Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-12 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
h/hsm type features for separate future patches/ debates, those really shouldn't hold up the basic fallocate interface. I agree with Christoph that we are just diverging too much in trying to club those decisions here. Dave, Andreas, Ted ? Regards Suparna > - > To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [PATCH] dio: remove bogus refcounting BUG_ON

2007-07-04 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ROTECTED]> > > > > diff -r 509ce354ae1b fs/direct-io.c > > --- a/fs/direct-io.cSun Jul 01 22:00:49 2007 + > > +++ b/fs/direct-io.cTue Jul 03 14:56:41 2007 -0700 > > @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ direct_io_worker(int rw, struct kiocb *i > > spin_lock_irqs

Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction

2007-05-16 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
"unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-11 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
for review, possibly with a mention of apps using it today ? One reason for introducing the mode parameter was to allow the interface to evolve incrementally as more options / semantic questions are proposed, so that we don't have to make all the decisions right now. So it would be good to

Re: [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: accomodate >32 bit capabilities

2007-05-10 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
is good. This does mean no sanity checking of fcaps, am not sure if that matters, I'm guessing it should be similar to the case for other security attributes. Regards Suparna > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Principal Software Engineer > Cluster File Systems, Inc. >

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-09 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:50:44PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya writes: > > > > This looks like it will have the same problem on s390 as > > > sys_sync_file_range. Maybe the prototype should be: > > > > > > asmlinkage long sys_f

Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-05-09 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
m=117708124913098&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117767607229807&w=2 Are there any better ideas ? Regards Suparna > > Paul. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: ChunkFS - measuring cross-chunk references

2007-04-25 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
space, which means either we only allow > >it on 64-bit systems, or we need to consider a migration so that even > >on 32-bit platforms, stat() functions like stat64(), insofar that it > >uses a stat structure which returns a 64-bit ino_t. > > > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-23 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:58:49PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:21:34AM -0500, Amit Gud wrote: > > > > This is an initial implementation of ChunkFS technique, briefly discussed > > at: http://lwn.net/Articles/190222 and > > http://ci

Re: [RFC][PATCH] ChunkFS: fs fission for faster fsck

2007-04-23 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
NFIG_EXT2_FS_XIP > should be "no" for clean compile. > > > Please comment, suggest, criticize. Patches most welcome. > > > Best, > AG > -- > May the source be with you. > http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~gud -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PATCH 4 of 8] Add flags to control direct IO helpers

2007-02-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:05:44PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:38:45PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > + * The flags parameter is a bitmask of: > > > + * > > > + * DIO_PLACEHOLDERS (use placeholder pages for locking) > >

Re: [PATCH 4 of 8] Add flags to control direct IO helpers

2007-02-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping; > - ssize_t retval; > - size_t write_len = 0; > - > - /* > - * If it's a write, unmap all mmappings of the file up-front. This > - * will cause any pte dirty bits to be propagated into the pageframes > - * for the subsequent filemap_write_and_wait(). > - */ > - if (rw == WRITE) { > - write_len = iov_length(iov, nr_segs); > - if (mapping_mapped(mapping)) > - unmap_mapping_range(mapping, offset, write_len, 0); > - } > - > - retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, > - offset, nr_segs); > - if (rw == WRITE && mapping->nrpages) { > - int err; > - pgoff_t end = (offset + write_len - 1) > - >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; > - > - /* O_DIRECT is allowed to drop i_mutex, so more data > - * could have been dirtied by others. Start io one more > - * time > - */ > - err = filemap_fdatawrite_range(mapping, offset, > -offset + write_len - 1); > - if (!err) > - err = invalidate_inode_pages2_range(mapping, > - offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, end); > - if (err) > - retval = err; > - } > - return retval; > + return iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, iocb, iov, > + offset, nr_segs); > } > > /** > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Testing ext4 persistent preallocation patches for 64 bit features

2007-02-07 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
; + if (goal < le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block) || > + goal >= le32_to_cpu(es->s_blocks_count)) > + goal = le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block); > + group_no = (goal - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block)) / > + EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb); > + } > gdp = ext3_get_group_desc(sb, group_no, &gdp_bh); > if (!gdp) > goto io_error; > > _ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [patch 0/9] buffered write deadlock fix

2007-02-02 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ork completed if needed - please work agaisnt mainline. If you need help with fixing the clashes, please let me know. Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [take33 10/10] kevent: Kevent based AIO (aio_sendfile()/aio_sendfile_path()).

2007-01-18 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:39:51PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:21:42PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Since you are implementing new APIs here, have you considered doing an > > aio_sendfilev to be able t

Re: [take33 10/10] kevent: Kevent based AIO (aio_sendfile()/aio_sendfile_path()).

2007-01-17 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
largefile()) > + flags = O_LARGEFILE; > + > + if (IS_ERR(tmp)) { > + err = fd; > + goto err_out_exit; > + } > + > + fd = get_unused_fd(); > + if (fd < 0) { > + err = fd; > + goto err_out_put_name; > + } > + > + if ((flags+1) & O_ACCMODE) > + flags++; > + > + err = open_namei(AT_FDCWD, tmp, flags, 0400, &nd); > + if (err) > + goto err_out_fdput; > + > + file = nameidata_to_filp(&nd, flags); > + if (!file) > + goto err_out_fdput; > + > + /* One reference will be released in sys_close(), > + * second one through req->destructor() > + */ > + atomic_inc(&file->f_count); > + > + req = kaio_sendfile(kevent_fd, sock_fd, file, offset, count); > + if (!req) { > + err = -EINVAL; > + goto err_out_fput; > + } > + > + fd_install(fd, file); > + > + return fd; > + > +err_out_fput: > + fput(file); > + fput(file); > +err_out_fdput: > + put_unused_fd(fd); > +err_out_put_name: > + putname(tmp); > +err_out_exit: > + return err; > +} > + > +static int kevent_aio_callback(struct kevent *k) > +{ > + struct kaio_req *req = k->event.ptr; > + struct kaio_private *priv = req->priv; > + > + if (!priv->count) { > + __u32 *processed = (__u32 *)&priv->processed; > + k->event.ret_data[0] = processed[0]; > + k->event.ret_data[1] = processed[1]; > + return 1; > + } > + > + return 0; > +} > + > +int kevent_aio_enqueue(struct kevent *k) > +{ > + int err; > + struct kaio_req *req = k->event.ptr; > + struct kaio_private *priv = req->priv; > + > + err = kevent_storage_enqueue(&k->user->st, k); > + if (err) > + goto err_out_exit; > + > + priv->kevent_user = k->user; > + if (k->event.req_flags & KEVENT_REQ_ALWAYS_QUEUE) > + kevent_requeue(k); > + > + return 0; > + > +err_out_exit: > + return err; > +} > + > +int kevent_aio_dequeue(struct kevent *k) > +{ > + kevent_storage_dequeue(k->st, k); > + > + return 0; > +} > + > +static void kaio_thread_stop(struct kaio_thread *th) > +{ > + kthread_stop(th->thread); > + kfree(th); > +} > + > +static int kaio_thread_start(struct kaio_thread **thp, int num) > +{ > + struct kaio_thread *th; > + > + th = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kaio_thread), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!th) > + return -ENOMEM; > + > + th->refcnt = 1; > + spin_lock_init(&th->req_lock); > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&th->req_list); > + init_waitqueue_head(&th->wait); > + > + th->thread = kthread_run(kaio_thread_process, th, "kaio/%d", num); > + if (IS_ERR(th->thread)) { > + int err = PTR_ERR(th->thread); > + kfree(th); > + return err; > + } > + > + *thp = th; > + wmb(); > + > + return 0; > +} > + > +static int __init kevent_init_aio(void) > +{ > + struct kevent_callbacks sc = { > + .callback = &kevent_aio_callback, > + .enqueue = &kevent_aio_enqueue, > + .dequeue = &kevent_aio_dequeue, > + .flags = 0, > + }; > + int err, i; > + > + kaio_req_cache = kmem_cache_create("kaio_req", sizeof(struct kaio_req), > + 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL); > + kaio_priv_cache = kmem_cache_create("kaio_priv", sizeof(struct > kaio_private), > + 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL, NULL); > + > + memset(kaio_threads, 0, sizeof(kaio_threads)); > + > + for (i=0; i + err = kaio_thread_start(&kaio_threads[i], i); > + if (err) > + goto err_out_stop; > + } > + > + err = kevent_add_callbacks(&sc, KEVENT_AIO); > + if (err) > + goto err_out_stop; > + > + return 0; > + > +err_out_stop: > + while (--i >= 0) { > + struct kaio_thread *th = kaio_threads[i]; > + > + kaio_threads[i] = NULL; > + wmb(); > + > + kaio_thread_stop(th); > + } > + return err; > +} > +module_init(kevent_init_aio); > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-10 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:08:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:14:19 +0530 > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:02:42AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:26:21 +0530 >

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-09 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:02:42AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:26:21 +0530 > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Patches against next -mm would be appreciated

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-05 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:02:33AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05 2007, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:02:42AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:26:21 +0530 > > > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-04 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:02:42AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:26:21 +0530 > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:53:08 +0530 >

[PATCHSET 4][PATCH 1/1] AIO fallback for pipes, sockets and pollable fds

2007-01-04 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
0; mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); @@ -473,7 +478,7 @@ redo2: } if (bufs < PIPE_BUFFERS) continue; - if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) { + if (filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK || !is_sync_kiocb(iocb)

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-04 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:50:11PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:51:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > >>So long as AIO threads do the same, there would be no problem (plugging > >>is optional, of course). >

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-03 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:51:58PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>Plus Jens's unplugging changes add more reliance upon context inside > >>*current, for the plu

Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2007-01-03 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:15:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:53:08 +0530 > Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patchset implements changes to make filesystem AIO read > > and write asynchronous for the non O_DIRECT c

[PATCHSET 2][PATCH 1/1] Combining epoll and disk file AIO

2007-01-02 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:08:56PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > (2) Most of these other applications need the ability to process both > network events (epoll) and disk file AIO in the same loop. With POSIX AIO > they could at least sort of do this using signals (yeah

Re: [RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets

2007-01-02 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ee that you found a way to make it workable ... (I'm guessing that you are copying over the part of the stack in use at the time of every switch, is that correct ? At what point do you do the allocation of the saved stacks ? Sorry I should hold off all these questions till your patch comes out)

Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 7/8] Filesystem AIO read

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
_mapping_read) without having to set up dummy iocbs. Does that clarify ? We could abstract this away within a lock page wrapper, but I don't know if that makes a difference. > I/O goes through the ->aio_read/->aio_write routines I'd prefer to > get rid of the task_struct fie

Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:55:10AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:11:49PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > -extern void FASTCALL(lock_page_slow(struct page *page)); > > +extern int FASTCALL(__lock_page_slow(struct page *page, wait_que

Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 1/6] Add a wait queue parameter to the wait_bit action routine

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
Sorry this should have read [PATCH 1/8] instead of [PATCH 1/6] Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[FSAIO][PATCH 8/8] AIO O_SYNC filesystem write

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
the background and so typically appears async to the caller except for memory throttling and non-block aligned writes involving read-modify-write. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/aio.h

[FSAIO][PATCH 7/8] Filesystem AIO read

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
reasoning for why it is an issue is now much clearer (see explanation in the comment below in aio.c), and the solution is perhaps slightly simpler. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/fs/aio.c

[FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ntext (which points to sync or async context as the case may be) as the wait parameter. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/include/linux/pagemap.h | 30 ++--- linux-2.6.20

[FSAIO][PATCH 5/8] Enable wait bit based filtered wakeups to work for AIO

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
added in aio_wake_function to allow for other kinds of waiters which do not require wait bit, based on the assumption that the key passed in would be NULL in such cases. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20

[FSAIO][PATCH 4/8] Add a default io wait bit field in task struct

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/include/linux/sched.h | 11 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/kernel/fork.c |3 ++- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN i

[FSAIO][PATCH 3/8] Routines to initialize and test a wait bit key

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
init_wait_bit_key() initializes the key field in an already allocated wait bit structure, useful for async wait bit support. Also separate out the wait bit test to a common routine which can be used by different kinds of wakeup callbacks. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTEC

[FSAIO][PATCH 2/8] Rename __lock_page to lock_page_slow

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
etc. This patch renames __lock_page to lock_page_slow, so that __lock_page and __lock_page_slow can denote the versions which take a wait queue parameter. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/i

[FSAIO][PATCH 1/6] Add a wait queue parameter to the wait_bit action routine

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
Add a wait queue parameter to the action routine called by __wait_on_bit to allow it to determine whether to block or not. Signed-off-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1-root/fs/buffer.c |

[PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write

2006-12-28 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
) Sequential-Write30.84 (28.94) 30.09 (28.39) Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubs

[RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets

2006-12-27 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ll of this work is not in conflict with kevent development. In fact it is my hope that progress made in getting these pieces of the puzzle in place would also help us along the long term goal of eventual convergence. Regards Suparna -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology

Re: GFS, what's remaining

2005-09-06 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ractice is really an open question. True, but what usually ends up happening is that this question can never quite be answered in black and white. So both just continue to exist and apps need to support both ... convergence becomes impossible and long term duplication inevitable. So at leas

Re: aio-stress regressions in 2.6.12 narrowed down to AIC7xxx

2005-07-06 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:07:29PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:00:24AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2005 03:56, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > Has anyone else noticed major throughput regressions for random > > > reads/w

Re: aio-stress throughput regressions from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12

2005-07-06 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:00:24AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > On Friday 01 July 2005 03:56, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > Has anyone else noticed major throughput regressions for random > > reads/writes with aio-stress in 2.6.12 ? > > Or have there been any other FS/

Re: aio-stress throughput regressions from 2.6.11 to 2.6.12

2005-07-05 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:25:55AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:26:00PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > On one test system I see a degradation from around 17+ MB/s to 11MB/s > > for random O_DIRECT AIO (aio-stress -o3 testext3/rwfile5) fro

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-10 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
e linux-aio' in > the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more info on Linux AIO, > see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ > Don't email: mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-05 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
ything from happening all at once." -- John Wheeler > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in > the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more info on Linux AIO, > see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ > Don't email: mailto:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AIO and vectored I/O support for cifs

2005-04-03 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
and to double check what other > filesystem do for returning errors on mmap and sendfile on inodes that > are marked direct i/o. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More m

Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O

2005-04-01 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
o __wake_up_common() which again tries the > notification function of each waiter on the queue until it finds one > that succeeds. > > Cheers, > Trond > > -- > Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

Re: [Ext2-devel] Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)

2005-03-14 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
e hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > ___ > Ext2-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Delayed alloc for ordered-mode

2005-03-13 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
+ > do { > struct page *page = bvec->bv_page; > > @@ -162,6 +173,16 @@ > static struct bio *ext3_wb_bio_submit(struct bio *bio, handle_t *handle) > { > bio->bi_end_io = ext3_wb_end_io; > + if (handle) { > + /* > +

Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)

2005-03-04 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:40:21AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Mar 03, 2005 14:03 +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > diffstat of the 3 patches : 22 files changed, 5920 insertions(+), > > 47 deletions. The largest is in the extents patch (2743), mballoc > > is

Re: [Ext2-devel] Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)

2005-03-03 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
o merge these pieces in incrementally, a little at a time, each piece being very well-understood and with demonstrated performance improvements at every step. For example, the next step after the following could be to plug parts of mballoc in to the above, etc ... Does that make sense ?

Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents)

2005-03-03 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
to maintain. - Similarly, how about (as Mingming I think already hinted) implementing ext3_get_blocks to do multi-block lookup and allocation and using it in delalloc ? Hmm, maybe I speak too soon - have to look at the interfaces more closely and verify if this is feasible. Rega