From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:25:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408152541.GA14895@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090408055853.GJ5178@kernel.dk>
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:58:54AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> I'm not even sure what is documented about this sort of thing in biodoc,
> but it's actually somewhat outside the realm of block layer
> documentation. The block layer should document that you need to call
> unplug if you are going to be waiting for that IO. How the vm code does
> it is implementation detail mostly, the important thing is that it gets
> done :-)
Fair enough; I agree a lot of the problem is the page writeback
subsystem isn't well documented at all, and is crying out for a review
for possible refactorization and cleanup....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 20:24 [PATCH 0/3] Ext3 latency improvement patches Theodore Ts'o
2009-03-27 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks Theodore Ts'o
2009-03-27 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() Theodore Ts'o
2009-03-27 20:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] ext3: Avoid starting a transaction in writepage when not necessary Theodore Ts'o
2009-03-27 22:23 ` Jan Kara
2009-03-27 23:03 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-30 13:22 ` Jan Kara
2009-03-27 22:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] ext3: Use WRITE_SYNC for commits which are caused by fsync() Jan Kara
2009-03-27 20:55 ` [PATCH 1/3] block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks Jan Kara
2009-04-07 6:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-07 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-07 7:08 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-07 7:17 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-07 8:16 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-07 7:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-07 7:57 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-07 19:09 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-07 19:32 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-07 21:44 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-07 22:19 ` [PATCH] block_write_full_page: switch synchronous writes to use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG Theodore Tso
2009-04-07 23:09 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-07 23:46 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-08 8:08 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-09 17:59 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 6:00 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 15:26 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-08 5:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] block_write_full_page: Use synchronous writes for WBC_SYNC_ALL writebacks Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 15:25 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-04-07 14:19 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-27 20:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] Ext3 latency improvement patches Chris Mason
2009-03-27 21:03 ` Chris Mason
2009-03-27 21:19 ` Jan Kara
2009-03-27 21:30 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-27 21:54 ` Jan Kara
2009-03-27 23:09 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-28 0:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-28 0:24 ` David Rees
2009-03-30 14:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-03-30 11:23 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
[not found] ` <20090330112330.GA11357@skywalker>
2009-03-30 11:44 ` Chris Mason
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