linux-kernel - Re: Formal Reiser4 inclusion and todo list?

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Message-ID: <4C56C461.8020207@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:13:05 +0200
From:	Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@...il.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
CC:	Christian Stroetmann <stroetmann@...olinux.com>,
	Glenn D <doiggl@...ocitynet.com.au>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux reiserfs-devel <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Formal Reiser4 inclusion and todo list?

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 03:43:05PM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote:
>   
>> Hi Glenn;
>>
>> On the 28.07.2010 21:58, I wrote:
>>     
>>> Aloha Glenn;
>>>
>>> At the 28.07.2010 17:21, you (doiggl@...ocitynet.com.au) wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> The following items are still unaddressed:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. running igrab() in the writepage() path is really going to hammer
>>>>>    inode_lock.  Something else will need to be done here.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Running iput() in entd() is a bit surprising.  iirc there
>>>>> are various
>>>>> ways
>>>>>    in which this can recur into the filesystem, perform I/O, etc.  I
>>>>> guess it
>>>>>    works..
>>>>>    But again, it will hammer inode_lock.
>>>>>           
>
> inode_lock should be going away within 6 months or so, with the
> vfs-scaling developments (see linux-fsdevel).
>   

Yup, I keep a track of your efforts,
it would be nice..

> Inode refcounting becomes very light-weight, as it should be.
>
>
>   
>>>>> 3. the writeout logic in entd_flush() is interesting (as in
>>>>> "holy cow").
>>>>>    It's very central and really needs some good comments describing
>>>>>           
>>>> what's
>>>>         
>>>>>    going on in there - what problems are being solved, which decisions
>>>>>           
>>>> were
>>>>         
>>>>>    taken and why, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. reiser4_wait_page_writeback() needs commenting.
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. reading the comment in txnmgr.c regarding MAP_SHARED pages: a number
>>>>>           
>>>> of
>>>>         
>>>>>    things have changed since then.  We have page-becoming-writeable
>>>>>    notifications and probably soon we'll always take a
>>>>> pagefault when a
>>>>>    MAP_SHARED page transitions from pte-clean to pte-dirty (although I
>>>>> wouldn't
>>>>>    recommend that a filesystem rely upon the latter for a while yet).
>>>>>           
>
> It is now possible to trap all dirtying activity from all sources
> except get_user_pages (but filesystems tend to ignore that little
> problem).
>   

Thanks for looking at this.

Edward.
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