Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:34:13 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 |
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:01:18AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > on the journalling side this would be one transaction (not 5 milion) > and... since inodes are grouped on disk, you can even get some better > coalescing this way... > > Wonder if we could do inode-grouping smartly; eg if we HAVE to write > inode X, also write out the atime-dirty inodes in range X-Y to X+Y > (where Y is some tunable) in the same IO..
We already have filesystems in the tree that do such advances things as inode writeback clustering for more than ten years :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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