Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:58:39 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] On-demand Filesystem Initialisation |
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Tom Spink wrote: > > (resend to include CCs)
What cc's? Still no xfs cc on it. I added it to this reply....
> This (short) patch series is another RFC for the patch that introduces on-demand > filesystem initialisation. In addition to the original infrastructure > implementation (with clean-ups), it changes XFS to use this new infrastructure. > > I wrote a toy filesystem (testfs) to simulate scheduling/allocation delays and > to torture the mount/unmount cycles. I didn't manage to deadlock the system > in my tests. XFS also works as expected aswell, in that the global threads > are not created until an XFS filesystem is mounted for the first time. When the > last XFS filesystem is unmounted, the threads go away. > > Please let me know what you think!
Why even bother? This is why we have /modular/ kernels - if you're not using XFS then don't load it and you won't see those pesky threads. That'll save on a bunch of memory as well because the xfs module ain't small (>480k on i386)....
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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