From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
chris.mason@oracle.com, david@fromorbit.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation()
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:08:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408130832.GA5178@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090408130346.GA12156@infradead.org>
On Wed, Apr 08 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 02:00:04PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > This is (again) a preparatory patch similar to commit
> > a2a9537ac0b37a5da6fbe7e1e9cb06c524d2a9c4. It open codes a simple
> > async way of executing do_thaw_all() out of context, so we can get
> > rid of pdflush.
>
> Any good reason this isn't pushed upstream for 2.6.30 yet?
The previous ones ARE in 2.6.30-rc1, but this one got added after 2.6.29
was released. I'll push this one, too.
> And if someone is inclined to clean up this area some generic way to
> run sysrq tasks in user context would be great, as a lot of them need
> to.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 12:00 [PATCH 0/13] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads #3 Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 01/13] buffer: switch do_emergency_thaw() away from pdflush_operation() Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 13:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-08 13:08 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 02/13] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 03/13] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 04/13] writeback get rid of pdflush completely Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 05/13] writeback: separate the flushing state/task from the bdi Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 06/13] writeback: support > 1 flusher thread per bdi Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 07/13] writeback: include default_backing_dev_info in writeback Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 08/13] writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writeback task Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 09/13] writeback: btrfs must register its backing_devices Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 10/13] writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 11/13] writeback: add name to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 12/13] writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty Jens Axboe
2009-04-08 12:00 ` [PATCH 13/13] writeback: ensure consistency for generic_sync_sb_inodes() with WB_SYNC_ALL Jens Axboe
2009-04-10 3:46 ` [PATCH 0/13] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads #3 Zhang, Yanmin
2009-04-10 7:21 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-13 3:18 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-04-17 13:07 ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-21 13:25 ` Jan Kara
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