From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
chris.mason@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org, tytso@mit.edu,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:39:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914123929.GF14984@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090914123425.GF24075@duck.suse.cz>
On Mon, Sep 14 2009, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 14-09-09 11:36:28, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> >
> > Since it's an opportunistic writeback and not a data integrity action,
> > don't punt to blocking writeback. Just wakeup the thread and it will
> > flush old data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
> Looks good. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thanks!
> BTW, don't we miss Christoph's Signed-off-by?
We do, he didn't include one.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 9:36 [PATCH 0/7] Post merge per-bdi writeback patches v2 Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 12:34 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-14 12:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-09-14 13:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] Assign bdi in super_block Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 13:02 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-14 18:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-09-14 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 10:14 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-15 10:22 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 13:16 ` Trond Myklebust
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 13:12 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 11:10 ` Minchan Kim
2009-09-14 11:11 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] writeback: inline allocation failure handling in bdi_alloc_queue_work() Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 13:13 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 13:33 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-14 13:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-14 19:28 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 19:42 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 9:08 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-15 9:14 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 11:44 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 12:58 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-15 13:04 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 13:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-15 13:17 ` Jens Axboe
2009-09-15 14:01 ` Jan Kara
2009-09-15 14:09 ` Chris Mason
2009-09-14 9:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy() Jens Axboe
2009-09-14 10:56 ` Jens Axboe
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