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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	jack@suse.cz, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] block: add WRITE_BACKGROUND
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 15:55:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102145520.GE13964@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478034531-28559-2-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:08:44PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This adds a new request flag, REQ_BACKGROUND, that callers can use to
> tell the block layer that this is background (non-urgent) IO.

The subject still says WRITE_BACKGROUND :)

Otherwise looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-02 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-01 21:08 [PATCHSET] Throttled buffered writeback Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] block: add WRITE_BACKGROUND Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:55   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-11-02 16:22     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-05 22:27   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] writeback: mark background writeback as such Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-05 22:26   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages() Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-02 14:59     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-08 13:02   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] block: add code to track actual device queue depth Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 14:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-02 15:02     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-02 16:40       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-11-05 22:37   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jens Axboe
2016-11-08 13:30   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-08 15:25     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-09  9:01       ` Jan Kara
2016-11-09 16:09         ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-09 19:52           ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-10 19:38             ` Jan Kara
2016-11-12  5:19               ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe
2016-11-08 13:39   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-08 15:41     ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-09  8:40       ` Jan Kara
2016-11-09 16:07         ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-09 19:52           ` Jens Axboe
2016-11-10 19:36             ` Jan Kara
2016-11-10  0:00           ` Dave Chinner
2016-11-01 21:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: hook up writeback throttling Jens Axboe
2016-11-08 13:42   ` Jan Kara
2016-11-08 15:16     ` Jens Axboe

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