From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E28736B0087 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:44:55 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20101110023500.404859581@intel.com> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:00 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: [PATCH 0/5] writeback livelock fixes v2 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner , Christoph Hellwig , Jan Engelhardt , Wu Fengguang , LKML List-ID: Andrew, Here are the writeback livelock fixes (patch 3, 4) from Jan Kara. changes from v1: - collect the various changelog and comment changes from email discussions [PATCH 1/5] writeback: integrated background writeback work [PATCH 2/5] writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works [PATCH 4/5] writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback [PATCH 5/5] writeback: check skipped pages on WB_SYNC_ALL fs/fs-writeback.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org