From: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
To: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:04:14 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7370.7646.qm@web32603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <391315777.14430@ustc.edu.cn>
--- Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> The following patches fix the sluggish writeback behavior.
> They are well understood and well tested - but not yet widely tested.
>
> The first patch reverts the debugging -mm only
> check_dirty_inode_list.patch -
> which is no longer necessary.
>
> The following 4 patches do the real jobs:
>
> [PATCH 2/5] writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode
> lists 8
> [PATCH 3/5] writeback: fix ntfs with sb_has_dirty_inodes()
> [PATCH 4/5] writeback: remove pages_skipped accounting in
> __block_write_full_page()
> [PATCH 5/5] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to
> indicate more io
>
> They share the same goal as the following patches in -mm. Therefore
> I'd
> recommend to put the last 4 new ones after them:
>
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-2.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-3.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-4.patch
> writeback-fix-comment-use-helper-function.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-5.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-6.patch
>
writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-7.patch
> writeback-fix-periodic-superblock-dirty-inode-flushing.patch
>
> Regards,
> Fengguang
Hi Fenguang,
now that Peters stuff seems to make it into mainline, do you think
your fixes should go in as well? Would definitely help to broaden the
tester base. Definitely by one very interested tester :-)
Keep on the good work
Martin
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Martin Knoblauch
email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 11:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-02 8:41 [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-03 11:04 ` Martin Knoblauch [this message]
2007-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] revert check_dirty_inode_list.patch Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8 Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 3/5] writeback: fix ntfs with sb_has_dirty_inodes() Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] writeback: remove pages_skipped accounting in __block_write_full_page() Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-04 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 21:55 ` David Chinner
2007-10-03 1:43 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-03 1:43 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-03 2:22 ` David Chinner
2007-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to indicate more io Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 21:47 ` David Chinner
2007-10-03 1:34 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-03 1:34 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-03 2:41 ` David Chinner
2007-10-04 2:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-04 2:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-04 5:03 ` David Chinner
2007-10-05 3:36 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-05 3:36 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-05 7:41 ` David Chinner
2007-10-05 11:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-05 11:55 ` Fengguang Wu
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