Eric Sandeen wrote:
quoted text
> Theodore Tso wrote:
>> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:21:05PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> it should lay out a 4g file in random 1m direct IOs to fragment it and
>>> get a lot of extents, then launch 2 threads, one each doing random reads
>>> and random writes of that same file.
>>>
>>> I can't make this trip it, though ...
>> If all of the blocks are in the page cache, you won't end up calling
>> ext4_get_blocks().  Try adding a shell script which runs in parallel
>> doing a "while /bin/true ; do sleep 1; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache; done".
>>
>> 							- Ted
> 
> I made sure it was a big enough file, and consumed enough memory on the
> system before the test, that the entire file couldn't fit in memory.
> 
> I can try doing the dropping in the bg ... but it should have been going
> to disk already.
> 
> -Eric

in a desperate attempt to show the window, I tried this in
ext4_ext_put_in_cache():

        cex->ec_block = -1;
        cex->ec_start = -1;
        schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ/2);
        cex->ec_start = start;
        cex->ec_block = block;

and this in ext4_ext_in_cache():

        if (cex->ec_block == -1 || cex->ec_start == -1)
                printk("%s got bad cache\n", __func__);

and it's not firing.

-Eric
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