Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] cgroup, blkcg: prevent dirty inodes to pin dying memory cgroups

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Jun 04 2021 - 19:31:45 EST


Hello,

On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 03:24:38PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> I agree that switching to the nearest ancestor makes sense. If I remember
> correctly, I was doing this in v1 (or at least planned to do), but then
> switched to zeroing the pointer and then to bdi's wb.
>
> I fixed it in v8 and pushed it here: https://github.com/rgushchin/linux/tree/cgwb.8 .
> I'll wait a bit for Jan's and others feedback and will post v8 on Monday.
> Hopefully, it will be the final version.

Sounds great.

> Btw, how are such patches usually routed? Through Jens's tree?

I think the past writeback patches went through -mm.

Thanks.

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tejun