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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfs: kick inode writeback when low on memory
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:12:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110302141220.GA4363@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110302030602.GD4905@dastard>

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 02:06:02PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> I'm open to ideas here - I could convert the bdi flusher
> infrastructure to cmwqs rather than using worker threads, or move
> all dirty inode tracking and writeback into XFS, or ???

Tejun posted patches to convert the writeback threads to workqueues.
But I think sooner or later we should stop using VFS dirty state for
metadata.  By allowing the dirty_inode operation to return a value
and say it shouldn't be marked dirty that could be done relatively
easily.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-02 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 22:16 [RFC, PATCH 0/5] xfs: Reduce OOM kill problems under heavy load Dave Chinner
2011-02-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/5] xfs: introduce inode cluster buffer trylocks for xfs_iflush Dave Chinner
2011-03-03 15:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-03 22:04     ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfs: introduce a xfssyncd workqueue Dave Chinner
2011-02-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfs: convert ENOSPC inode flushing to use new syncd workqueue Dave Chinner
2011-03-03 15:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-03 22:41     ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-04 12:40       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-02-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: introduce background inode reclaim work Dave Chinner
2011-03-03 15:36   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-03 22:43     ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfs: kick inode writeback when low on memory Dave Chinner
2011-03-02  3:06   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-02 14:12     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-03  2:42       ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-03 15:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-03 16:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-09  5:46             ` Dave Chinner

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