[PATCH v6 10/10] xfs: add background scanning to clear eofblocks inodes
Mark Tinguely
tinguely at sgi.com
Tue Nov 6 11:04:53 CST 2012
On 11/06/12 08:50, Brian Foster wrote:
> Create a new mount workqueue and delayed_work to enable background
> scanning and freeing of eofblocks inodes. The scanner kicks in once
> speculative preallocation occurs and stops requeueing itself when
> no eofblocks inodes exist.
>
> The scan interval is based on the new
> 'speculative_prealloc_lifetime' tunable (default to 5m). The
> background scanner performs unfiltered, best effort scans (which
> skips inodes under lock contention or with a dirty cache mapping).
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Foster<bfoster at redhat.com>
> ---
Looks good. Nice series.
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>
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