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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/5] ext4: Defer mmap cmtime update until writeback
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:30:02PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 04:22:12PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> A fancier implementation could probably avoid an extra journal
> >> transaction by adding a mapping_test_clear_cmtime call in
> >> ext4_writepages, but this should already be a considerable
> >> improvement -- we'll start one transaction per writepages call
> >> instead of one per page.
> >
> > I'd like to see more than just an ext4 implementation - btrfs and
> > XFS are the other main filesystems that should behave identically.
>
> Will do.
>
> >
> > Also, it's worthwhile to write a generic xfstest to ensure that they
> > all update the timestamp appropriately - if its' in xfstests, then
> > we can basically guarantee that it won't get randomly regressed in
> > future, and other filesystems can be easily verified as well sa
> > their implement this.
> >
>
> Is there a guide to writing an xfstest?

Yes. see the readme file in the root directory of the repository.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com


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