[PATCH 0/6] [XFS] introduce a AG inode tree walker

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Mon Mar 16 04:40:19 CDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:53:38AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:46:37PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > This series splits up the sync and reclaim code into three
> > separate actions. The first is the tree walker, the second is
> > the inode validation and the third is the operation to execute
> > on the inode.
> > 
> > This allows us to somewhat abstract the radix tree away from the
> > act of walking the cached inodes and puts in place mechanisms that
> > can be extended for bulk inode cache lookups.
> > 
> > This also splits the inode writeback into separate data and metadata
> > sync operations and optimises them a little......
> 
> Just did a quick XFSQA run with your whole patch series applied and
> I get this oops in 001:

I haven't seen that - it runs through a UML test run just fine.
I'll see if I can reproduce it...

If you drop the last patch (the iterator patch) does it work
ok?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com




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