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 1968, and delalloc is 1209. To

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

2005-03-04 Thread Alex Tomas
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:43:31 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, have you had a chance to prototype your idea of rooting extents in ea ? I think all you need for this are: 1) allocate EA in ext3_new_inode() 2) write a replacement for ext3_init_tree_desc() just few

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

2005-03-04 Thread Alex Tomas
On 03 Mar 2005 17:12:14 -0800 Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing, we need to keep in mind is - we need to make sure that ordered mode also improved - since all our testcode focuses on writeback mode and the default mode is ordered :( I've just cooked the patch to

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

2005-03-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Mar 04, 2005 15:29 +0300, Alex Tomas wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:43:31 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, have you had a chance to prototype your idea of rooting extents in ea ? I think all you need for this are: 1) allocate EA in ext3_new_inode() 2)