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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:26:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110419142640.GB26482@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110408015841.GV31057@dastard>

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:58:41AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:10:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed 06-04-11 12:08:05, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:37:15AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >   Well, I wouldn't bother too much with kswapd handling. MM people plan to
> > get rid of writeback from direct reclaim and just remove the dirty page
> > from LRU and recycle it once flusher thread writes it...
> 
> kswapd is not in the direct reclaim path - it's the background
> memory reclaim path.  Writeback from direct reclaim is a problem
> because of stack usage, and that problem doesn't exist for kswapd.

FYI the IO initiated from pageout() in kswapd/direct reclaim can
mostly be transfered to the flushers.

Here is the early RFC patch, and I'll submit an update soon.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg09199.html

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 166+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-03-29  5:14 ` [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF Amir Goldstein
2011-03-29 11:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-29 11:22   ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-29 12:17     ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-29 13:09       ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-03-29 13:09         ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-03-29 13:12         ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-29 13:38         ` James Bottomley
2011-03-29 17:20   ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 17:20     ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 17:33     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 18:10       ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 18:10         ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 18:45         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 19:13           ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 19:13             ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 19:57             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 19:59             ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-29 20:12               ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 20:12                 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 20:23                 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-29 23:09                   ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 23:09                     ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-30  5:58                     ` [Lsf] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 14:02                       ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 14:10                         ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 14:26                           ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 14:55                             ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 15:33                               ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 15:46                                 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-30 15:46                                   ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-30 20:32                                 ` Giridhar Malavali
2011-03-30 20:45                                   ` James Bottomley
2011-03-29 19:47   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-03-29 20:29   ` Jan Kara
2011-03-29 20:31     ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-30  0:33   ` Mingming Cao
2011-03-30  2:17     ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 11:13       ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-30 11:28         ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-30 14:07           ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01 15:19           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-01 16:30             ` Amir Goldstein
2011-04-01 21:46               ` Joel Becker
2011-04-02  3:26                 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-04-01 21:43             ` Joel Becker
2011-04-01 21:43             ` Joel Becker
2011-04-01 21:43             ` Joel Becker
2011-03-30 21:49       ` Mingming Cao
2011-03-31  0:05         ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-31  1:00         ` Joel Becker
2011-04-01 21:34           ` Mingming Cao
2011-04-01 21:49             ` Joel Becker
2011-03-29 15:35 ` [LSF][MM] page allocation & direct reclaim latency Rik van Riel
2011-03-29 19:05   ` [Lsf] " Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-29 20:35     ` Ying Han
2011-03-29 20:39       ` Ying Han
2011-03-29 20:45       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-29 20:53         ` Ying Han
2011-03-29 21:22     ` Rik van Riel
2011-03-29 22:38       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-29 22:13     ` Minchan Kim
2011-03-29 23:12       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-30 16:17       ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-30 16:49         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-31  0:42           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-03-31 15:15             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-31  9:30           ` Mel Gorman
2011-03-31 16:36             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-03-30 16:59         ` Dan Magenheimer
2011-03-29 17:35 ` [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF Chad Talbott
2011-03-29 19:09   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 20:14     ` Chad Talbott
2011-03-29 20:35     ` Jan Kara
2011-03-29 21:08       ` Greg Thelen
2011-03-30  4:18   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 15:37     ` IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Vivek Goyal
2011-03-30 22:20       ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 22:49         ` Chad Talbott
2011-03-31  3:00           ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-31 14:16         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 14:34           ` Chris Mason
2011-03-31 22:14             ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-31 23:43               ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01  0:55                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01  1:34               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01  4:36                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01  6:32                   ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: " Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-01  7:23                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 12:56                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 15:07                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01 14:49                   ` IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: [Lsf] " Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 22:25             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 14:50           ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: " Greg Thelen
2011-03-31 22:27             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 17:18               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01 19:57                 ` [LSF]: fc_rport attributes to further populate HBAAPIv2 Giridhar Malavali
2011-04-01 21:49                 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Dave Chinner
2011-04-02  7:33                   ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-02  7:34                     ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-05 13:13                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-05 22:56                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 14:49                       ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-06 15:39                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 19:49                           ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-06 23:07                           ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback Greg Thelen
2011-04-06 23:36                             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 19:24                               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 20:33                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 21:34                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 23:42                                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-08  0:59                                   ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-08  1:25                                     ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-08  1:25                                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12  3:17                                       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-08 13:43                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 23:08                         ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 20:04                           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 23:47                             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-08 13:50                               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-11  1:05                                 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 15:37                       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 16:08                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 17:10                           ` Jan Kara
2011-04-06 17:14                             ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-08  1:58                             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:26                               ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-04-06 23:50                         ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 17:55                           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-11  1:36                             ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15 21:07                               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-16  3:06                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-18 21:58                                   ` Jan Kara
2011-04-18 22:51                                     ` cgroup IO throttling and filesystem ordered mode (Was: Re: [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF)) Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19  0:33                                       ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:30                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 14:45                                           ` Jan Kara
2011-04-19 17:17                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 18:30                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-21  0:32                                               ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-21  0:29                                           ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:17                               ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 14:34                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 14:48                                   ` Jan Kara
2011-04-19 15:11                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 15:22                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 15:31                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 16:58                                           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 17:05                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 20:58                                               ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20  1:21                                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 10:56                                                   ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20 11:19                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 14:42                                                       ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20  1:16                                               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 18:44                                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-20 19:16                                                   ` Jan Kara
2011-04-21  0:17                                                   ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-21 15:06                                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-21 15:10                                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-21 17:20                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22  4:21                                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-22 15:25                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22 16:28                                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-04-25 18:19                                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-26 14:37                                                               ` Vivek Goyal

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