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Message-ID: <20130321113252.GA30777@quack.suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:32:52 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	axboe@...nel.dk, laijs@...fujitsu.com, fengguang.wu@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmoyer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] writeback: replace custom worker pool
 implementation with unbound workqueue

On Wed 20-03-13 22:07:18, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Dave.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:57:21PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > When you have a system that has 50+ active filesystems (pretty
> > common in the distributed storage environments were every disk has
> > it's own filesystem), knowing which filesystem(s) are getting stuck
> > in writeback from the sysrq-w or hangcheck output is pretty damn
> > important....
> 
> Hmm... I guess, then, what we can do is adding a worker description
> which is printed out with task dump.  ie. A work function can call
> work_set_desc(fmt, arg....).  It won't be expensive and can be
> implemented relatively easily.  Does that sound good enough?
  Yeah, that sounds good! Thanks!

							Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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