On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, Stephen, Ted.
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:56:43PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> Today's linux-next merge of the ext4 tree got a conflict in
>> fs/ext4/super.c between commit fd89d5f2030a ("ext4: convert to
>> alloc_workqueue()") from Linus' tree and commit 198868f35de9 ("ext4: Use
>> single thread to perform DIO unwritten convertion") from the ext4 tree.
>>
>> I just used the ext4 tree version.
>
> Both are about the same conversion but the one using alloc_workqueue()
> is better because 1. create_singlethread_workqueue() is going away and
> 2. it doesn't require strict ordering among queued works.
>
> Ted, what do you think?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun
>
As my linux-next system is unstable, I had a look into my own merge
(into linux-next GIT) before ext4 stuff went to mainline.
Just wanted to test a revert to "old" code in linux-next (see below).
- Sedat -
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ __acquires(bitlock)
vaf.fmt = fmt;
vaf.va = &args;
- printk(KERN_CRIT "EXT4-fs error (device %s): %s:%d: group %u",
+ printk(KERN_CRIT "EXT4-fs error (device %s): %s:%d: group %u, ",
sb->s_id, function, line, grp);
if (ino)
printk(KERN_CONT "inode %lu: ", ino);
@@ -3518,12 +3518,7 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_block
*sb, void *data, int silent)
percpu_counter_set(&sbi->s_dirtyblocks_counter, 0);
no_journal:
- /*
- * The maximum number of concurrent works can be high and
- * concurrency isn't really necessary. Limit it to 1.
- */
- EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq =
- alloc_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1);
+ EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq =
create_singlethread_workqueue("ext4-dio-unwritten");
if (!EXT4_SB(sb)->dio_unwritten_wq) {
printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: failed to create DIO workqueue\n");
goto failed_mount_wq;
- EOT -
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