[PATCH v3 00/18] periodic write-back timer optimization

[Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>]

Hi Al, Jens,

this is the third or fourth attempt. Al, would you please take a look
at this? Would it be possible to get your ack and then merge this
via Jens' tree?

The patches attempt to optimize the periodic write-back and stop it when
there are no dirty data. IOW, we do not want the thread to wake up every
5 seconds (by default), find there is nothing to do, and so on. We want
to save power instead.

The patches are against Jens Axboe's per-bdi write-back tree. Namely,
against:

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback-v12

Patches 01-16 introduce 2 VFS helpers and wrap all 'sb->s_dirt'
manipulations.

Patch 17 re-names s_dirt to s_dirty in order to make sure we catch
all direct s_dirt accesses.

Patch 18 optimizes the periodic 'sync_supers' thread. This used
to be 'pdflush', but Jens re-worked this area and now it is called
'sync_supers'. By the way, with Jens' changes the former kupdated stuff
stuff looks a lot cleaner and it is easier to work on top of that.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)