linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET block/for-next] writeback: prepare for cgroup writeback support

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:13:11 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET block/for-next] writeback: prepare for cgroup
 writeback support

On Tue 18-11-14 03:37:18, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patchset contains the following 10 prepatory patches for cgroup
> writeback support.  None of these patches introduces behavior changes.
> 
>  0001-writeback-move-backing_dev_info-state-into-bdi_write.patch
>  0002-writeback-move-backing_dev_info-bdi_stat-into-bdi_wr.patch
>  0003-writeback-move-bandwidth-related-fields-from-backing.patch
>  0004-writeback-move-backing_dev_info-wb_lock-and-worklist.patch
>  0005-writeback-move-lingering-dirty-IO-lists-transfer-fro.patch
>  0006-writeback-reorganize-mm-backing-dev.c.patch
>  0007-writeback-separate-out-include-linux-backing-dev-def.patch
>  0008-writeback-cosmetic-change-in-account_page_dirtied.patch
>  0009-writeback-add-gfp-to-wb_init.patch
>  0010-writeback-move-inode_to_bdi-to-include-linux-backing.patch
> 
> 0001-0005 move writeback related fields from bdi (backing_dev_info) to
> wb (bdi_writeback).  Currently, one bdi embeds one wb and the
> separation between the two is blurry.  bdi's lock protects wb's fields
> and fields which are closely related are scattered across the two.
> These five patches move all fields which are used during writeback
> into wb.
> 
> 0006-0010 are misc prep patches.  They're all rather trivial and each
> is self-explanatory.
> 
> This patchset is on top of the current block/for-next eb494facbee2
> ("5748c0fce0fd40c87d164d6bee61") and is available in the following git
> branch.
  I have no problem with these patches in principle (I'll check individual
patches in detail) but do you have some higher level design where exactly
are you going?

								Honza

PS: I've added CC to linux-fsdevel since there's high chance people miss
these patches in lkml...

>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git review-cgroup-writeback-wb-prep
> 
> diffstat follows.  Thanks.
> 
>  block/blk-core.c                 |    1 
>  block/blk-integrity.c            |    1 
>  block/blk-sysfs.c                |    1 
>  block/bounce.c                   |    1 
>  block/genhd.c                    |    1 
>  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h    |    1 
>  drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c   |   10 -
>  drivers/block/pktcdvd.c          |    1 
>  drivers/char/raw.c               |    1 
>  drivers/md/bcache/request.c      |    1 
>  drivers/md/dm.c                  |    2 
>  drivers/md/dm.h                  |    1 
>  drivers/md/md.h                  |    1 
>  drivers/md/raid1.c               |    4 
>  drivers/md/raid10.c              |    2 
>  drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c  |    1 
>  fs/block_dev.c                   |    1 
>  fs/ext4/extents.c                |    1 
>  fs/ext4/mballoc.c                |    1 
>  fs/f2fs/node.c                   |    2 
>  fs/f2fs/segment.h                |    1 
>  fs/fs-writeback.c                |  121 ++++++---------
>  fs/fuse/file.c                   |   12 -
>  fs/gfs2/super.c                  |    2 
>  fs/hfs/super.c                   |    1 
>  fs/hfsplus/super.c               |    1 
>  fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c   |    5 
>  fs/nfs/write.c                   |   11 -
>  fs/reiserfs/super.c              |    1 
>  fs/ufs/super.c                   |    1 
>  include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h |  105 +++++++++++++
>  include/linux/backing-dev.h      |  174 +++++-----------------
>  include/linux/blkdev.h           |    2 
>  include/linux/writeback.h        |   19 +-
>  include/trace/events/writeback.h |    8 -
>  mm/backing-dev.c                 |  306 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  mm/filemap.c                     |    2 
>  mm/madvise.c                     |    1 
>  mm/page-writeback.c              |  304 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  mm/truncate.c                    |    4 
>  40 files changed, 570 insertions(+), 546 deletions(-)
> 
> --
> tejun
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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