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

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2011 08:21:52 +0200
From:	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...glemail.com>
To:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5)

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:04:41AM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:32:36 +0800
>> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.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.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> > 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.
>
> OK, now it includes the updated patches. It's based on v3.0-rc2 and
> also compile/runs OK with 3.0.0-rc2-next-20110607.
>

So, did I a few hours ago... Running a kernel with your patchset
applied right now.

- Sedat -

> Stephen, would you help add this git branch to linux-next? Thank you.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git#fs-writeback
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
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