Linus Torvalds wrote: > I do not believe that "get_block()" is as big of a problem as people make > it out to be. I didn't mention get_block - disk accesses obviously far outweigh filesystem cpu/cache usage in overall impact. The question is, what happens to disk access patterns when we do the deferred allocation. > One form of deferred writes I _do_ like is the mount-time-option form. > Because that one doesn't add complexity. Kind of like the "noatime" mount > option - it can be worth it under some circumstances, and sometimes it's > acceptable to not get 100% unix semantics - at which point deferred writes > have none of the disadvantages of trying to be clever. And the added attraction of requiring almost no effort. -- Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Roman Zippel
- Races in affs_unlink(), affs_rm... Alexander Viro
- Re: Races in affs_unlink(), aff... Roman Zippel
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Andrea Arcangeli
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Alexander Viro
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Daniel Phillips
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Daniel Phillips
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Roman Zippel
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [RFC] Generic deferred file... Chris Mason
- Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fix) Byron Stanoszek
- Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fi... Linus Torvalds
- Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fi... Linus Torvalds
- Re: test13-pre6 (Fork Bug with Athlons? Temporary Fi... Graham Murray
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