On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:59 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Update the extent tree in case we have to reuse a busy extent, so that it > always is kept uptodate. This is done by replacing the busy list searches > with a new xfs_alloc_busy_reuse helper, which updates the busy extent tree > in case of a reuse. This allows us to allow reusing metadata extents > unconditionally, and thus avoid log forces especially for allocation btree > blocks. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> I think you finally got it Christoph. I have one question--which I may have mentioned before--but otherwise this looks good. I think the iterations have resulted in a better result. Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> . . . In xfs_alloc_busy_trim(): > @@ -2894,6 +2959,11 @@ fail: > * re-check if the trimmed extent satisfies the minlen requirement. > */ > spin_unlock(&args->pag->pagb_lock); > + if (fbno != bno || flen != len) { > + trace_xfs_alloc_busy_trim(args->mp, args->agno, bno, len, > + fbno, flen); > + } > + trace_xfs_alloc_busy_trim(args->mp, args->agno, bno, len, fbno, 0); > *rbno = fbno; > *rlen = 0; > } I don't see why you do two trace calls here, the second with 0 for the value of flen. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs