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author | Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400 |
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committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2008-07-11 19:27:31 -0400 |
commit | cd1aac32923a9c8adcc0ae85e33c1ca0c5855838 (patch) | |
tree | 3d55d9249ef960a7e345969404d537e36dbd9609 /README | |
parent | 61628a3f3a37af2bf25daf8e26fd6b76a78c4f76 (diff) |
ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc
This provides a new ordered mode implementation which gets rid of using
buffer heads to enforce the ordering between metadata change with the
related data chage. Instead, in the new ordering mode, it keeps track
of all of the inodes touched by each transaction on a list, and when
that transaction is committed, it flushes all of the dirty pages for
those inodes. In addition, the new ordered mode reverses the lock
ordering of the page lock and transaction lock, which provides easier
support for delayed allocation.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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