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* [PATCH 0/10] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v11
@ 2009-06-17 11:07 Jens Axboe
  2009-06-17 11:07 ` [PATCH 01/10] writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info Jens Axboe
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  0 siblings, 11 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jens Axboe @ 2009-06-17 11:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
  Cc: chris.mason, david, hch, akpm, jack, yanmin_zhang, richard,
	damien.wyart, fweisbec, Alan.Brunelle

Hi,

Here's the 11th version of the writeback patches. Changes since v10:

- I think this finally fixes the one show stopper issue I was aware
  of. This is the one that Yanmin Zhang reported and which has plagued
  this patch series for some time. Basically it was due to a race
  between work queueing and exited tasks. I cleaned up this part while
  fixing the bug.
- The three prep patches are now merged, so they have been deleted.
- Updated to current -git.

For ease of patching, I've put the full diff here:

  http://kernel.dk/writeback-v11.patch

and also stored this in a writeback-v11 branch that will not change,
you can pull that into Linus tree from here:

  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback-v11

Please test and report results/interesting finds. Thanks! I hope to merge
this work sooner rather than later, so please do give it a good beating.

 b/block/blk-core.c            |    1 
 b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c  |    1 
 b/drivers/char/mem.c          |    1 
 b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c          |    1 
 b/fs/buffer.c                 |    2 
 b/fs/char_dev.c               |    1 
 b/fs/configfs/inode.c         |    1 
 b/fs/fs-writeback.c           |  812 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 b/fs/fuse/inode.c             |    1 
 b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c        |    1 
 b/fs/nfs/client.c             |    1 
 b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c        |    1 
 b/fs/ramfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/super.c                  |    3 
 b/fs/sysfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/ubifs/super.c            |    1 
 b/include/linux/backing-dev.h |   72 ++-
 b/include/linux/fs.h          |   11 
 b/include/linux/writeback.h   |   15 
 b/kernel/cgroup.c             |    1 
 b/mm/Makefile                 |    2 
 b/mm/backing-dev.c            |  530 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 b/mm/page-writeback.c         |  157 ------
 b/mm/swap_state.c             |    1 
 b/mm/vmscan.c                 |    2 
 mm/pdflush.c                  |  269 -----------
 26 files changed, 1293 insertions(+), 597 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe


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* [PATCH 0/10] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v12
@ 2009-06-25 10:41 Jens Axboe
  2009-06-25 10:41 ` [PATCH 06/10] writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writeback task Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jens Axboe @ 2009-06-25 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel
  Cc: chris.mason, david, hch, akpm, jack, yanmin_zhang, richard,
	damien.wyart, fweisbec, Alan.Brunelle

Hi,

Here's the 12th version of the writeback patches. Changes since v11:

- Fixup kthread_run() error check, it should use IS_ERR() instead of
  checking for NULL. Thanks Andrew.
- Fix a silly buglet that would quickly respawn otherwise idle threads
  once they had exited. This was due to an inverted if test. Didn't cause
  any harm except potentially too many writeback threads setting idle in
  the system.
- Integrate kupdate periodic writeback with the explicit writeback. Cleans
  that part up.
- Update to 2.6.31-rc1. With the recent patches from viro and hch, v11
  did not apply cleanly at all to 2.6.31-rc1.

For ease of patching, I've put the full diff here:

  http://kernel.dk/writeback-v12.patch

and also stored this in a writeback-v12 branch that will not change,
you can pull that into Linus tree from here:

  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback-v12

Please test and report results/interesting finds. Thanks! The target
for this patchset is 2.6.32 and it'll be sitting (and has been for the past
week approx) in -next until then.

 b/block/blk-core.c            |    1 
 b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c  |    1 
 b/drivers/char/mem.c          |    1 
 b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c          |    1 
 b/fs/buffer.c                 |    2 
 b/fs/char_dev.c               |    1 
 b/fs/configfs/inode.c         |    1 
 b/fs/fs-writeback.c           |  775 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 b/fs/fuse/inode.c             |    1 
 b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c        |    1 
 b/fs/nfs/client.c             |    1 
 b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c        |    1 
 b/fs/ramfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/super.c                  |    3 
 b/fs/sysfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/ubifs/super.c            |    1 
 b/include/linux/backing-dev.h |   71 +++
 b/include/linux/fs.h          |   11 
 b/include/linux/writeback.h   |   15 
 b/kernel/cgroup.c             |    1 
 b/mm/Makefile                 |    2 
 b/mm/backing-dev.c            |  533 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 b/mm/page-writeback.c         |  157 ------
 b/mm/swap_state.c             |    1 
 b/mm/vmscan.c                 |    2 
 mm/pdflush.c                  |  269 -----------
 26 files changed, 1259 insertions(+), 596 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe



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* [PATCH 0/10] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v14
@ 2009-08-31 12:14 Jens Axboe
  2009-08-31 12:14 ` [PATCH 06/10] writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writeback task Jens Axboe
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: Jens Axboe @ 2009-08-31 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, chris.mason, david, hch, akpm, jack

Hi,

Here's the 14th version of the writeback patches. Changes since v13:

- Integrate Jan Kara's cleaner flag handling for the bdi work items.
- Protect writeback_single_inode() with s_umount held, so that we don't
  race with umount or remount. Also from Jan Kara.
- Added Ted's patch for increasing the default ->nr_to_write and
  exposing a proc file to modify it from userspace.
- Sync with latest -git, should apply to -rc8 and current HEAD fine.

I think this is still cleaner than maintaining per-sb inode lists,
as it allows us easier flexibility with adding more threads per sb
and also more backing devices per sb.

For ease of patching, I've put the full diff here:

  http://kernel.dk/writeback-v14.patch

and also stored this in a writeback-v14 branch that will not change,
you can pull that into Linus tree from here:

  git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback-v14

Please test and report results/interesting finds. Thanks! The target
for this patchset is 2.6.32 and it'll be sitting (and has been for the past
week approx) in -next until then. I've did a quick test on XFS, the results
are here:

  http://kernel.dk/dd-md0-xfs-flush.png

for this patchset, and:

  http://kernel.dk/dd-md0-xfs-pdflush.png

for stock mainline (-git). It's two apps, each writing a file with buffered
IO.  It was generated with seekwatcher kicking off a fio run, and it's
logging actual disk throughput. I think the results speak for themselves.
Note that the run was done WITHOUT increasing ->nr_to_write.

 b/block/blk-core.c            |    1 
 b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c  |    1 
 b/drivers/char/mem.c          |    1 
 b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c          |    1 
 b/fs/buffer.c                 |    2 
 b/fs/char_dev.c               |    1 
 b/fs/configfs/inode.c         |    1 
 b/fs/fs-writeback.c           |  769 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 b/fs/fuse/inode.c             |    1 
 b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c        |    1 
 b/fs/nfs/client.c             |    1 
 b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c        |    1 
 b/fs/ramfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/super.c                  |    3 
 b/fs/sync.c                   |    2 
 b/fs/sysfs/inode.c            |    1 
 b/fs/ubifs/super.c            |    1 
 b/include/linux/backing-dev.h |   71 +++
 b/include/linux/fs.h          |   11 
 b/include/linux/writeback.h   |   16 
 b/kernel/cgroup.c             |    1 
 b/kernel/sysctl.c             |    8 
 b/mm/Makefile                 |    2 
 b/mm/backing-dev.c            |  533 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 b/mm/page-writeback.c         |  165 +------
 b/mm/swap_state.c             |    1 
 b/mm/vmscan.c                 |    2 
 mm/pdflush.c                  |  269 -----------
 28 files changed, 1270 insertions(+), 598 deletions(-)

-- 
Jens Axboe



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