linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: adjust the hint based zone allocation policy

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Message-ID: <20250902054201.GC11431@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 07:42:01 +0200
From: hch <hch@....de>
To: Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@....com>
Cc: "linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carlos Maiolino <cem@...nel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xfs: adjust the hint based zone allocation policy

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 10:52:05AM +0000, Hans Holmberg wrote:
> As we really can't make any general assumptions about files that don't
> have any life time hint set or are set to "NONE", adjust the allocation
> policy to avoid co-locating data from those files with files with a set
> life time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@....com>

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>