Re: merging the per-bdi writeback patchset

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

Hi

> On Tue, Jun 23 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:11:56 +0200 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Things are looking good for this patchset and it's been in -next for
> > > almost a week without any reports of problems. So I'd like to merge it
> > > for 2.6.31 if at all possible. Any objections?
> > 
> > erk.  I was rather expecting I'd have time to have a look at it all.
> 
> OK, we can wait if we have to, just trying to avoid having to keep this
> fresh for one full cycle. I have posted this patchset 11 times though
> over months, so it's not like it's a new piece of work :-)
> 
> > It's unclear to me actually _why_ the performance changes which were
> > observed have actually occurred.  In fact it's a bit unclear (to me)
> > why the patchset was written and what it sets out to achieve :(
> 
> It started out trying to get rid of the pdflush uneven writeout. If you
> look at various pdflush intensive workloads, even on a single disk you
> often have 5 or more pdflush threads working the same device. It's just
> not optimal. Another issue was starvation with request allocation. Given
> that pdflush does non-blocking writes (it has to, by design), pdflush
> can potentially be starved if someone else is working the device.

Can you please make reproduce program and post mesurement result?
I hope to mesure the same program on my box.

Plus, Can you please write more vervose patch description? your patch is a
bit harder review.



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