linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:32:56 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] basic delayed allocation in VFS

Alex Tomas wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> please review ...
> 
> thanks, Alex
> 
> 
> basic delayed allocation in VFS:
> 
>  * block_prepare_write() can be passed special ->get_block() which
>    doesn't allocate blocks, but reserve them and mark bh delayed
>  * a filesystem can use mpage_da_writepages() with other ->get_block()
>    which doesn't defer allocation. mpage_da_writepages() finds all
>    non-allocated blocks and try to allocate them with minimal calls
>    to ->get_block(), then submit IO using __mpage_writepage()
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>

Is this based on Christoph's work?

Christoph, or some other XFS hacker, already did generic delalloc, 
modeled on the XFS delalloc code.

	Jeff


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