From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] writeback: quit background/periodic work when other works are enqueued
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:13:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101151318.GD15406@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101101120733.GA9006@localhost>
On Mon 01-11-10 20:07:33, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> You patches are more complete than mine, so let's use them. However I
> do prefer to have a standalone wb_check_background_flush() that is
> called _after_ wb_check_old_data_flush(). This helps make the writeout
> a bit more ordered and the separation itself looks a bit more clean to
> me.
>
> Followed are the slightly updated patches. IMHO they are straightforward
> fixes that could be merged before other writeback changes.
One more question - who's going to merge it with Linus? Would you send
the patches to Jens' to merge them via the block tree (note that Jens has
a new email address since he joined FusionIO)? Or maybe to Andrew?
Honza
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-01 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-13 12:31 [PATCH 0/4] [RFC] transfer vmscan pageout works to the flusher thread Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] writeback: integrated background work Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 22:46 ` Minchan Kim
2010-09-14 0:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 12:45 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] writeback: quit background/periodic work when other works are enqueued Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 12:40 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-01 12:07 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 15:08 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-01 15:13 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2010-11-01 12:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] writeback: integrated background writeback work Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 12:14 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 12:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 12:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 15:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-02 1:57 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-02 1:57 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-05 12:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-01 15:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] writeback: integrated background writeback work Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-01 20:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 20:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] " Wu Fengguang
2010-11-01 20:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-02 1:55 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-02 1:55 ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-05 12:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-09-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] writeback: introduce bdi_start_inode_writeback() Wu Fengguang
2010-09-14 13:36 ` Jan Kara
2010-11-01 12:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-09-13 12:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] vmscan: transfer async file writeback to the flusher Wu Fengguang
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