From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758008AbZIPNbi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:31:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751840AbZIPNbg (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:31:36 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:34179 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752099AbZIPNbg (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:31:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:31:39 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] writeback fixes and cleanups Message-ID: <20090916133138.GQ23126@kernel.dk> References: <20090915194955.GV23126@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090915194955.GV23126@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 15 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > This should conclude the major updates to the previous writeback > inclusion, and has a bunch of must have fixes from Nick as well. So I > think we should include this sooner rather than later, should also fix > Ingo's bug report. Linus, JFYI, the diffstat now looks like this: git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback Christoph Hellwig (1): writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE Jens Axboe (11): fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages writeback: make wb_writeback() take an argument structure fs: Assign bdi in super_block writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list writeback: inline allocation failure handling in bdi_alloc_queue_work() writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy() writeback: add comments to bdi_work structure writeback: use schedule_timeout_interruptible() Nick Piggin (4): writeback: remove smp_mb(), it's not needed with list_add_tail_rcu() writeback: improve scalability of bdi writeback work queues writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete() writeback: fix possible bdi writeback refcounting problem fs/afs/write.c | 1 - fs/block_dev.c | 1 - fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 1 + fs/btrfs/ordered-data.c | 1 - fs/fs-writeback.c | 345 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 + fs/inode.c | 4 +- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 1 - fs/nfs/super.c | 2 + fs/nfs/write.c | 1 - fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 4 +- fs/super.c | 6 + fs/sync.c | 9 +- fs/ubifs/budget.c | 20 +-- fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 + include/linux/backing-dev.h | 3 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- include/linux/writeback.h | 5 +- include/trace/events/ext4.h | 6 +- mm/backing-dev.c | 90 +++++++++--- mm/page-writeback.c | 22 +-- 21 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 263 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe