linux-kernel - [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5)

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Message-Id: <20110607213236.634026193@intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:32:36 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5)


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

 fs/block_dev.c                   |   16 ++-
 fs/ext4/inode.c                  |    4 +-
 fs/fs-writeback.c                |  219 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 fs/inode.c                       |    5 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c                   |    3 +-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c      |    2 +-
 include/linux/backing-dev.h      |    2 +
 include/linux/writeback.h        |   10 +--
 include/trace/events/btrfs.h     |    6 +-
 include/trace/events/ext4.h      |    6 +-
 include/trace/events/writeback.h |  100 +++++++++++++++++-
 mm/backing-dev.c                 |   21 +++-
 mm/filemap.c                     |    6 +-
 mm/page-writeback.c              |   25 +++--
 mm/rmap.c                        |    4 +-
 15 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)

They are git pullable from

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback

Thanks to Jan and Dave for the careful reviews!

Thanks,
Fengguang


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