From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760440Ab0HEQ3N (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:29:13 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:11532 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760304Ab0HEQ3H (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:29:07 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,323,1278313200"; d="scan'208";a="825048607" Message-Id: <20100805161051.501816677@intel.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:10:51 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang To: Andrew Morton Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML CC: Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , Chris Mason , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Peter Zijlstra , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" Subject: [PATCH 00/13] writeback patches for 2.6.36 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew, These are writeback patches intended for 2.6.36. It's combined from 2 previous patchsets: writeback cleanups and trivial fixes writeback: try to write older pages first changelog: - removed patch "writeback: take account of NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP in balance_dirty_pages()" - added patch "writeback: explicit low bound for vm.dirty_ratio" - use "if (list_empty(&wb->b_io))" directly in "writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback" - fix misplaced chunk for removing more_io in include/trace/events/ext4.h - update comments in "writeback: fix queue_io() ordering" - update comments in "writeback: add comment to the dirty limits functions" - patch "writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written" will no longer livelock sync() with Jan's sync() livelock avoidance patches [PATCH 01/13] writeback: reduce calls to global_page_state in balance_dirty_pages() [PATCH 02/13] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds [PATCH 03/13] writeback: add comment to the dirty limits functions [PATCH 04/13] writeback: dont redirty tail an inode with dirty pages [PATCH 05/13] writeback: fix queue_io() ordering [PATCH 06/13] writeback: merge for_kupdate and !for_kupdate cases [PATCH 07/13] writeback: explicit low bound for vm.dirty_ratio [PATCH 08/13] writeback: pass writeback_control down to move_expired_inodes() [PATCH 09/13] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target [PATCH 10/13] writeback: kill writeback_control.more_io [PATCH 11/13] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback [PATCH 12/13] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written [PATCH 13/13] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_written Thanks, Fengguang