From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, jack@suse.cz, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] writeback: switch wakeup_flusher_threads() to cyclic writeback
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 14:43:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171003124305.GM11879@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506543239-31470-6-git-send-email-axboe@kernel.dk>
On Wed 27-09-17 14:13:52, Jens Axboe wrote:
> We're writing back the full range of dirty pages on the devices,
> there's no point in making this special and not do normal range
> cyclic writeback.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
OK, since this is just ordinary "memory cleaning" writeback, I agree that
range_cyclic probably makes more sense. You can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Honza
> ---
> fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> index bb6148dc6d24..65e6992d8719 100644
> --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
> +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
> @@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ void wakeup_flusher_threads(enum wb_reason reason)
>
> list_for_each_entry_rcu(wb, &bdi->wb_list, bdi_node)
> wb_start_writeback(wb, wb_split_bdi_pages(wb, nr_pages),
> - false, reason);
> + true, reason);
> }
> rcu_read_unlock();
> }
> --
> 2.7.4
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-03 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-27 20:13 [PATCH 0/12 v3] Writeback improvements Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 01/12] buffer: have alloc_page_buffers() use __GFP_NOFAIL Jens Axboe
2017-09-28 14:08 ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-10-02 15:02 ` Jan Kara
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 02/12] buffer: grow_dev_page() should use __GFP_NOFAIL for all cases Jens Axboe
2017-09-28 14:11 ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-09-28 18:12 ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-03 12:10 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-03 12:25 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-03 14:36 ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-03 15:52 ` Jan Kara
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 03/12] buffer: eliminate the need to call free_more_memory() in __getblk_slow() Jens Axboe
2017-09-28 14:12 ` Nikolay Borisov
2017-10-03 12:22 ` Jan Kara
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 04/12] fs: kill 'nr_pages' argument from wakeup_flusher_threads() Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 05/12] writeback: switch wakeup_flusher_threads() to cyclic writeback Jens Axboe
2017-10-03 12:43 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 06/12] writeback: provide a wakeup_flusher_threads_bdi() Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 07/12] writeback: pass in '0' for nr_pages writeback in laptop mode Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 08/12] writeback: make wb_start_writeback() static Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 09/12] writeback: move nr_pages == 0 logic to one location Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 10/12] writeback: only allow one inflight and pending full flush Jens Axboe
2017-09-28 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2017-09-28 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-09-29 0:17 ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-29 5:21 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-10-03 16:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-10-03 16:11 ` Jens Axboe
2017-10-03 17:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-09-29 0:15 ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 11/12] writeback: make sync_inodes_sb() use range cyclic writeback Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:13 ` [PATCH 12/12] writeback: kill off ->range_cycle option Jens Axboe
2017-09-27 20:22 ` Jens Axboe
2017-09-28 13:19 ` [PATCH 0/12 v3] Writeback improvements John Stoffel
2017-09-28 13:39 ` Jens Axboe
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