Re: [PATCH 3/3] ext4: optimize quota write locking

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On Sat 27-03-10 15:15:40, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Quota inode is append only. In most cases writes performed
> to allocated blocks before i_size. Currently we grup i_mutex
> for each quota write to protect i_size and i_mtime. But in most
> cases i_size not changed. And i_mtime is not that important
> as for regular files. So let's update it only when quota file
> increased. This allow us to avoid i_mutex in most cases.
  But this won't help performance at all because dqio_mutex serializes
writes to the file already, right?

								Honza

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SUSE Labs, CR
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