On Apr 29, 2008 16:27 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > I haven't yet tested this. Let me know what you think. > > -aneesh > > This adds a per inode meta-block prealloc space from which > meta-data block requests are served. This help in making > sure meta-data block are closer. This is needed to speedup > unlink of the file. Any new prealloc space is allocated near > the goal block specified. The goal block is the last block > allocated for the file. So we don't keep the data-block and > meta-data block far apart. Does this code use the mballoc "group allocator" mechanism that it already uses for small files? It would be convenient to re-use this code by creating a "metadata allocation group" instead of creating another mechanism to aggregate small IO allocations. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
