On Fri, Sep 11 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:42:41AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > 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? > > > > Or do I need to put in some kind of hack into ext4 ala what XFS did to > > work around this problem until we can come up with a longer-term fix? > > I defintively want to see something in the VM, but I also agree with > Jens' decision not to include it in the patchkit. It's not really > related to the patchkit except for depending on it, and we still > have a lot of discussion going on. If we can't get an agreement with > the VM people by the end of the regular merge window I'm all for pushing > your simple patch. I'd also appreciate if we can keep Wu (or Ted's) patch out of the merge until after -rc1 or at least with a few -git releases in between, so it'll be easier to check for regressions. -- 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
