From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756504AbZFCLO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:14:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753237AbZFCLOU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:14:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.122.230]:24607 "EHLO mgw-mx03.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752176AbZFCLOT (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:14:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4A265AF7.5000101@nokia.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:13:59 +0300 From: Artem Bityutskiy Reply-To: Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com Organization: Nokia OYJ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" CC: Arnd Bergmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] periodic write-back timer optimization References: <20090527130503.4913.62042.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <200905271323.29818.arnd@arndb.de> <4A1D31BA.6060903@nokia.com> <20090527123320.GF11363@kernel.dk> <4A1D3418.8060909@nokia.com> <20090527124719.GH11363@kernel.dk> <4A1E307B.1060807@nokia.com> <20090528081845.GU11363@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20090528081845.GU11363@kernel.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Jun 2009 11:14:05.0010 (UTC) FILETIME=[67F5C320:01C9E43C] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 28 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: >> Jens Axboe wrote: >>> That would be great, I would have no problem integrating such a feature. >>> It definitely makes sense. >> Hi Al, Christoph, >> >> unless you have objections against the whole idea, I wonder if >> it would be possible to make the patches which wrap sb->s_dirt >> usage go via VFS tree first, and then I'd continue the timer >> optimization work separately. IMO, wrapping s_dirt makes sense >> in general. I mean, patches 01-17 from this series. > > That makese sense, those are totally separate from the actual > functionality. Reminding ping. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)