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 p73M3lRD216849 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:03:47 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1ECAFF3D97B for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id AtWOiXmdp4Ti0viY for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 18:03:44 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: Call filemap_flush_range() for async xfs_flush_pages() call Message-ID: <20110803220344.GA9435@infradead.org> References: <1312404545-15400-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1312404545-15400-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1312404545-15400-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> 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: Jan Kara Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:49:05PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > XFS does its own data writeout from several places using xfs_flush_pages(). > When this writeout is racing with flusher thread writing the same inode the > performance gets bad because flusher thread submits writes as normal WRITE > commands while xfs_flush_pages() submits them as WRITE_SYNC (as it uses Oh, I think you really want commit xfs: improve sync behaviour in the face of aggressive dirtying for your vendor tree. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs