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. > 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>