On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:08:47PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping > waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers > to increase the priority of writes. Do we need to care about atomicy of multiple threads updating the value ? Otherwise this looks fine. -- 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