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Re: [patch] Prevent AIL lock contention during transaction completion

To: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch] Prevent AIL lock contention during transaction completion
From: David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:45:59 +1100
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@xxxxxxx>, xfs-dev <xfs-dev@xxxxxxx>, xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:42:35PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:51:33PM +1100, Timothy Shimmin wrote:
> > So do we really need to call xlog_assign_tail_lsn() then?
> > Or are we just being conservative in case we missed something?
> 
> Conservative - the last thing I want is to introduce a subtle
> difference to the tail lsn in the log record because we didn't
> update it immediately before writing it to disk. I think we are
> probably safe removing it, but lets leave that until we got some
> wider test coverage on this change first....

Tim - did you finish the review of this? Testing on the 2048p
machine appears to have been successful, so I'm just waiting
on review ACKs now....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group


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