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 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v15
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:56:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090831195642.GC12579@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831195602.GB12579@kernel.dk>
On Mon, Aug 31 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:41:26PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Christoph, let me know if there are things you are still not happy
> > > with and I will reply/address them. Note that this series has only
> > > received a light testing. This means that it boots and seems to work
> > > (flushes data on sync and at intervals) and does not corrupt data,
> > > but it hasn't received a thorough testing yet. That will come tomorrow.
> > > But I wanted to push this out there, so we can settle the code base
> > > quickly again.
> >
> > I'll slowly look over it later. But I think it would be extremly
> > helpful if we could get it into -next ASAP for wider testing.
>
> Yeah, will update my for-next branch. It _should_ be functionally
> equivalent to the previous posting which has recieved a LOT of testing,
> but there can be new bugs of course. So far it still seems fine, so
> should be safe...
Oh, and patch #2 desperately needs a new description since it's both
dated and now doesn't even describe the full patch. I'll get to that
too, of course.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-31 19:41 [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v15 Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/7] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 3/7] writeback: get rid of pdflush completely Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/7] writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 5/7] writeback: add name to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 6/7] writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_pages Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:51 ` [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v15 Christoph Hellwig
2009-08-31 19:56 ` Jens Axboe
2009-08-31 19:56 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-09-01 4:01 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-01 6:29 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-01 7:24 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-01 7:46 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-01 8:06 ` Jens Axboe
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