From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: [PATCH 0/5] Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:41:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20100107144137.17158.53673.stgit@localhost.localdomain> References: <20100107143735.GA20300@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Jan Kara , Steve Rago , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" , "jens.axboe" , Peter Staubach , Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" To: Wu Fengguang Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:17898 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752342Ab0AGOoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:44:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100107143735.GA20300@localhost> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Take 3. Incorporate Fengguang's suggestion that we change the name of the force_commit flag. Cheers Trond --- Peter Zijlstra (1): VM: Split out the accounting of unstable writes from BDI_RECLAIMABLE Trond Myklebust (4): NFS: Run COMMIT as an asynchronous RPC call when wbc->for_background is set VM/NFS: The VM must tell the filesystem when to free reclaimable pages VM: Don't call bdi_stat(BDI_UNSTABLE) on non-nfs backing-devices VFS: Ensure that writeback_single_inode() commits unstable writes fs/fs-writeback.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/nfs/client.c | 1 + fs/nfs/file.c | 1 + fs/nfs/inode.c | 16 ---------------- fs/nfs/internal.h | 3 ++- fs/nfs/super.c | 2 -- fs/nfs/write.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 9 ++++++++- include/linux/fs.h | 9 +++++++++ include/linux/writeback.h | 5 +++++ mm/backing-dev.c | 6 ++++-- mm/filemap.c | 2 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/truncate.c | 2 +- 14 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)