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* [PATCH 0/11] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v9
@ 2009-05-28 11:46 Jens Axboe
  2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 01/11] ntfs: remove old debug check for dirty data in ntfs_put_super() Jens Axboe
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From: Jens Axboe @ 2009-05-28 11:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, tytso
  Cc: chris.mason, david, hch, akpm, jack, yanmin_zhang, richard,
	damien.wyart

Hi,

Here's the 9th version of the writeback patches. Changes since v8:

- Fix a bdi_work on-stack allocation hang. I hope this fixes Ted's
  issue.
- Get rid of the explicit wait queues, we can just use wake_up_process()
  since it's just for that one task.
- Add separate "sync_supers" thread that makes sure that the dirty
  super blocks get written. We cannot safely do this from bdi_forker_task(),
  as that risks deadlocking on ->s_umount. Artem, I implemented this
  by doing the wake ups from a timer so that it would be easier for you
  to just deactivate the timer when there are no super blocks.

For ease of patching, I've put the full diff here:

  http://kernel.dk/writeback-v9.patch

and also stored this in a writeback-v9 branch that will not change,
you can pull that into Linus tree from here:

  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback-v9

 block/blk-core.c            |    1 +
 drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c  |    1 +
 drivers/char/mem.c          |    1 +
 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c          |   24 +-
 fs/buffer.c                 |    2 +-
 fs/char_dev.c               |    1 +
 fs/configfs/inode.c         |    1 +
 fs/fs-writeback.c           |  804 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/fuse/inode.c             |    1 +
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c        |    1 +
 fs/nfs/client.c             |    1 +
 fs/ntfs/super.c             |   33 +--
 fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c        |    1 +
 fs/ramfs/inode.c            |    1 +
 fs/super.c                  |    3 -
 fs/sync.c                   |    2 +-
 fs/sysfs/inode.c            |    1 +
 fs/ubifs/super.c            |    1 +
 include/linux/backing-dev.h |   73 ++++-
 include/linux/fs.h          |   11 +-
 include/linux/writeback.h   |   15 +-
 kernel/cgroup.c             |    1 +
 mm/Makefile                 |    2 +-
 mm/backing-dev.c            |  518 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/page-writeback.c         |  151 +------
 mm/pdflush.c                |  269 ------------
 mm/swap_state.c             |    1 +
 mm/vmscan.c                 |    2 +-
 28 files changed, 1286 insertions(+), 637 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe



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2009-05-28 11:46 [PATCH 0/11] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v9 Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 01/11] ntfs: remove old debug check for dirty data in ntfs_put_super() Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 02/11] btrfs: properly register fs backing device Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 03/11] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 04/11] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 14:13   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-28 22:28     ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 05/11] writeback: get rid of pdflush completely Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 06/11] writeback: separate the flushing state/task from the bdi Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 07/11] writeback: support > 1 flusher thread per bdi Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 08/11] writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writeback task Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 09/11] writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 10/11] writeback: add name to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 11:46 ` [PATCH 11/11] writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 13:56 ` [PATCH 0/11] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v9 Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 22:28   ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 14:17 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-28 14:19   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-28 20:35     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-28 22:27       ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-29 15:37       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29 15:50         ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-29 16:02           ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29 17:07             ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-03  7:39               ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-03  7:44                 ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-03  7:46                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-03  7:50                     ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-03  7:54                       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-03  7:59                   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-03  8:07                     ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-28 14:41 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-29 16:07 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29 16:20   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29 17:09     ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-03  8:11       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-29 17:08   ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-03 11:12 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-06-03 11:42   ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-04 15:20 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-04 19:07   ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04 19:13     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-04 19:50       ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-04 20:10         ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-04 22:34           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-05 19:15             ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-05 21:14               ` Jan Kara
2009-06-06  0:18                 ` Chris Mason
2009-06-06  0:23                   ` Jan Kara
2009-06-06  1:06                     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-08  9:23                       ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-08 12:23                         ` Jan Kara
2009-06-08 12:28                           ` Jens Axboe
2009-06-08 13:01                             ` Jan Kara
2009-06-09 18:39                             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-06  1:00                 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-06  0:35               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-04 21:37         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-06-05  1:14   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2009-06-05 19:16     ` Jens Axboe

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