[PATCH, needs a new owner] XFS Alloc Policies

[Mark Goodwin]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:03:28PM +1100, Mark Goodwin wrote:
>> Series of patches, originally by Dave Chinner. This series
>> of 18 patches is unfinished and needs a new owner - the
>> feature partially implements pluggable allocation policies
>> for XFS.
>>
>> A fairly substantial architectural write-up with community
>> debate/feedback on the design would be appropriate before
>> embarking on this. Tarball attached for the following:
> 
> Thanks for posting these.  I'm pretty sure these patches will
> get some sort of makeover before beeing ready, but they are
> an important building block for some of the interesting work
> we're planning to do (like the multi device work or ssd-aware
> allocators), so there will be some action on it.
> 

Yep. It would be good if there was some kind of write-up on
those plans since the feature will be fairly intrusive. I assume
it's been a back-of-the-envelope-with-beer kind of discussion
so far ..

Cheers
-- Mark