From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 18:49:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110516104947.GA5902@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110516104339.GB18520@infradead.org>
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:43:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Isn't this a fix that should go to Linus ASAP independent of the rest
> of this series to fix tmpfs?
Ah sorry for the confusing changelog: it's not a bug fix patch because
the impacted balance_dirty_pages trace point is not upstream yet.
I'll remove that "NULL dereference bug" from the changelog.
Thanks,
Fengguang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-16 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-12 13:57 [PATCH 00/17] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v2) Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 01/17] writeback: introduce .tagged_sync for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 22:40 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 2:56 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-13 10:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-15 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-16 5:39 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:17 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 02/17] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 22:42 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 3:08 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:31 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-23 13:14 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-24 3:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 03/17] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 22:44 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 3:36 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-15 23:50 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-16 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-16 11:14 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 04/17] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 05/17] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 06/17] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 22:55 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-16 13:00 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 07/17] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 08/17] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 09/17] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 10/17] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 11/17] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 12/17] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
2011-05-16 10:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-16 10:49 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 13/17] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 14:25 ` Minchan Kim
2011-05-12 23:04 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 5:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-15 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 14/17] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 14:56 ` Jan Kara
2011-05-12 23:18 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 5:28 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-16 0:12 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-16 12:05 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 15/17] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 16/17] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 23:20 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-13 5:37 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-16 0:14 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-16 12:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-12 13:57 ` [PATCH 17/17] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io Wu Fengguang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-06 3:08 [PATCH 00/17] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 Wu Fengguang
2011-05-06 3:08 ` [PATCH 12/17] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
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