Re: [PATCH 0/6] Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads

Trond Myklebust
2010-01-06T22:03:29Z

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:44 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 06-01-10 15:51:10, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > Peter Zijlstra (1):
> > VM: Split out the accounting of unstable writes from BDI_RECLAIMABLE
> >
> > Trond Myklebust (5):
> > NFS: Run COMMIT as an asynchronous RPC call when wbc->for_background is set
> > VM: Use per-bdi unstable accounting to improve use of wbc->force_commit
> > VM: Don't call bdi_stat(BDI_UNSTABLE) on non-nfs backing-devices
> > VM/NFS: The VM must tell the filesystem when to free reclaimable pages
> > VFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() commits unstable writes
> I think the series would be nicer if you made Peter's patch #2 and join
> your patches
> "VM/NFS: The VM must tell the filesystem when to free reclaimable pages"
> and
> "VM: Use per-bdi unstable accounting to improve use of wbc->force_commit"
>
> Honza

Indeed, and if everyone is OK with Peter's patch, I'll do that.

Cheers
Trond