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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] block bits for 3.1-rc
On 2011-08-20 19:41, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 03:16:40PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> - Revert of the CFQ meta data special treatment patch, it's been shown
>> to regress a kernel build workload by about 10%. More investigation
>> is needed, for 3.1 lets just back it out.
>
> Sorry, but you can't simply do that without any coordination. We have
> added that marker to xfs now that the stupid special casing stopped,
> and turning it back on will cause us massive slowdows. Next time
> please better coordinate this with its users. In fact I have never
> seen this patch or a discussion on any mailinglist.

The discussion was on lkml, as Mike points out. But yes, short time to
react. Since I can't easily cater to both cases right now, how about we
add a temporary second meta flag that is only used for tracing?

REQ_META = (__REQ_META | __REQ_META_TRACE),
RET_META_TRACE = __REQ_META_TRACE,

You get the idea. Not super pretty, but it should solve the immediate
issue.

--
Jens Axboe



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