On 06/20/16 18:43, Brian Foster wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:46:38PM +0000, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: >> >> Once upon a time there was this fine patch set called >> "improve sync efficiency with sb inode wb list" [1] >> by Brian Foster, who fixed up the original version by Josef Bacik. >> >> I've been running with this since then and it seems to work flawlessly, >> yet it doesn't seem that this ever got merged..does anybody know why? >> >> Waiman Long has been working on something similar with his per-CPU >> lists, but those patches naturally collide a bit, so I'm wondering >> what's what. >> >> Fwiw the effect of the wb list on systems with many cached inodes is >> phenomal; it would be a shame if this went unmerged. >> > > FWIW, the latest version posted was v7: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/104078 Ah yes..that was a comment update so I didn't merge it. > Thanks for the testing feedback. Unfortunately, I've not really heard > any feedback on getting this merged. I'm not sure the previous > version(s) by Josef and Dave got much traction either. :( The early versions by Josef had a lockdep issue, which your version apparently fixed. I've not had a single problem with it..but that admittedly doesn't mean anything. At some point I tried merging it with the per-CPU list patches (for fun :) but that turned out a bit too hairy for me. cheers, Holger -- 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
