From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jack@suse.c
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v20
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:45:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090911134501.GA24668@think> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090911134241.GB19707@mit.edu>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:42:41AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:34:03AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (sorry if you receive this twice, the original posting had a mangled
> > From address).
> >
> > This is the 20th release of the writeback patchset. Changes since
> > v19 include:
> >
> > - Drop the max writeback pages patch from Ted. I think we should do
> > something to that effect, but there's really no reason to entangle
> > it with this patchset.
>
> That's reasonable, but I'd really like to know whether some VM hacker
> going to try to deal with this during the 2.6.32 window? Such as
> maybe Wu Fengguang's patches, perhaps?
Wu Fengguang's patches seem very reasonable to me. My only concern is
that with tossing it in all at once. I'd rather seen Jens' work go in
and then incremental benchmarking done afterward.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-11 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 7:34 [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v20 Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 1/7] writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 2/7] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 3/7] writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 4/7] writeback: get rid of pdflush completely Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 5/7] writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 6/7] writeback: add name to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 7:34 ` [PATCH 7/7] writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 0/7] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v20 Theodore Tso
2009-09-11 13:45 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-09-11 14:04 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 14:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-11 14:29 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-11 14:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-18 17:52 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-19 3:58 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-19 4:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-19 4:26 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20090919042607.GA19752@localhost>
2009-09-19 15:03 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20090919150351.GA19880@localhost>
2009-09-20 19:00 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-21 3:04 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 5:35 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 9:53 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 10:02 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-21 10:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 12:42 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-21 15:12 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 16:08 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-22 5:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-21 13:53 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-22 10:13 ` Wu Fengguang
[not found] ` <20090922101335.GA27432@localhost>
2009-09-22 11:30 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-22 11:45 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-22 12:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-22 17:41 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-22 13:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-22 15:59 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-23 1:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-23 14:08 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-24 1:32 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-09-22 11:30 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-22 13:33 ` Wu Fengguang
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