Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938816AbcLVIpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:45:52 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:54790 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933452AbcLVIpu (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Dec 2016 03:45:50 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:45:49 -0800 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Layton Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 00/30] fs: inode->i_version rework and optimization Message-ID: <20161222084549.GA8833@infradead.org> References: <1482339827-7882-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1482339827-7882-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 452 Lines: 8 On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 12:03:17PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote: > Only btrfs, ext4, and xfs implement it for data changes. Because of > this, these filesystems must log the inode to disk whenever the > i_version counter changes. That has a non-zero performance impact, > especially on write-heavy workloads, because we end up dirtying the > inode metadata on every write, not just when the times change. [1] Do you have numbers to justify these changes?