From: Kazuya Mio Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] ext4: inode preferred block allocation Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:23:51 +0900 Message-ID: <4BC81E97.9030701@sx.jp.nec.com> References: <4BC57A1D.9080105@sx.jp.nec.com> <87pr2092e2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 , Theodore Tso , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Return-path: Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:51000 "EHLO tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755247Ab0DPI0e (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:26:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pr2092e2.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Andi, 2010/04/16 0:11, Andi Kleen wrote: > Kazuya Mio writes: > > >> We implemented new two ioctls to allocate preferred blocks using inode PA. >> The old implementation idea is the following (b). >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=124962738211206&w=4 > > I had to read until patch 3/3 to find out what a "PA" actually is. > It might make the patch descriptions more clearer if it was spelled > out at least once in each. Thank you for informing me. I will take care not to abbreviate the first "preallocation" to "PA". Best regards, Kazuya Mio