On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. > > I shall mark it as in progress then. > > For writer's contention, I was thinking of decreasing the lock > granularity. I have not really thought about it deeply yet, but my > initial plans are to identify areas where we can distribute the locks, > and maybe use techniques such as combining trees. > > Thanks a ton, > > Atri > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 09:24:23PM -0700, Atri Sharma wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I was looking through the project ideas page for picking up a project >>> do start working with BTRFS. I am really interested in Btree lock >>> contention project, but it seems to be marked that it has already been >>> done in v3.1 >>> >>> Is the project still open? Can I work on it? >>> >> >> Go for it, we still have plenty of lock contention, it's just in 3.1 we switched >> to a read/write lock which helped a bunch. Still if you have all writers you >> are going to hit quite a bit of lock contention, especially on the root nodes. >> If you have ideas go for it. Thanks, >> >> Josef > > > > -- > Regards, > > Atri > l'apprenant I am pretty weak with Mediawiki. Is there any way somebody could please place my name 'Atri Sharma' for the Btree locking contention in the wiki? Thanks, Atri -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
