From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GFS2] Tidy up bmap & fix boundary bug [48/70]
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:00:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165226447.3752.605.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164999936.1194.79.camel@xenon.msp.redhat.com>
Hi,
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:05 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:20 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > >From 4cf1ed8144e740de27c6146c25d5d7ea26679cc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:21:06 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Tidy up bmap & fix boundary bug
> >
> > This moves the locking for bmap into the bmap function itself
> > rather than using a wrapper function. It also fixes a bug where
> > the boundary flag was set on the wrong bh.
> does boundary buffers even make sense for gfs?
>
Yes.
> They might increase cluster contention, and probably serve to
> just chop up io to the fiber-channel raids/disks that have really
> good caches and queuing algorithms.
>
I've yet to hear of a device that can merge non-contiguous i/o. Read the
comment above fs/mpage.c: mpage_readpages() to see how this scheme
works,
Steve.
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2006-11-30 12:20 Steven Whitehouse
2006-12-01 19:05 ` Russell Cattelan
2006-12-04 10:00 ` Steven Whitehouse [this message]
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