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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Mel Gorman <mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Itaru Kitayama <kitayama@cl.bb4u.ne.jp>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes()
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:04:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504110430.GA4646@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420080917.759855316@intel.com>

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:03:37PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> No behavior change. This will add debug visibility to the code, for
> example, to dump the wbc contents when kprobing queue_io().

I don't think it's a good idea.  The writeback_control should move
back to just controlling per-inode writeback and not be passed to
more routines dealing with high-level writeback.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-20  8:03 [PATCH 0/6] writeback: moving expire targets for background/kupdate works v2 Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04 11:04   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-04 11:13     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04 11:05   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-04 11:11     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04 11:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-04 11:32         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20 23:40   ` Andrew Morton
2011-04-21  1:14     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-21  1:21       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-24  3:15     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26 12:17       ` Jan Kara
2011-04-26 13:51         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26 13:59           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26 14:05           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-27 11:15           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-20  8:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Wu Fengguang
2011-05-04  7:39   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-05 16:37     ` Jan Kara
2011-05-05 16:47       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-06  5:29       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-06  8:42         ` [RFC][PATCH] writeback: limit number of moved inodes in queue_io() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-06 10:06           ` [RFC][PATCH v2] " Wu Fengguang
2011-05-06 23:06             ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-06 14:21         ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Jan Kara
2011-05-10  4:31           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-10  4:53             ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-19  3:00 [PATCH 0/6] writeback: moving expire targets for background/kupdate works Wu Fengguang
2011-04-19  3:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() Wu Fengguang
2010-07-22  5:09 [PATCH 0/6] [RFC] writeback: try to write older pages first Wu Fengguang
2010-07-22  5:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() Wu Fengguang
2010-07-23 18:16   ` Jan Kara
2010-07-26 10:44   ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-01 15:23   ` Minchan Kim

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