Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: introduce new i_write_mutex to protect fallocate

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On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 02:42:04PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> 
> I wonder what is the performance impact of this change ? Especially
> since we're not longer taking the lock only in unaligned aio/dio
> case but in all cases ?

Thinking about this some more, this is also going to break parallel
writes, which would be unfortunate.  We might want to change this to
using a rw mutex, where writes take a shared lock, and require
fallocate to take an exclusive lock....

				- Ted
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