > ext4_write_cache_pages().  So another approach that might be better
> > from a long-term code maintenance point of view is to add a flag in
> > struct writeback_control that tells write_cache_pages() not to update
> > those fields, and avoid duplicating approximately 95 lines of code.
> > It means a change in a core mm function, though, so if folks thinks
> > its too ugly, we can make our own copy in fs/ext4.

Heh, funny you should mention that. I was looking at it just the other
day. It's riddled with bugs (some of which supposedly are by-design
circumventing of data integrity).

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-10/msg00917.html

I'm also looking (in the same thread) at doing a patch to improve fsync
performance and ensure it doesn't get stuck behind concurrent dirtiers
by adding another tag to the radix-tree. Mikulas is also looking at
improving that problem with another method. It would be nice if fsdevel
gurus would participate (I'll send out my patchset when I get it working,
and recap the situation and competing ideas).
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