From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] writeback: simplify the write back thread queue
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:56:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1F1B33.5050705@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621074903.GA28042@lst.de>
On 2010-06-21 09:49, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> I'm fine with this, we can always bring back support for > 1 writeback
>> thread per bdi when the need arises.
>
> Note that this patch should actually make an eventual implementation
> of > 1 writeback thread simpler if we want to go there - removing the
> item from the list early means there is no need to deal with any kind of
> race avoidance.
Yes, I suspect we'll need to drive it differently than it was setup for,
so no complaints on that side.
What are the patches against? They don't apply on top of my for-2.6.36
branch that has the other wb bits.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-21 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-19 21:07 [PATCH 1/3] writeback: simplify the write back thread queue Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-20 8:40 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-06-20 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 7:47 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-21 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 7:56 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2010-06-21 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
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