On Fri, Dec 18 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 11 2009, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> ext4, at least, would like to start pushing on writeback if it starts > >> to get close to ENOSPC when reserving worst-case blocks for delalloc > >> writes. Writing out delalloc data will convert those worst-case > >> predictions into usually smaller actual usage, freeing up space > >> before we hit ENOSPC based on this speculation. > >> > >> Thanks to Jens for the suggestion for the helper function, > >> & the naming help. > >> > >> I've made the helper return status on whether writeback was > >> started even though I don't plan to use it in the ext4 patch; > >> it seems like it would be potentially useful to test this > >> in some cases. > > > > Eric, how do you want to merge these? I can easily take this first one > > through any branch, but I suppose the ext4 one should go through the > > proper ext4 channels. > > Doesn't matter to me really; maybe it'd be simpler if it all went > though the ext4 tree so that there aren't any ordering problems? Definately :-) -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
