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Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages()
Date 2016-11-02 16:00 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:08:47PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Note in the bdi_writeback structure whenever a task ends up sleeping
> waiting for progress. We can use that information in the lower layers
> to increase the priority of writes.

Do we need to care about atomicy of multiple threads updating the value
?

Otherwise this looks fine.

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[PATCHSET] Throttled buffered writeback Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
  [PATCH 3/8] writeback: mark background writeback as such Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/8] writeback: mark background writeback as such Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-11-02 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/8] writeback: mark background writeback as such Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-05 23:30 +0100
  [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in balance_dirty_pages() Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in         balance_dirty_pages() Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-11-02 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/8] writeback: track if we're sleeping on progress in  balance_dirty_pages() Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-08 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-08 14:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-09 10:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-09 21:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 6/8] block: add scalable completion tracking of requests Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-10 20:40 +0100
  [PATCH 2/8] writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/8] writeback: add wbc_to_write_flags() Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-11-02 16:00 +0100
  [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-08 14:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-08 16:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-09 09:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-09 17:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-11-09 21:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-10 20:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 7/8] blk-wbt: add general throttling mechanism Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-11-10 01:10 +0100
  [PATCH 8/8] block: hook up writeback throttling Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-11-01 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 8/8] block: hook up writeback throttling Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-11-08 14:50 +0100

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