Andrew, Here are the intented patches for upstream submission, rebased to v3.0-rc2: [PATCH 01/15] writeback: introduce .tagged_writepages for the WB_SYNC_NONE sync stage [PATCH 02/15] writeback: update dirtied_when for synced inode to prevent livelock [PATCH 03/15] writeback: introduce writeback_control.inodes_cleaned [PATCH 04/15] writeback: try more writeback as long as something was written [PATCH 05/15] writeback: the kupdate expire timestamp should be a moving target [PATCH 06/15] writeback: refill b_io iff empty [PATCH 07/15] writeback: split inode_wb_list_lock into bdi_writeback.list_lock [PATCH 08/15] writeback: elevate queue_io() into wb_writeback() [PATCH 09/15] writeback: avoid extra sync work at enqueue time [PATCH 10/15] writeback: add bdi_dirty_limit() kernel-doc [PATCH 11/15] writeback: skip balance_dirty_pages() for in-memory fs [PATCH 12/15] writeback: remove writeback_control.more_io [PATCH 13/15] writeback: remove .nonblocking and .encountered_congestion [PATCH 14/15] writeback: trace event writeback_single_inode [PATCH 15/15] writeback: trace event writeback_queue_io fs/block_dev.c | 16 ++- fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 219 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------ fs/inode.c | 5 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 3 +- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 2 +- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 2 + include/linux/writeback.h | 10 +-- include/trace/events/btrfs.h | 6 +- include/trace/events/ext4.h | 6 +- include/trace/events/writeback.h | 100 +++++++++++++++++- mm/backing-dev.c | 21 +++- mm/filemap.c | 6 +- mm/page-writeback.c | 25 +++-- mm/rmap.c | 4 +- 15 files changed, 270 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) They are git pullable from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git fs-writeback Thanks to Jan and Dave for the careful reviews! Thanks, Fengguang -- 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
