On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 12:24:55PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 05, 2008 07:55 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > > /** > > > - * ext4_new_blocks_old() -- core block(s) allocation function > > > + * ext4_orlov_new_blocks() -- core block(s) allocation function > > > > what is orlov means? this is core function for non extent based without > > mballoc block allocation, right? > > Orlov is the name of the INODE allocator, not the block allocator. I'm > not sure there is a name for the block allocator except "old" or "bitmap". What do you suggest to rename it as ? I actually got the name from http://lwn.net/Articles/14633/. But since the old allocator the block location depends more closely on where the inodes are place i guess we can name even the block as orlov allocator. > In the future I suspect we won't want to keep this version at all, using > the mballoc allocator even for block-mapped files, but it is useful for > now for performance comparisons. > The patch which is marked in the subject is exactly doing that. -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
