Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 2009 15:37:44 +0300 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/19] periodic write-back timer optimization |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, May 27 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: >> ext Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Wednesday 27 May 2009, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> This is the second attempt. The first one was here: >>>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=124301072305588&w=2 >>>> It was very hacky and got no comments. >>> How does this relate to the per-BDI writeback patches that >>> Jens is working on? Doesn't that require a completely different >>> (probably simpler) implementation of your patch? >> At a quick glance, our works do not intersect. He seems >> to be changing the guts of write-back, while I only touch >> the timer which wakes up the periodic write-back thread, >> nothing else. I'll try to take Jens' patches and see. > > There's definitely overlap! The timer is gone with my patches and so is > pdflush. For an idle (idle here meaning no background writeback > activity) system, there should just be bdi-default running. And that > will wake up every dirty_writeback_interval by default.
Hmm, right. Will be working on top of your patches then.
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