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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c index a37384054c9e..dd002facf6c9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c +++ b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c @@ -156,15 +156,13 @@ * fast commit recovery even if that area is invalidated by later full * commits. * - * 1) Make fast commit atomic updates more fine grained. Today, a fast commit - * eligible update must be protected within ext4_fc_start_update() and - * ext4_fc_stop_update(). These routines are called at much higher - * routines. This can be made more fine grained by combining with - * ext4_journal_start(). + * 1) Fast commit's commit path locks the entire file system during fast + * commit. This has significant performance penalty. Instead of that, we + * should use ext4_fc_start/stop_update functions to start inode level + * updates from ext4_journal_start/stop. Once we do that we can drop file + * system locking during commit path. * - * 2) Same above for ext4_fc_start_ineligible() and ext4_fc_stop_ineligible() - * - * 3) Handle more ineligible cases. + * 2) Handle more ineligible cases. */ #include <trace/events/ext4.h> |