From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] periodic write-back timer optimization Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:18:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20090528081845.GU11363@kernel.dk> References: <20090527130503.4913.62042.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <200905271323.29818.arnd@arndb.de> <4A1D31BA.6060903@nokia.com> <20090527123320.GF11363@kernel.dk> <4A1D3418.8060909@nokia.com> <20090527124719.GH11363@kernel.dk> <4A1E307B.1060807@nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, Arnd Bergmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" To: Artem Bityutskiy Return-path: Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([93.163.65.50]:36950 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753731AbZE1ISo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 04:18:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A1E307B.1060807@nokia.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 28 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: >> That would be great, I would have no problem integrating such a feature. >> It definitely makes sense. > > Hi Al, Christoph, > > unless you have objections against the whole idea, I wonder if > it would be possible to make the patches which wrap sb->s_dirt > usage go via VFS tree first, and then I'd continue the timer > optimization work separately. IMO, wrapping s_dirt makes sense > in general. I mean, patches 01-17 from this series. That makese sense, those are totally separate from the actual functionality. -- Jens Axboe