From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961308D0040 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:45:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:42:22 +0100 From: Jan Kara Subject: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Writeback - current state and future Message-ID: <20110204164222.GG4104@quack.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: lsf-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Hi, I'd like to have one session about writeback. The content would highly depend on the current state of things but on a general level, I'd like to quickly sum up what went into the kernel (or is mostly ready to go) since last LSF (handling of background writeback, livelock avoidance), what is being worked on - IO-less balance_dirty_pages() (if it won't be in the mostly done section), what other things need to be improved (kswapd writeout, writeback_inodes_sb_if_idle() mess, come to my mind now) Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org