Re: Work Queue for btrfs compression writes

[Nick Krause]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
<ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/30/2014 12:54 AM, Nick Krause wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Gareth Pye <gareth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> You've been replied to politely, now listen and do or shut up.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Nick Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Guys ,
>>>> I am new to   reading  and writing  kernel code.I got interested in
>>>> writing code for btrfs as it seems to
>>>> need more work then other file systems and this seems other then
>>>> drivers, a good use of time on my part.
>>>> I interested in helping improving the compression of btrfs by using  a
>>>> set of threads using work queues like XFS
>>>> or reads and keeping the page cache after reading compressed blocks as
>>>> these seem to be a great way to improve
>>>> on  compression performance mostly with large partitions of compressed
>>>> data. I am not asking you to write the code
>>>> for me but as I am new a little guidance and help would be greatly
>>>> appreciated as this seems like too much work for just a newbie.
>>>> Thanks A lot,
>>>> Nick
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>>
>> Gareth
>> I am asking for advice on not writing the code but can someone please
>> test this for me as I don't have many hard drives lying around. In addition
>> I am new to btrfs , so I would like to known if this is a good idea or should
>> I just drop it?
>> Nick
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> I would look into using usermode linux (linux built with ARCH=um) for at
> least the initial debugging, it is marginally more efficient than
> virtualization, doesn't need root privileges, and allows you to run the
> kernel under GDB without needing separate hardware with a serial console
> or PS/2 keyboard.
>

That's what I am thinking the only issue is I am going to start my
reading on work queues first.
Regards Nick
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