From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
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Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
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Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:44:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAB26F6.40407@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110417093048.GA4027@localhost>
Il 17/04/2011 11:30, Wu Fengguang ha scritto:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:31:54PM +0800, Marco Stornelli wrote:
>> Il 16/04/2011 15:25, Wu Fengguang ha scritto:
>>> Andrew,
>>>
>>> This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes.
>>> Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have
>>> easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08.
>>>
>>> In response to the complexity complaints, an introduction document is
>>> written explaining the rationals, algorithm and visual case studies:
>>>
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wfg/writeback/slides/smooth-dirty-throttling.pdf
>>
>> It'd be great if you wrote a summary in the kernel documentation.
>
> Perhaps not in this stage. That will only frighten people away I'm
> afraid. The main concerns now are "why the complexities?". People at
> this time perhaps won't bother looking into any lengthy documents at
> all.
>
For the moment ok if you think we are in a not-ready-for-mainline yet.
But for the final version the documentation would be welcome, maybe with
the pdf as reference. The documentation is always the last thing but
it's important! :)
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-17 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-16 13:25 [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7 Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 01/12] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated written pages Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 02/12] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 03/12] writeback: bdi write bandwidth estimation Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 04/12] writeback: smoothed global/bdi dirty pages Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 05/12] writeback: smoothed dirty threshold and limit Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 06/12] writeback: enforce 1/4 gap between the dirty/background thresholds Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 07/12] writeback: base throttle bandwidth and position ratio Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 08/12] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 09/12] writeback: show bdi write bandwidth in debugfs Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 10/12] writeback: trace dirty_ratelimit Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 11/12] writeback: trace balance_dirty_pages Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 13:25 ` [PATCH 12/12] writeback: trace global_dirty_state Wu Fengguang
2011-04-16 16:27 ` [PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7 Sedat Dilek
2011-04-17 1:44 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-17 3:18 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-17 4:10 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-17 4:46 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-17 6:46 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-18 0:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-18 6:57 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-18 8:18 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-18 10:22 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-04-17 7:31 ` Marco Stornelli
2011-04-17 9:30 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-17 17:44 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
2011-04-17 23:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-04-26 17:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-04-28 14:27 ` Wu Fengguang
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