From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p22E9ZUH023516 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:09:37 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 4A338157B7F6 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 06:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [18.85.46.34]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id 8o5Q2tiaIb1HkvCq for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:12:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 09:12:20 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfs: kick inode writeback when low on memory Message-ID: <20110302141220.GA4363@infradead.org> References: <1298412969-14389-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1298412969-14389-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20110302030602.GD4905@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110302030602.GD4905@dastard> 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: Dave Chinner Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs