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authorKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2017-03-31 15:01:06 -0800
committerKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>2017-03-31 15:01:06 -0800
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is implementing a new kind of reservation of journal space for the new, long
running transactions.
+ * Allocation information (currently just bucket generation numbers & priority
+ numbers, for LRU caching) needs to be moved into a btree, and we need to
+ start persisting actual allocation information so we don't have to walk all
+ extents at mount time.
+
+ Just moving the existing prios/gens to a btree will be a significant
+ improvement - besides getting us incrementally closer to persisting full
+ allocation information, the existing code is a rather hacky mechanism dating
+ from the early days of bcache and has recently been the source of an annoying
+ bug due to the design being a bit fragile, and it'll be a performance
+ improvement since it'll get rid of the last source of forced journal flushes.
+
### Other
* When we're using compression, we end up wasting a fair amount of space on
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## Developers
+ * End user documentation needs a lot of work - complete man pages, etc.
+
* bcachefs-tools needs some fleshing out in the --help department
## Users