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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 19:13:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFy+Qx2f9SSoy18ou9xehL=TFdro4tc1_64v1jQmpXYKrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140530015852.GG14410@dastard>

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
>
> If the patch I sent solves the swap stack usage issue, then perhaps
> we should look towards adding "blk_plug_start_async()" to pass such
> hints to the plug flushing. I'd want to use the same behaviour in
> __xfs_buf_delwri_submit() for bulk metadata writeback in XFS, and
> probably also in mpage_writepages() for bulk data writeback in
> WB_SYNC_NONE context...

Yeah, adding a flag to the plug about what kind of plug it is does
sound quite reasonable. It already has that "magic" field, it could
easily be extended to have a "async" vs "sync" bit to it..

Of course, it's also possible that the unplugging code could just look
at the actual requests that are plugged to determine that, and maybe
we wouldn't even need to mark things specially. I don't think we ever
end up mixing reads and writes under the same plug, so "first request
is a write" is probably a good approximation for "async".

             Linus

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-30  2:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28  6:53 [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: print stack usage right before Oops Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  6:53 ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  8:37   ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28  9:13     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 16:06       ` Johannes Weiner
2014-05-28 21:55         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  6:06         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-28  9:04   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  1:09     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  2:44       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  4:11         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  2:47       ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-28  9:27   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-05-29 13:23     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-28 14:14   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-28 14:23     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 22:11       ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 22:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 23:17           ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 23:21             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-28 15:43   ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-28 16:08     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-28 16:11       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-28 16:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 16:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-28 22:31     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-28 22:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  1:30         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  1:58           ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29  2:51             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 23:36             ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  0:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:20                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  0:31                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:50                     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:24                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  1:58                         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  2:13                           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-05-30  6:21                         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  0:15               ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  2:12                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  4:37                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-31  1:45                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30  6:12                   ` Minchan Kim
2014-06-03 13:28                   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2014-06-03 19:04                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  2:42           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  5:14             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-29  6:01             ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26               ` virtio ring cleanups, which save stack on older gcc Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 1/4] Hack: measure stack taken by vring from virtio_blk Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 15:39                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 2/4] virtio_net: pass well-formed sg to virtqueue_add_inbuf() Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 10:07                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 3/4] virtio_ring: assume sgs are always well-formed Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 11:18                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29  7:26                 ` [PATCH 4/4] virtio_ring: unify direct/indirect code paths Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:52                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-05-29 11:05                     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 11:33                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-29 11:29                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-05-30  2:37                     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:41                 ` virtio ring cleanups, which save stack on older gcc Minchan Kim
2014-05-29 10:39                   ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-29 11:08                   ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29 23:45                     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:06                       ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  6:56                       ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-29  7:26             ` [RFC 2/2] x86_64: expand kernel stack to 16K Dave Chinner
2014-05-29 15:24               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29 23:40                 ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29 23:53                 ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  0:06                   ` Dave Jones
2014-05-30  0:21                     ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30  0:29                       ` Dave Jones
2014-05-30  0:32                       ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30  1:34                         ` Dave Chinner
2014-05-30 15:25                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30 15:41                             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30 15:52                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30 16:06                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-30 17:24                                   ` Dave Hansen
2014-05-30 18:12                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-30  9:48                 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-30 15:36                   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-31  2:06             ` Jens Axboe
2014-06-02 22:59               ` Dave Chinner
2014-06-03 13:02               ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-05-29  3:46     ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  4:13       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-05-29  5:10         ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-30 21:23     ` Andi Kleen
2014-05-28 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: print stack usage right before Oops Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  3:52   ` Minchan Kim
2014-05-29  3:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-05-29  3:49   ` Minchan Kim

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