On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 05:10:12AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 03:43:47PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There are 3 patchsets sitting in the writeback tree. > > > > 1) IO-less dirty throttling v12 > > https://github.com/fengguang/linux/commits/dirty-throttling-v12 > > > > 2) writeback reasons tracing from Curt Wohlgemuth > > https://github.com/fengguang/linux/commits/writeback-reason > > > > 3) writeback queuing changes from Jan Kara and me > > https://github.com/fengguang/linux/commits/requeue-io-wait > > > > They have been merged into this branch testing in linux-next for a while: > > > > https://github.com/fengguang/linux/commits/writeback-for-next > > > > Since (3) still has an unresolved issue (detailed in the below > > links), it looks better to hold it back for this merge window. > > Given that we have run into issues so much with it that's proably > the better idea. > > To fix the originally reported issue with the missing file size updates > in XFS we plan to simply log all filesize changes in XFS. Currently I > had this in the 3.3 queue, but in the worst case we might have to move > this forward to 3.2. OK. Anyway I'll report any progress early on (3). > > The patches from (1,2) together with 2 tracing patches essential for > > debugging (1) have been pushed to the "writeback-for-linus" branch: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/writeback-for-linus > > > > If no objections, I'll send a pull request to Linus soon. > > Please do so. I'm really looking forward to see the I/O-less > balance_dirty_pages in ASAP. Done, thanks! 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
