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From: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3 v3] writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:06:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO81RMaQbJJiC=M8ckU8c7jF_MPSCrzsqNTP3Oa3er9CdqRx9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110829163425.GF5672@quack.suse.cz>

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Mon 29-08-11 18:23:13, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Mon 22-08-11 11:38:46, Curt Wohlgemuth wrote:
>> > This creates a new 'reason' field in a wb_writeback_work
>> > structure, which unambiguously identifies who initiates
>> > writeback activity.  A 'wb_reason' enumeration has been
>> > added to writeback.h, to enumerate the possible reasons.
>> >
>> > The 'writeback_work_class' and tracepoint event class and
>> > 'writeback_queue_io' tracepoints are updated to include the
>> > symbolic 'reason' in all trace events.
>> >
>> > And the 'writeback_inodes_sbXXX' family of routines has had
>> > a wb_stats parameter added to them, so callers can specify
>> > why writeback is being started.
>>   Looks good. You can add: Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
>  Oh, one small typo correction:
>
>> > +#define show_work_reason(reason)                                   \
>> > +   __print_symbolic(reason,                                        \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_BALANCE_DIRTY,       "balance_dirty"},       \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_BACKGROUND,          "background"},          \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_TRY_TO_FREE_PAGES,   "try_to_free_pages"},   \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_SYNC,                "sync"},                \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_PERIODIC,            "periodic"},            \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_LAPTOP_TIMER,        "laptop_timer"},        \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_FREE_MORE_MEM,       "free_more_memory"},    \
>> > +           {WB_REASON_FS_FREE_SPACE,       "FS_free_space"},       \
>                                                 ^^ should be in
> non-capital letters?

Oops, right, thanks for catching this.

Curt

>> > +           {WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD,       "forker_thread"}        \
>> > +   )
>
>                                                                Honza
> --
> Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> SUSE Labs, CR
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-30 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 18:38 [PATCH 1/3] writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-08-22 18:38 ` [PATCH 2/3 v3] writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-08-29 16:23   ` Jan Kara
2011-08-29 16:34     ` Jan Kara
2011-08-30 18:06       ` Curt Wohlgemuth [this message]
2011-08-22 18:38 ` [PATCH 3/3 v3] writeback: Add writeback stats for pages written Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-08-29 16:36   ` Jan Kara
2011-08-30 18:13     ` Curt Wohlgemuth
2011-08-30 22:24       ` Jan Kara
2011-08-29 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes Jan Kara

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