From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: [PATCH 0/6] writeback: moving expire targets for background/kupdate works Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:00:03 +0800 Message-ID: <20110419030003.108796967@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara , Mel Gorman To: Andrew Morton Return-path: cc: Dave Chinner cc: Trond Myklebust cc: Itaru Kitayama CC: Minchan Kim Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML cc: , Linux Memory Management List Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Andrew, This aims to reduce possible pageout() calls by making the flusher concentrate a bit more on old/expired dirty inodes. Patches 04, 05 have been updated since last post, please review. The concerns from last review have been addressed. It runs fine on simple workloads over ext3/4, xfs, btrfs and NFS. Trond, will you take the last patch? The fixed "bug" has no real impact for now. make dirty expire time a moving target [PATCH 1/6] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() [PATCH 2/6] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target [PATCH 3/6] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback loop condition fixes (the most tricky part) [PATCH 4/6] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned [PATCH 5/6] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written NFS fix [PATCH 6/6] NFS: return -EAGAIN when skipped commit in nfs_commit_unstable_pages() Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org