From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] writeback: simplify the write back thread queue Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:56:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4C1F1B33.5050705@kernel.dk> References: <20100619210756.GA29875@lst.de> <4C1F18F9.4070206@kernel.dk> <20100621074903.GA28042@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from 0122700014.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.99.235]:42729 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab0FUH4g (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:56:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100621074903.GA28042@lst.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2010-06-21 09:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: >> I'm fine with this, we can always bring back support for > 1 writeback >> thread per bdi when the need arises. > > Note that this patch should actually make an eventual implementation > of > 1 writeback thread simpler if we want to go there - removing the > item from the list early means there is no need to deal with any kind of > race avoidance. Yes, I suspect we'll need to drive it differently than it was setup for, so no complaints on that side. What are the patches against? They don't apply on top of my for-2.6.36 branch that has the other wb bits. -- Jens Axboe