On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi, > > this patch set changes writeback_sb_inodes() to avoid iput() which might > be problematic (see patch 4 which tries to summarize our email discussions) > for some filesystems. > > Patches 1 and 2 are trivial mostly unrelated fixes (Fengguang, can you can > take these and merge them right away please?). Sure, they have been tested in linux-next for some days. > Patch 3 is a preparatory code > reshuffle and patch 4 removes the __iget() / iput() from flusher thread. These are pretty sane changes towards the right direction (in despite of the complexities involved). > As a side note, your patches to offload writeback from kswapd to flusher > thread then won't need iget/iput either if we pass page references as we talked > so that should resolve most of the concerns. > > What do you think guys? I appreciate the work a lot. Thank you for removing the major problem with the patches on pageout writeback work :-) Regards, Fengguang -- 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>