On Mon 20-06-16 12:43:34, 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 > > 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. :( Actually it would be a pitty to have this dropped. Please rebase & resend the patches and send them to AKPM asking him to merge them because Al isn't replying... That should make things moving. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
