Re: [PATCH 3/8] xfs: make the log ticket transaction id random

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:39:10AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Ideally, yes. However, I didn't want to introduce a global
> monatomically increasing counter into the transaction code. I'm
> seeing upwards of 50-60k transactions/s on my test box - that's
> getting into the range where reliable global counters become
> scalability limitations. I know this can be solved, but it is
> somewhat complex and I'm not sure at this point that the complexity
> is necessary. What do you think?

I think making log revoery absolutely fail proof is nessecary, but for
now your version defintively is an improvment over the current version,
so ACK.