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

Jens Axboe
2009-05-27T12:47:28Z

On Wed, May 27 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Wed, May 27 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> There's definitely overlap! The timer is gone with my patches and so is
>> pdflush. For an idle (idle here meaning no background writeback
>> activity) system, there should just be bdi-default running. And that
>> will wake up every dirty_writeback_interval by default.
>
> Hmm, right. Will be working on top of your patches then.

That would be great, I would have no problem integrating such a feature.
It definitely makes sense.

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Jens Axboe