Re: [PATCHSET] writeback: convert writeback to unbound workqueue

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Thu, Mar 07 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There's no reason for writeback to implement its own worker pool when
> using workqueue is much simpler and more efficient.  This patchset
> replaces writeback's custom worker pool with unbound workqueue and
> also exports it to userland using WQ_SYSFS so that it can be tuned
> from userland as requested a couple releases ago.
> 
> This patchset contains the following four patches.
> 
>  0001-implement-current_is_workqueue_rescuer.patch
>  0002-writeback-remove-unused-bdi_pending_list.patch
>  0003-writeback-replace-custom-worker-pool-implementation-.patch
>  0004-writeback-expose-the-bdi_wq-workqueue.patch
> 
> 0001-0002 are prep patches.  0003 does the conversion.  0004 makes
> bdi_wq visible to userland.
> 
> This patchset is on top of v3.9-rc1 + "workqueue: implement workqueue
> with custom worker attributes" patchset[1] and available in the
> following git branch.
> 
>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git review-writeback-conversion

I like it, diffstat looks nice too :-)

Have you done any performance testing, or just functional verification?

-- 
Jens Axboe