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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] writeback: Improve busyloop prevention
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:39:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111020133938.GA18058@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111020123300.GA12317@localhost>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:33:00PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:09:09PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > Jan,
> > 
> > I tried the below combined patch over the ioless one, and find some
> > minor regressions. I studied the thresh=1G/ext3-1dd case in particular
> > and find that nr_writeback and the iostat avgrq-sz drops from time to time.
> > 
> > I'll try to bisect the changeset.

This is interesting, the culprit is found to be patch 1, which is
simply
                if (work->for_kupdate) {
                        oldest_jif = jiffies -
                                msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10);
-                       work->older_than_this = &oldest_jif;
-               }
+               } else if (work->for_background)
+                       oldest_jif = jiffies;

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-12 20:57 [PATCH 0/2 v4] writeback: Improve busyloop prevention and inode requeueing Jan Kara
2011-10-12 20:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] writeback: Improve busyloop prevention Jan Kara
2011-10-13 14:26   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-13 20:13     ` Jan Kara
2011-10-14  7:18       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-14 19:31         ` Chris Mason
     [not found]     ` <20111013143939.GA9691@localhost>
2011-10-13 20:18       ` Jan Kara
2011-10-14 16:00         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-14 16:28           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-18  0:51             ` Jan Kara
2011-10-18 14:35               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-19 11:56                 ` Jan Kara
2011-10-19 13:25                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-19 13:30                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-19 13:35                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-20 12:09                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-20 12:33                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-20 13:39                       ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-10-20 22:26                         ` Jan Kara
2011-10-22  4:20                           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-24 15:45                             ` Jan Kara
     [not found]                           ` <20111027063133.GA10146@localhost>
2011-10-27 20:31                             ` Jan Kara
     [not found]                               ` <20111101134231.GA31718@localhost>
2011-11-01 21:53                                 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-02 17:25                                   ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]                               ` <20111102185603.GA4034@localhost>
2011-11-03  1:51                                 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-03 14:52                                   ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]                                   ` <20111104152054.GA11577@localhost>
2011-11-08 23:52                                     ` Jan Kara
2011-11-09 13:51                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-11-10 14:50                                       ` Jan Kara
2011-12-05  8:02                                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-12-07 10:13                                           ` Jan Kara
2011-12-07 11:45                                             ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]                           ` <20111027064745.GA14017@localhost>
2011-10-27 20:50                             ` Jan Kara
2011-10-20  9:46               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-10-20 15:32                 ` Jan Kara
2011-10-15 12:41           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-12 20:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] writeback: Replace some redirty_tail() calls with requeue_io() Jan Kara
2011-10-13 14:30   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-10-13 14:15 ` [PATCH 0/2 v4] writeback: Improve busyloop prevention and inode requeueing Wu Fengguang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-08  0:44 [PATCH 1/2] writeback: Improve busyloop prevention Jan Kara
2011-09-08  0:57 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-08 13:49   ` Jan Kara

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