linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty

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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 08:59:20 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:     <axboe@...nel.dk>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in
 balance_dirty_pages()

On 11/02/2016 08:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:08:47PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
>> waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
>> to increase the priority of writes.
>
> Do we need to care about atomicy of multiple threads updating the value
> ?
>
> Otherwise this looks fine.

Don't think we have to care about it too much, it's a soft hint similar
wb->dirty_exceeded.

-- 
Jens Axboe