On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:23:59PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > 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. > The result can be found at http://www.radian.org/~kvaneesh/ext4/meta-group/ This patch need to be further improved by grouping the meta-data at FLEX_BG or block group level rather than per inode. I am sending it so that others can take a look at the changes -aneesh -- 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
