Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-17 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 12:41 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:32:37AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:38 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:55:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:13:53PM +0800, Wu,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-16 Thread Shaohua Li
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:38 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:55:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:13:53PM +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:27:33AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:07 +0800, Wu,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-15 Thread Wu Fengguang
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:55:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:13:53PM +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:27:33AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:07 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +0800, Li,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-11 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 05:13:53PM +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:27:33AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:07 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:38 +0800, Wu,

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Wu Fengguang
Shaohua, On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:40:30PM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: Hi, We have file readahead to do asyn file read, but has no metadata readahead. For a list of files, their metadata is stored in fragmented disk space and metadata read is a sync operation, which impacts the efficiency

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:38 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:15:19AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:26 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: Shaohua, On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:40:30PM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: Hi, We have file readahead to do

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Wu Fengguang
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:38 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:15:19AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:26 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: Shaohua, On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:40:30PM

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-10 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:07 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:03:16AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 09:38 +0800, Wu, Fengguang wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:15:19AM +0800, Li, Shaohua wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 22:26 +0800, Wu, Fengguang

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-04 Thread Jeff Moyer
Shaohua Li shaohua...@intel.com writes: Hi, We have file readahead to do asyn file read, but has no metadata readahead. For a list of files, their metadata is stored in fragmented disk space and metadata read is a sync operation, which impacts the efficiency of readahead much. The patches

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-04 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 00:14 +0800, Jeff Moyer wrote: Shaohua Li shaohua...@intel.com writes: Hi, We have file readahead to do asyn file read, but has no metadata readahead. For a list of files, their metadata is stored in fragmented disk space and metadata read is a sync operation,

[PATCH v2 0/5] add new ioctls to do metadata readahead in btrfs

2011-01-03 Thread Shaohua Li
Hi, We have file readahead to do asyn file read, but has no metadata readahead. For a list of files, their metadata is stored in fragmented disk space and metadata read is a sync operation, which impacts the efficiency of readahead much. The patches try to add meatadata readahead for btrfs. In