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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] remove iomap_writepage v2
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:11:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220729141145.GA31605@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220729092216.GE3493@suse.de>

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:22:16AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There is some context missing because it's not clear what the full impact is
> but it is definitly the case that writepage is ignored in some contexts for
> common filesystems so lets assume that writepage from reclaim context always
> failed as a worst case scenario. Certainly this type of change is something
> linux-mm needs to be aware of because we've been blind-sided before.

Between willy and Johannes pushing or it I was under the strong assumption
that linux-mm knows of it..

> I don't think it would be incredibly damaging although there *might* be
> issues with small systems or cgroups. 

Johannes specifically mentioned that cgroup writeback will never call
into ->writepage anyway.


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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>,
	Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@wdc.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>,
	cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: remove iomap_writepage v2
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:11:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220729141145.GA31605@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220729092216.GE3493@suse.de>

On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 10:22:16AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There is some context missing because it's not clear what the full impact is
> but it is definitly the case that writepage is ignored in some contexts for
> common filesystems so lets assume that writepage from reclaim context always
> failed as a worst case scenario. Certainly this type of change is something
> linux-mm needs to be aware of because we've been blind-sided before.

Between willy and Johannes pushing or it I was under the strong assumption
that linux-mm knows of it..

> I don't think it would be incredibly damaging although there *might* be
> issues with small systems or cgroups. 

Johannes specifically mentioned that cgroup writeback will never call
into ->writepage anyway.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-29 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-19  4:13 [Cluster-devel] remove iomap_writepage v2 Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 1/4] gfs2: stop using generic_writepages in gfs2_ail1_start_one Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 21:22   ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2023-01-18 21:22     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2023-01-19  6:22     ` [Cluster-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-19  6:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/4] gfs2: remove ->writepage Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 3/4] zonefs: " Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  6:56   ` [Cluster-devel] " Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-07-19  6:56     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-07-19  4:13 ` [Cluster-devel] [PATCH 4/4] iomap: remove iomap_writepage Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  4:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-19  6:56   ` [Cluster-devel] " Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-07-19  6:56     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-07-22 17:56   ` [Cluster-devel] " Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-22 17:56     ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-28 11:10 ` [Cluster-devel] remove iomap_writepage v2 Jan Kara
2022-07-28 11:10   ` Jan Kara
2022-07-28 14:18   ` [Cluster-devel] " Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-28 14:18     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-28 22:48     ` [Cluster-devel] " Dave Chinner
2022-07-28 22:48       ` Dave Chinner
2022-07-28 23:26       ` [Cluster-devel] " Yang Shi
2022-07-28 23:26         ` Yang Shi
2022-07-29  9:22   ` [Cluster-devel] " Mel Gorman
2022-07-29  9:22     ` Mel Gorman
2022-07-29 14:11     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-07-29 14:11       ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-01 15:31       ` [Cluster-devel] " Johannes Weiner
2022-08-01 15:31         ` Johannes Weiner
2022-08-10 20:43         ` [Cluster-devel] " Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-10 20:43           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-10 21:32           ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Grünbacher
2022-08-10 21:32             ` Andreas Grünbacher
2022-08-10 23:17             ` [Cluster-devel] " Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-10 23:17               ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-08-11  5:58           ` [Cluster-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11  5:58             ` Christoph Hellwig

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