merging the per-bdi writeback patchset

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 04:12:14 EST


Hi,

Things are looking good for this patchset and it's been in -next for
almost a week without any reports of problems. So I'd like to merge it
for 2.6.31 if at all possible. Any objections?

This was the last posting of the patchset:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/17/143

git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git writeback

Jens Axboe (10):
writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
writeback: separate the flushing state/task from the bdi
writeback: support > 1 flusher thread per bdi
writeback: allow sleepy exit of default writeback task
writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
writeback: use spin_trylock() in bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE

block/blk-core.c | 1 +
drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 1 +
drivers/char/mem.c | 1 +
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 1 +
fs/buffer.c | 2 +-
fs/char_dev.c | 1 +
fs/configfs/inode.c | 1 +
fs/fs-writeback.c | 812 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 +
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 1 +
fs/nfs/client.c | 1 +
fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmfs.c | 1 +
fs/ramfs/inode.c | 1 +
fs/super.c | 3 -
fs/sysfs/inode.c | 1 +
fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 +
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 71 ++++-
include/linux/fs.h | 11 +-
include/linux/writeback.h | 15 +-
kernel/cgroup.c | 1 +
mm/Makefile | 2 +-
mm/backing-dev.c | 532 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
mm/page-writeback.c | 157 ++-------
mm/pdflush.c | 269 --------------
mm/swap_state.c | 1 +
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
26 files changed, 1294 insertions(+), 597 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 mm/pdflush.c

--
Jens Axboe

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