From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF)
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:26:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110419142640.GB26482@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110408015841.GV31057@dastard>
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:58:41AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:10:17PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed 06-04-11 12:08:05, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:37:15AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Well, I wouldn't bother too much with kswapd handling. MM people plan to
> > get rid of writeback from direct reclaim and just remove the dirty page
> > from LRU and recycle it once flusher thread writes it...
>
> kswapd is not in the direct reclaim path - it's the background
> memory reclaim path. Writeback from direct reclaim is a problem
> because of stack usage, and that problem doesn't exist for kswapd.
FYI the IO initiated from pageout() in kswapd/direct reclaim can
mostly be transfered to the flushers.
Here is the early RFC patch, and I'll submit an update soon.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg09199.html
Thanks,
Fengguang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 14:26 UTC|newest]
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2011-03-29 5:14 ` [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF Amir Goldstein
2011-03-29 11:16 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-29 11:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-29 12:17 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-29 13:09 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-03-29 13:12 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-29 13:38 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-29 17:20 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 17:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 18:10 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 18:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 19:13 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 19:57 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 19:59 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-29 20:12 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-29 20:23 ` Mike Snitzer
2011-03-29 23:09 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-30 5:58 ` [Lsf] " Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 14:02 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 14:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 14:26 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 14:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2011-03-30 15:33 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-30 15:46 ` Shyam_Iyer
2011-03-30 20:32 ` Giridhar Malavali
2011-03-30 20:45 ` James Bottomley
2011-03-29 19:47 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-03-29 20:29 ` Jan Kara
2011-03-29 20:31 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-30 0:33 ` Mingming Cao
2011-03-30 2:17 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 11:13 ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-30 11:28 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-30 14:07 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01 15:19 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-01 16:30 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-04-01 21:46 ` Joel Becker
2011-04-02 3:26 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-04-01 21:43 ` Joel Becker
2011-03-30 21:49 ` Mingming Cao
2011-03-31 0:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2011-03-31 1:00 ` Joel Becker
2011-04-01 21:34 ` Mingming Cao
2011-04-01 21:49 ` Joel Becker
2011-03-29 17:35 ` Chad Talbott
2011-03-29 19:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-29 20:14 ` Chad Talbott
2011-03-29 20:35 ` Jan Kara
2011-03-29 21:08 ` Greg Thelen
2011-03-30 4:18 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 15:37 ` IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: [Lsf] Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Vivek Goyal
2011-03-30 22:20 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-30 22:49 ` Chad Talbott
2011-03-31 3:00 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-31 14:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 14:34 ` Chris Mason
2011-03-31 22:14 ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-31 23:43 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01 0:55 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 1:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01 4:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 6:32 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: " Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-01 7:23 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 12:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-21 15:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01 14:49 ` IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: [Lsf] " Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 22:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-03-31 14:50 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: " Greg Thelen
2011-03-31 22:27 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-01 17:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-01 21:49 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-02 7:33 ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-02 7:34 ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-05 13:13 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-05 22:56 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 14:49 ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-06 15:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 19:49 ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-06 23:07 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback Greg Thelen
2011-04-06 23:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 19:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 20:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-07 21:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 23:42 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-08 0:59 ` Greg Thelen
2011-04-08 1:25 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-12 3:17 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-04-08 13:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 23:08 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 20:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-07 23:47 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-08 13:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-11 1:05 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-06 15:37 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 16:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-06 17:10 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-06 17:14 ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-04-08 1:58 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:26 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-04-06 23:50 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-07 17:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-11 1:36 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-15 21:07 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-16 3:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-18 21:58 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-18 22:51 ` cgroup IO throttling and filesystem ordered mode (Was: Re: [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF)) Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 0:33 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 14:45 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-19 17:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 18:30 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-21 0:32 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-21 0:29 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-19 14:17 ` [Lsf] IO less throttling and cgroup aware writeback (Was: Re: Preliminary Agenda and Activities for LSF) Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 14:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 14:48 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-19 15:11 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 15:22 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 15:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 16:58 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19 17:05 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-19 20:58 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20 1:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 10:56 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20 11:19 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 14:42 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-20 1:16 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 18:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-20 19:16 ` Jan Kara
2011-04-21 0:17 ` Dave Chinner
2011-04-21 15:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-21 15:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-21 17:20 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22 4:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-22 15:25 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-22 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-04-25 18:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-26 14:37 ` Vivek Goyal
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