Okay. When the time comes will you push the XFS changes to mainline
or would you like us to?
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Thanks for taking a look. I'll send them over to -mm with patch 1,
> then, for some testing.
>
> On Monday 04 August 2008 16:28, Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
&g
Looks good to me.
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Implement XFS's large buffer support with the new vmap APIs. See the vmap
> rewrite patch for some numbers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
> ==
Nick Piggin wrote:
> XFS's vmap batching simply defers a number (up to 64) of vunmaps, and keeps
> track of them in a list. To purge the batch, it just goes through the list and
> calls vunamp on each one. This is pretty poor: a global TLB flush is still
> performed on each vunmap, with the most ex
