On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:43:50PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > Three top level patches out of the writeback throttling patchset, that > I think should make it into mainline. No functional changes in the > first two patches, and the last patch just bumps reclaim/sync > writeback to use WRITE_SYNC as a hint to the block layer. Whatever happened to adding a new flag to indicate that write requests can be throttled, rather than overloading WRITE_SYNC with yet another (conflicting) meaning? I've already pointed out the problems associated with tagging async, bulk writes as synchronous writes so that a lower layer can avoid throttling them. Please add a new flag for communicating whether writes can be throttled to the block layer instead of reusing WRITE_SYNC. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
