Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755055AbXJBJDo (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:03:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753619AbXJBJDF (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:03:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.ustc.edu.cn ([202.38.64.16]:39058 "HELO ustc.edu.cn" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751788AbXJBJDA (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:03:00 -0400 Message-ID: <391315777.14430@ustc.edu.cn> X-EYOUMAIL-SMTPAUTH: wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn Message-Id: <20071002084143.110486039@mail.ustc.edu.cn> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:41:43 +0800 From: Fengguang Wu To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michael Rubin Subject: [PATCH 0/5] sluggish writeback fixes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1619 Lines: 36 Andrew, The following patches fix the sluggish writeback behavior. They are well understood and well tested - but not yet widely tested. The first patch reverts the debugging -mm only check_dirty_inode_list.patch - which is no longer necessary. The following 4 patches do the real jobs: [PATCH 2/5] writeback: fix time ordering of the per superblock inode lists 8 [PATCH 3/5] writeback: fix ntfs with sb_has_dirty_inodes() [PATCH 4/5] writeback: remove pages_skipped accounting in __block_write_full_page() [PATCH 5/5] writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to indicate more io They share the same goal as the following patches in -mm. Therefore I'd recommend to put the last 4 new ones after them: writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-2.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-3.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-4.patch writeback-fix-comment-use-helper-function.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-5.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-6.patch writeback-fix-time-ordering-of-the-per-superblock-dirty-inode-lists-7.patch writeback-fix-periodic-superblock-dirty-inode-flushing.patch Regards, Fengguang -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/