On Fri, Jul 31 2009, Damien Wyart wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Here's the 13th version of the writeback patches. Changes since v12:
>
> > - Update to 2.6.31-rc4 ('ish, it's on top of current -git, but wil apply
> > to -rc4 as well).
> > - Drop the last patch in the series, it was a questionable optimization
> > that needs to be tested and evaluated separately.
>
> fs/sync.c has changed some time ago and I think your patch needs this
> (which I had lazyly added by hand in v12 without telling):
>
> --- a/fs/sync.c 2009-07-31 07:32:08.927926281 +0200
> +++ b/fs/sync.c.new 2009-07-31 07:31:52.499801359 +0200
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ restart:
> */
> SYSCALL_DEFINE0(sync)
> {
> - wakeup_pdflush(0);
> + wakeup_flusher_threads(0);
> sync_filesystems(0);
> sync_filesystems(1);
> if (unlikely(laptop_mode))
Argh, I had fixed that long ago, but a branch problem yesterday caused
it to be lost just before posting. How annoying. Thanks for the hint,
I'll update the v13 branch and patch.
--
Jens Axboe
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