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>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:28:59 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110524032859.GA17429@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523092838.GA25829@localhost>
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:28:38PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:07:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Wu, Andrew,
> >
> > what's the plan for these for 2.6.40? We'll need to make some progress
> > in this area, and even if we can't get everything it we should make sure
> > to at least include the updated versions of those in -mm. But even
> > some of the later ones are pretty low risk.
>
> Yes, except for patch 14 which does not include external behavior
> changes besides the good full write chunk size for large files, the
> patches not in -mm are pretty trivial ones.
>
> Aside from my simple tests, Alex also helped going through the LKP
> tests with the patchset and find no writeback regressions.
I'll rearrange the series and move patch 14 to the end, so that the
patches come in order
- 10 (updated) patches in -mm
- 6 more trivial patches that is safe to go upstream after -rc1
- the current patch 14 and patch 16 (that depends on 14)
Thanks,
Fengguang
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 21:45 [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 01/18] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 02/18] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 03/18] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 04/18] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 05/18] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 06/18] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 07/18] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 08/18] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 09/18] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 10/18] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 11/18] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 12/18] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 13/18] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 14/18] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 22:06 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 23:29 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20 4:07 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20 6:52 ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20 7:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20 7:26 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 15/18] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 16/18] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 17/18] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 18/18] writeback: rearrange the wb_writeback() loop Wu Fengguang
2011-05-23 9:07 ` [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-23 9:28 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-24 3:28 ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-06-01 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-02 2:29 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-06-07 12:13 ` writeback merge status, was " Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-07 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-07 21:11 ` Wu Fengguang
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