From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: [PATCH 0/7] more writeback patches for 3.1 Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:01:08 +0800 Message-ID: <20110619150108.691351746@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton To: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:22966 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754243Ab1FSP1v (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:27:51 -0400 Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, These patches are mainly seperated out from the original IO-less writeback patchset. They are general useful as standalone improvements. This series is based on the write bandwidth patches posted at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/12/69 They'll appear in this git branch after a while, and be posted in one single series for the next version. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback cleanups [PATCH 1/7] writeback: consolidate variable names in balance_dirty_pages() [PATCH 2/7] writeback: add parameters to __bdi_update_bandwidth() dirty limits [PATCH 3/7] writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit [PATCH 4/7] writeback: introduce max-pause and pass-good dirty limits write chunk size [PATCH 5/7] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight [PATCH 6/7] writeback: scale IO chunk size up to half device bandwidth dirty exceeded state [PATCH 7/7] writeback: timestamp based bdi dirty_exceeded state Thanks, Fengguang