Re: [PATCH 00/15] writeback fixes and cleanups for 3.0 (v5)

[Wu Fengguang]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:04:41AM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:32:36 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Here are the intented patches for upstream submission, rebased to v3.0-rc2:
> > 
> > 	[PATCH 01/15] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage
> > 	[PATCH 02/15] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock
> > 	[PATCH 03/15] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned
> > 	[PATCH 04/15] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written
> > 	[PATCH 05/15] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target
> > 	[PATCH 06/15] writeback: refill b_io iff empty
> > 	[PATCH 07/15] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock
> > 	[PATCH 08/15] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback()
> > 	[PATCH 09/15] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time
> > 	[PATCH 10/15] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc
> > 	[PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs
> > 	[PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io
> > 	[PATCH 13/15] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion
> > 	[PATCH 14/15] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode
> > 	[PATCH 15/15] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io
> 
> Looks OK to me, although I think a few of the changelogs are lacking
> important details.

Thanks.

> > They are git pullable from
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback
> > 
> 
> Please ask Stephen to suck this into linux-next when ready.

OK, now it includes the updated patches. It's based on v3.0-rc2 and
also compile/runs OK with 3.0.0-rc2-next-20110607.

Stephen, would you help add this git branch to linux-next? Thank you.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git#fs-writeback

Thanks,
Fengguang
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