On Wed, Sep 09 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:37:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > They are there, have been for months! But I think Christoph is a little > > confused, we'll still do writeback inline from balance_dirty_pages(). It > > does writeback_inodes_wbc(), which does not schedule async writeout. > > Hmm, at least the version I have applied right now calls > bdi_start_writeback and not writeback_inodes_wbc from > balance_dirty_pages. But you sent our another spin or two afer those, > so maybe it changed again. Yes, that's the very end check, the old code does the same. Further up it does writeback_inodes_wbc() if we are over the threshold. -- 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