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XFS Committed Item List

The XFS Committed Item List tracks in-memory logged changes awaiting a journal checkpoint.

CIL membership does not certify durable storage. [1] Linux v6.16 inserts items into per-CPU lists and aggregates them during a push. [2]

Relations

related
xfs-delayed-logging, xfs-ail

Citations

  1. Linux v6.16: XFS Logging Design, asynchronous transactions, checkpoints and item lifecycle (accessed 2026-10-15)
  2. Linux v6.16: xfs_log_cil.c, per-CPU insertion, aggregation and asynchronous flush (accessed 2026-10-15)
  3. Hesela: XFS delayed logging and commit boundaries (accessed 2026-10-15)

JSON: /data/terms/xfs-cil.json