From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: [PATCH 00/13] writeback patches for 2.6.36 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:10:51 +0800 Message-ID: <20100805161051.501816677@intel.com> Return-path: Received: from kanga.kvack.org ([205.233.56.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oh3Jl-0002rR-Gj for glkm-linux-mm-2@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:29:17 +0200 Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C68A76B02A7 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , Chris Mason , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Peter Zijlstra , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-Id: linux-mm.kvack.org Andrew, These are writeback patches intended for 2.6.36. It's combined from 2 previous patchsets: writeback cleanups and trivial fixes writeback: try to write older pages first changelog: - removed patch "writeback: take account of NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages()" - added patch "writeback: explicit low bound for vm.dirty_ratio" - use "if (list_empty(&wb->b_io))" directly in "writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback" - fix misplaced chunk for removing more_io in include/trace/events/ext4.h - update comments in "writeback: fix queue_io() ordering" - update comments in "writeback: add comment to the dirty limits functions" - patch "writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written" will no longer livelock sync() with Jan's sync() livelock avoidance patches [PATCH 01/13] writeback: reduce calls to global_page_state in balance_dirty_pages() [PATCH 02/13] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds [PATCH 03/13] writeback: add comment to the dirty limits functions [PATCH 04/13] writeback: dont redirty tail an inode with dirty pages [PATCH 05/13] writeback: fix queue_io() ordering [PATCH 06/13] writeback: merge for_kupdate and !for_kupdate cases [PATCH 07/13] writeback: explicit low bound for vm.dirty_ratio [PATCH 08/13] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() [PATCH 09/13] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target [PATCH 10/13] writeback: kill writeback_control.more_io [PATCH 11/13] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback [PATCH 12/13] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written [PATCH 13/13] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_written Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org