> Seems to me that this problem has been solved elswhere in the > kernel, like for tracking of timers to expire on a given jiffie > (tvec, tvec_base, timer_lists). Perhaps we should be looking to move > to a set of time based lists for efficiently tracking what inodes > should be written back at a given background writeback interval > rather than trying to keep everything on the one list. It's also pretty similar to the mru cache we use for filesystems in XFS, except that we'd start writeback instead of deleting items. The whole bucket scheme there should also help with I/O batching. -- 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
