* [LSF/VM TOPIC] Writeback code cleanup & improvements
@ 2010-02-24 14:26 Jan Kara
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From: Jan Kara @ 2010-02-24 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: lsf10-pc; +Cc: linux-fsdevel
Hi,
here's one suggestion for discussion at LSF/VM summit:
It seems to me that the current writeback code has outlived it's days. The
code is rather complex as various tweaks accumulated over years,
filesystems workaround MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES limitation to get better
performance, inode writeback is suboptimal for filesystems doing delayed
allocation (we end up writing inodes twice), sync writeback is (at least in
theory) livelockable. So I think it would be worthwhile to sit down and
get to some agreement on how do we improve this situation.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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