From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o4M06vKH038106 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 19:06:58 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id EC005365512 for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail13.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.98]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 301Cqt3vzE1aqJsx for ; Fri, 21 May 2010 17:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:09:13 +1000 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] writeback: tracing and wbc->nr_to_write fixes Message-ID: <20100522000913.GZ8120@dastard> References: <1271731314-5893-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100521150504.GA4598@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100521150504.GA4598@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:05:04AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > What happened to this series? Getting the trace events in will > defintively help with tuning the writeback code, and we'll also need > the nr_to_write issue fixed some way. I've been snowed under trying to get several different things done all at the same time, so this has slipped. I'm trying to get back to it early next week. The nr_to_pages fix is badly needed, as that causes severe fragmentation in XFS for the exact workloads it fixes the severe fragmentation in ext4.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs