[PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
Andrew, I'd suggest it for 2.6.25. It's a safer version of the reverted patch in .24-rc8. It was tested on ext2/ext3/jfs/xfs/reiserfs and won't 100% iowait even without the other bug fixing patches. Fengguang --- writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files After making dirty a 100M file, t

Re: [PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-19 Thread Martin Knoblauch
olnar <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:28:18 AM > Subject: [PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files > > On Jan 16, 2008 9:15 AM, Martin Knoblauch &

[PATCH] writeback: speed up writeback of big dirty files

2008-01-17 Thread Fengguang Wu
> On Jan 16, 2008 9:15 AM, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fengguang's latest writeback patch applies cleanly, builds, boots on > 2.6.24-rc8. Linus, if possible, I'd suggest this patch be merged for 2.6.24. It's a safer version of the reverted patch. It was tested on ext2/ext3/jfs/