From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] writeback: tracing and wbc->nr_to_write fixes Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:09:13 +1000 Message-ID: <20100522000913.GZ8120@dastard> References: <1271731314-5893-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100521150504.GA4598@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100521150504.GA4598@infradead.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:05:04AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > What happened to this series? Getting the trace events in will > defintively help with tuning the writeback code, and we'll also need > the nr_to_write issue fixed some way. I've been snowed under trying to get several different things done all at the same time, so this has slipped. I'm trying to get back to it early next week. The nr_to_pages fix is badly needed, as that causes severe fragmentation in XFS for the exact workloads it fixes the severe fragmentation in ext4.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com