Re: [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

2008-01-18 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:51:51PM -0800, Michael Rubin wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 4:36 AM, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. > > The main goals are: > > > > (1) small files should not be starved by big dirty file

Re: [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Rubin
On Jan 15, 2008 4:36 AM, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, > > This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. > The main goals are: > > (1) small files should not be starved by big dirty files > (2) sync as fast as possible for not-blocked inodes/pages > - don't l

Re: [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

2008-01-15 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:33:01AM -0800, Michael Rubin wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 4:36 AM, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. > > Anyone know which tree is this patched based out of? They are against the latest

Re: [PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Rubin
On Jan 15, 2008 4:36 AM, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, > > This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. Anyone know which tree is this patched based out of? > The main goals are: > > (1) small files should not be starved by big dirty files > (2) sync as fast a

[PATCH 00/13] writeback bug fixes and simplifications take 2

2008-01-15 Thread Fengguang Wu
Andrew, This patchset mainly polishes the writeback queuing policies. The main goals are: (1) small files should not be starved by big dirty files (2) sync as fast as possible for not-blocked inodes/pages - don't leave them out; no congestion_wait() in between them (3) avoid busy iowait for b