Re: [PATCH 00/19] periodic write-back timer optimization

Artem Bityutskiy
2009-05-27T12:28:32Z

ext Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the second attempt. The first one was here:
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=124301072305588&w=2
>> It was very hacky and got no comments.
>
> How does this relate to the per-BDI writeback patches that
> Jens is working on? Doesn't that require a completely different
> (probably simpler) implementation of your patch?

At a quick glance, our works do not intersect. He seems
to be changing the guts of write-back, while I only touch
the timer which wakes up the periodic write-back thread,
nothing else. I'll try to take Jens' patches and see.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)