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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:28:38 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110523092838.GA25829@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110523090739.GA27894@infradead.org>

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:07:39PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Wu, Andrew,
> 
> what's the plan for these for 2.6.40?  We'll need to make some progress
> in this area, and even if we can't get everything it we should make sure
> to at least include the updated versions of those in -mm.  But even
> some of the later ones are pretty low risk.

Yes, except for patch 14 which does not include external behavior
changes besides the good full write chunk size for large files, the
patches not in -mm are pretty trivial ones.

Aside from my simple tests, Alex also helped going through the LKP
tests with the patchset and find no writeback regressions.

Thanks,
Fengguang

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-19 21:45 [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 01/18] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 02/18] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 03/18] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 04/18] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 05/18] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 06/18] writeback: sync expired inodes first in background writeback Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 07/18] writeback: refill b_io iff empty Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 08/18] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 09/18] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 10/18] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 11/18] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 12/18] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 13/18] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 14/18] writeback: make writeback_control.nr_to_write straight Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 22:06   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 23:29     ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20  4:07       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20  6:52         ` Dave Chinner
2011-05-20  7:15           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-20  7:26             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 15/18] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 16/18] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 17/18] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io Wu Fengguang
2011-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH 18/18] writeback: rearrange the wb_writeback() loop Wu Fengguang
2011-05-23  9:07 ` [PATCH 00/18] writeback fixes and cleanups for 2.6.40 (v3) Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-23  9:28   ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-05-24  3:28     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-06-01 22:31       ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-02  2:29         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-06-07 12:13           ` writeback merge status, was " Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-07 20:15             ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-07 21:11               ` Wu Fengguang

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