linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] jbd2: wake up journal waiters in FIFO order, not LIFO

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Message-Id: <166450797716.256913.3257351603456798728.b4-ty@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:19:31 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, adilger@...ger.ca,
        artem.blagodarenko@...il.com, alexey.lyashkov@...il.com
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, anserper@...ru,
        ritesh.list@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd2: wake up journal waiters in FIFO order, not LIFO

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:01:37 +0300, Alexey Lyashkov wrote:
> From: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@...ru>
> 
> LIFO wakeup order is unfair and sometimes leads to a journal
> user not being able to get a journal handle for hundreds of
> transactions in a row.
> 
> FIFO wakeup can make things more fair.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] jbd2: wake up journal waiters in FIFO order, not LIFO
      commit: 2bf6739025dcfca3a24fbc73b8f2dbd979c0e4c9

Best regards,
-- 
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>