Hi, This is the 18th release of the writeback patchset. Changes since v17 include: - Change the naming of sync_sb_inodes() and sync_sb_inodes_wait(). It's now writeback_inodes_sb() to start writeback on dirty sb inodes, and sync_inodes_sb() to start and wait on writeback. Suggestion from Jan Kara, and I agree it better explains what the code does. - Fix compile error in pohmelfs. - Update Ted's MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES patch to be MB based instead of in pages. - Integrate the suggestions from Christoph: - Move wakeup_flusher_threads() into fs/fs-writeback.c, it fits better there and allows us to make bdi_writeback_all() static. - Get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes(). Move the issue and wait into the two callers instead, making the old function now wait_sb_inodes() and only concerned with waiting on already issued IO. - wbc->nr_to_write was mistakenly set to LLONG_MAX instead of LONG_MAX. Please review, thanks! b/block/blk-core.c | 1 b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 1 b/drivers/char/mem.c | 1 b/drivers/staging/pohmelfs/inode.c | 9 b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 1 b/fs/buffer.c | 2 b/fs/char_dev.c | 1 b/fs/configfs/inode.c | 1 b/fs/fs-writeback.c | 1042 +++++++++++++++++++++-------- b/fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 1 b/fs/nfs/client.c | 1 b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c | 1 b/fs/ramfs/inode.c | 1 b/fs/super.c | 3 b/fs/sync.c | 20 b/fs/sysfs/inode.c | 1 b/fs/ubifs/budget.c | 16 b/fs/ubifs/super.c | 9 b/include/linux/backing-dev.h | 55 + b/include/linux/fs.h | 8 b/include/linux/writeback.h | 24 b/kernel/cgroup.c | 1 b/kernel/sysctl.c | 8 b/mm/Makefile | 2 b/mm/backing-dev.c | 379 ++++++++++ b/mm/page-writeback.c | 183 ----- b/mm/swap_state.c | 1 b/mm/vmscan.c | 2 mm/pdflush.c | 269 ------- 30 files changed, 1267 insertions(+), 778 deletions(-) -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
