Re: [fuse-devel] Horrible mmap write performance (kernel writeback issue?)

From: Sedat Dilek
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 04:07:56 EST


On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Howard Cochran
<hcochran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Jakob Unterwurzacher
> <jakobunt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 12.04.2016 13:09, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Probably you want to look into:
>>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/10/21
>>>>
>>>> The patch mentioned above solves the issue for me.
>>>
>>> Heh, I tracked it down to wb_over_bg_thresh() and fell asleep. Yeah,
>>> that is the right fix.
>>
>> Works wonderfully now, thanks to everybody involved. Is it too late for 4.6?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jakob
>>
> Jakob, et. al.
>
> You're welcome. That performance problem stumped me for a couple of
> weeks until tracked it down and submitted the fix.
>

What has happened to "writeback: Fix performance regression in
wb_over_bg_thresh()"?
I checked Linux v4.6-rc5, it is not included.
Is it in another Git tree? If yes, where?

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