Re: [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5)

Andrew Morton
2011-06-07T23:05:49Z

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:32:36 +0800
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:

>
> Andrew,
>
> Here are the intented patches for upstream submission, rebased to v3.0-rc2:
>
> [PATCH 01/15] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage
> [PATCH 02/15] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock
> [PATCH 03/15] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned
> [PATCH 04/15] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written
> [PATCH 05/15] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target
> [PATCH 06/15] writeback: refill b_io iff empty
> [PATCH 07/15] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock
> [PATCH 08/15] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback()
> [PATCH 09/15] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time
> [PATCH 10/15] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc
> [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs
> [PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io
> [PATCH 13/15] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion
> [PATCH 14/15] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode
> [PATCH 15/15] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io

Looks OK to me, although I think a few of the changelogs are lacking
important details.

> They are git pullable from
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback
>

Please ask Stephen to suck this into linux-next when ready.