On Fri 14-07-17 15:13:27, Andreas Dilger wrote: > >> The downsides of this approach is that it causes the orphan list to be > >> a bottleneck. So we would definitely not want to do this all time. > > > > Yes and I think lazy extend/restart should mitigate this. > > Jan had a patch to improve the orphan list performance that never made it > into the kernel by having a per-CPU orphan list or similar. > > It recall it got hung up on running out of reserved inodes or similar, which > is an issue we should fix in any case. Yeah, and I've submitted patches for e2fsprogs to be able to set number of reserved inodes however they never got merged. I guess I can refresh those patches and resend if there's interest in the functionality and the feature... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
