Re: [RFC][take 2] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate

2007-04-04 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Andreas Dilger wrote: On Apr 03, 2007 15:37 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: The extent insert code is derived out of the latest ext4 kernel source. I have tried to keep the code as close as possible to the kernel sources. This makes sure that any fixes for the tree building code in kernel

(un)lock_kernel() ?

2007-04-04 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
Why does ext4_fill_super release the BKL on entry and take it on both normal and abnormal exit? As far as I can see, ext4_fill_super is called by get_sb_bdev, which calls the -get_sb method without the BKL, and ext4_get_sb calls get_sb_bdev without the BKL. And the ext2 code does not touch the

Re: (un)lock_kernel() ?

2007-04-04 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 08:57 -0400, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: Why does ext4_fill_super release the BKL on entry and take it on both normal and abnormal exit? As far as I can see, ext4_fill_super is called by get_sb_bdev, which calls the -get_sb method without the BKL, and ext4_get_sb

Re: (un)lock_kernel() ?

2007-04-04 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
According to Documentation/filesystems/Locking, -get_sb() is called with the BKL held, but looking through the code, I'm not able to find where it is being taken. I noticed that too. Unless I'm just dumb and can't see it, I'm not able to find any BKL references during filesystem mounting

Re: Ext4 benchmarks

2007-04-04 Thread Cordenner jean noel
Hi, here is the first results of the round: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/ FFSB tests: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/ffsb-write.html Iozone: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/iozone.html Kernbuild: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/kernbuild.html

Re: Ext4 benchmarks

2007-04-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 04, 2007 19:06 +0200, Cordenner jean noel wrote: here is the first results of the round: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/ Jean Noel, thank you for the test results. It is always nice to see that ext4 is doing so well compared to ext3 and XFS. Ming Ming, it should

Re: Ext4 benchmarks

2007-04-04 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 13:21 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: On Apr 04, 2007 19:06 +0200, Cordenner jean noel wrote: here is the first results of the round: http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20070404/ Jean Noel, thank you for the test results. It is always nice to see that ext4 is doing

ext4 patch queue update

2007-04-04 Thread Mingming Cao
Ted, I Just rebased the ext4 patch queue to 2.6.21-rc5, # Added Reserve high 32 bit for 64 bit inode version i_version_hi.patch # Add mount option to turn off extents ext4_noextent_mount_opt.patch # Add mount option to turn off delayed allocation ext4_nodelalloc_mount_opt.patch And move