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From: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug()
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:16:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150918131615.GI8624@ret.masoncoding.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw3Y51ZtaPK=r1dp66hDsGmc-dFz9wf-gYMGi5B0FP4KQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 11:04:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, makes sense - the plug is not being flushed as we switch away,
> > but Chris' patch makes it do that.
> 
> Yup.

Huh, that does make much more sense, thanks Linus.  I'm wondering where
else I've assumed that cond_resched() unplugged.

> 
> And I actually think Chris' patch is better than the one I sent out
> (but maybe the scheduler people should take a look at the behavior of
> cond_resched()), I just wanted you to test that to verify the
> behavior.

Ok, I'll fix up the description and comments and send out.

-chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-18 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-11 19:37 [PATCH] fs-writeback: drop wb->list_lock during blk_finish_plug() Chris Mason
2015-09-11 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 20:37   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 20:40     ` Josef Bacik
2015-09-11 21:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 22:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-11 23:16           ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12  0:52               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12  2:15                 ` Chris Mason
2015-09-12  2:27                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12 23:00               ` Chris Mason
2015-09-12 23:29                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-12 23:46                   ` Chris Mason
2015-09-13 13:12                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-13 22:56                       ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-13 23:12                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-14 20:06                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-16 15:16                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-16 19:58                       ` Jan Kara
2015-09-16 20:00                         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-16 22:07                           ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17  0:37                             ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17  1:12                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17  2:14                                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 19:39                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17 22:42                                     ` Chris Mason
2015-09-17 23:08                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17 23:56                                         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-18  0:37                                           ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-18  1:50                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18  5:40                                               ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-18  6:04                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18  6:06                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18 14:21                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-09-18 13:16                                                   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2015-09-18 14:23                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-09-18 15:32                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-18 15:59                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-18 16:02                                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-18 16:12                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-28 14:47                                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-28 16:08                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-29  7:55                                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-18 22:17                                                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-21  9:24                                                     ` Jan Kara
2015-09-21 20:21                                                       ` Andrew Morton
2015-09-17 23:03                                   ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 23:13                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-09-17  3:48                               ` Chris Mason
2015-09-17  4:30                                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-17 12:13                                   ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:06         ` Chris Mason
2015-09-11 23:13           ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-09-09 15:23 Chris Mason
2015-09-11 18:49 ` Jens Axboe

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