From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:04:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20110607160441.db475211.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20110607213236.634026193@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Kara , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , , LKML To: Wu Fengguang Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110607213236.634026193@intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:32:36 +0800 Wu Fengguang wrote: > > Andrew, > > Here are the intented patches for upstream submission, rebased to v3.0-rc2: > > [PATCH 01/15] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage > [PATCH 02/15] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock > [PATCH 03/15] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned > [PATCH 04/15] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written > [PATCH 05/15] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target > [PATCH 06/15] writeback: refill b_io iff empty > [PATCH 07/15] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock > [PATCH 08/15] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() > [PATCH 09/15] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time > [PATCH 10/15] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc > [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs > [PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io > [PATCH 13/15] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion > [PATCH 14/15] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode > [PATCH 15/15] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io Looks OK to me, although I think a few of the changelogs are lacking important details. > They are git pullable from > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback > Please ask Stephen to suck this into linux-next when ready.