[PATCH 0/8] Per-bdi writeback flusher threads v18

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 03:47:44 EST


Hi,

This is the 18th release of the writeback patchset. Changes since
v17 include:

- Change the naming of sync_sb_inodes() and sync_sb_inodes_wait(). It's
now writeback_inodes_sb() to start writeback on dirty sb inodes, and
sync_inodes_sb() to start and wait on writeback. Suggestion from Jan
Kara, and I agree it better explains what the code does.
- Fix compile error in pohmelfs.
- Update Ted's MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES patch to be MB based instead of in
pages.
- Integrate the suggestions from Christoph:
- Move wakeup_flusher_threads() into fs/fs-writeback.c, it fits
better there and allows us to make bdi_writeback_all() static.
- Get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes(). Move the issue and wait
into the two callers instead, making the old function now
wait_sb_inodes() and only concerned with waiting on already
issued IO.
- wbc->nr_to_write was mistakenly set to LLONG_MAX instead of
LONG_MAX.

Please review, thanks!

b/block/blk-core.c | 1
b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 1
b/drivers/char/mem.c | 1
b/drivers/staging/pohmelfs/inode.c | 9
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 | 1042 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
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 | 20
b/fs/sysfs/inode.c | 1
b/fs/ubifs/budget.c | 16
b/fs/ubifs/super.c | 9
b/include/linux/backing-dev.h | 55 +
b/include/linux/fs.h | 8
b/include/linux/writeback.h | 24
b/kernel/cgroup.c | 1
b/kernel/sysctl.c | 8
b/mm/Makefile | 2
b/mm/backing-dev.c | 379 ++++++++++
b/mm/page-writeback.c | 183 -----
b/mm/swap_state.c | 1
b/mm/vmscan.c | 2
mm/pdflush.c | 269 -------
30 files changed, 1267 insertions(+), 778 deletions(-)

--
Jens Axboe

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