Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161443AbWHENXI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:23:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161440AbWHENXI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:23:08 -0400 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([143.182.124.22]:12713 "EHLO azsmga101.ch.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161312AbWHENXH (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Aug 2006 09:23:07 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.07,214,1151910000"; d="scan'208"; a="98608715:sNHT12904167843" Message-ID: <44D49BAA.6050501@linux.intel.com> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:22:50 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Valerie Henson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Akkana Peck , Mark Fasheh , Jesse Barnes , Chris Wedgwood , jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu, Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Relative lazy atime References: <20060803063622.GB8631@goober> <20060805122537.GA23239@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20060805122537.GA23239@lst.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 14 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Another idea, similar to how atime updates work in xfs currently might > be interesting: Always update atime in core, but don't start a > transaction just for it - instead only flush it when you'd do it anyway, > that is another transaction or evicting the inode. this is sort of having a "dirty" and "dirty atime" split for the inode I suppose.. shouldn't be impossible to do with a bit of vfs support.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/