From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
david@fromorbit.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 RFC v3] Livelock avoidance for data integrity writeback
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 11:14:47 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100605011447.GF26335@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1275677231-15662-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:47:09PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've revived my patches to implement livelock avoidance for data integrity
> writes. Due to some concerns whether tagging of pages before writeout cannot
> be too costly to use for WB_SYNC_NONE mode (where we stop after nr_to_write
> pages) I've changed the patch to use page tagging only in WB_SYNC_ALL mode
> where we are sure that we write out all the tagged pages. Later, we can think
> about using tagging for livelock avoidance for WB_SYNC_NONE mode as well...
Hmm what concerns? Do you have any numbers?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-05 1:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-04 18:47 [PATCH 0/2 RFC v3] Livelock avoidance for data integrity writeback Jan Kara
2010-06-04 18:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] radix-tree: Implement function radix_tree_gang_tag_if_tagged Jan Kara
2010-06-04 18:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: Implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging Jan Kara
2010-06-05 1:38 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-07 16:09 ` Jan Kara
2010-06-08 5:29 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-09 13:04 ` Jan Kara
2010-06-10 8:12 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-12 18:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-08-12 22:28 ` Jan Kara
2010-08-13 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-05 1:14 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-06-06 4:08 ` [PATCH 0/2 RFC v3] Livelock avoidance for data integrity writeback Wu Fengguang
2010-06-06 7:52 ` Nick Piggin
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2010-06-04 18:40 Jan Kara
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