From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v15 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:56:42 +0200 Message-ID: <20090831195642.GC12579@kernel.dk> References: <1251747693-32354-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <20090831195148.GA26130@infradead.org> <20090831195602.GB12579@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:36323 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752622AbZHaT4k (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:56:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090831195602.GB12579@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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