From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Artem Bityutskiy Subject: [PATCH 0/3] writeback: more clean-ups and fixes Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:22:18 +0300 Message-ID: <1278948141-2400-1-git-send-email-dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.233]:22778 "EHLO mgw-mx06.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755984Ab0GLP0E (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:26:04 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: [Sorry for a duplicating mail, I tried to make this series to be an In-Reply-To to the previous clean-up series, but failed, so just re-sending with git send-email ] And on top of those 4 clean-up patches I've implemented the following 3 patches which do further clean-up and fix one of the races I see. There is more work, but I am sending this early to get an early feedback. Note, I only gave few test to my patches - booted Fedora, made sure bdi writeback threads are created/deleted/doing writeback, hotplugged external USB drive, saw writeback thread created, unplugged and saw it be removed. Did some work while running a kernel with these patches. The patches are against your for-2.6.36 branch. My long-term plan is to get rid of unneeded wake-ups, but I'm still just reading your code and learning, and clean-up / fix things I spot. Artem.