From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] fs,btrfs: Allow kswapd to writeback pages
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:55:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100701095509.GF31741@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100630130504.GT1993@think>
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:05:04AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:47PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > As only kswapd and memcg are writing back pages, there should be no
> > danger of overflowing the stack. Allow the writing back of dirty pages
> > in btrfs from the VM.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
>
> But, this is only the metadata writepage. fs/btrfs/inode.c has another
> one for data pages. (just look for PF_MEMALLOC).
>
My bad, fixed now. Thanks.
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-01 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-29 11:34 [PATCH 0/14] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V3 Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 01/14] vmscan: Fix mapping use after free Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 14:27 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-01 9:53 ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 14:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 02/14] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 03/14] tracing, vmscan: Add trace events for LRU page isolation Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 04/14] tracing, vmscan: Add trace event when a page is written Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 05/14] tracing, vmscan: Add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 06/14] vmscan: kill prev_priority completely Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 07/14] vmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 08/14] vmscan: Remove unnecessary temporary vars in do_try_to_free_pages Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 09/14] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 10/14] vmscan: Setup pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 11/14] vmscan: Update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list() Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 12/14] vmscan: Do not writeback pages in direct reclaim Mel Gorman
2010-07-02 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-05 13:49 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-06 0:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-06 5:46 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-06 6:02 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-06 6:38 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-06 10:12 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-06 11:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-06 11:24 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-06 15:25 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-06 20:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-07-06 22:28 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-07 0:24 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-07 1:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 9:43 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-07 12:51 ` Rik van Riel
2010-07-07 1:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-08 6:39 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-07 5:03 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-07 9:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-07 18:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 13/14] fs,btrfs: Allow kswapd to writeback pages Mel Gorman
2010-06-30 13:05 ` Chris Mason
2010-07-01 9:55 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-06-29 11:34 ` [PATCH 14/14] fs,xfs: " Mel Gorman
2010-06-29 12:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-29 12:51 ` Mel Gorman
2010-06-30 0:14 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-01 10:30 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-02 6:26 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-02 6:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-05 14:16 ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-06 0:45 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-07-02 19:33 ` [PATCH 0/14] Avoid overflowing of stack during page reclaim V3 Andrew Morton
2010-07-05 1:35 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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