On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Chris Mason wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:42:41AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:34:03AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > (sorry if you receive this twice, the original posting had a mangled > > > From address). > > > > > > This is the 20th release of the writeback patchset. Changes since > > > v19 include: > > > > > > - Drop the max writeback pages patch from Ted. I think we should do > > > something to that effect, but there's really no reason to entangle > > > it with this patchset. > > > > That's reasonable, but I'd really like to know whether some VM hacker > > going to try to deal with this during the 2.6.32 window? Such as > > maybe Wu Fengguang's patches, perhaps? > > Wu Fengguang's patches seem very reasonable to me. My only concern is > that with tossing it in all at once. I'd rather seen Jens' work go in > and then incremental benchmarking done afterward. OK, if that's the general consensus, then I'll add it back and we can build from there. -- 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
