[PATCH 00/35] IO-less dirty throttling v4

Andrew, I'm glad to release this extensively tested v4 IO-less dirty throttling patchset. It's based on 2.6.37-rc5 and Jan's sync livelock patches. Given its trickiness and possibility of side effects, independent tests are highly welcome. Here is ...

Message posted on the December 13th, 2010 - 10:20 AM ET

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[PATCH 00/47] IO-less dirty throttling v3

Andrew, I'm glad to release this extensively tested v3 IO-less dirty throttling patchset. It's based on 2.6.37-rc5 and Jan's sync livelock patches. Given its trickiness and possibility of side effects, independent tests are highly welcome. Here is ...

Message posted on the December 13th, 2010 - 2:00 AM ET

[PATCH 00/13] IO-less dirty throttling v2

Andrew, This is a revised subset of "[RFC] soft and dynamic dirty throttling limits" <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/52966>. The basic idea is to introduce a small region under the bdi dirty threshold. The task will ...

Message posted on the November 16th, 2010 - 11:40 PM ET

[PATCH 00/13] IO-less dirty throttling

Andrew, This is a revised subset of "[RFC] soft and dynamic dirty throttling limits" <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/52966>. The basic idea is to introduce a small region under the bdi dirty threshold. The task will ...

Message posted on the November 16th, 2010 - 11:20 PM ET

[PATCH 00/27] IO-less dirty throttling v6

Andrew, The v6 patchset is a major rework of the unreleased v5 and tested to run OK for all the test cases, including - ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs, nfs - 256M, 512M, 3G, 16G, 64G memory sizes and different dirty ratios - single HDD, SSD, hybrid ...

Message posted on the March 3rd, 2011 - 3:30 AM ET

[PATCH 0/5] IO-less dirty throttling v8

Hi all, The _core_ bits of the IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). Heavily simplified and re-commented to make it easier to review. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git dirty-throttling-v8 Only the bare minimal algorithms ...

Message posted on the August 6th, 2011 - 8:30 AM ET

[PATCH 00/12] IO-less dirty throttling v7

Andrew, This revision undergoes a number of simplifications, cleanups and fixes. Independent patches are separated out. The core patches (07, 08) now have easier to understand changelog. Detailed rationals can be found in patch 08. In response to ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2011 - 10:10 AM ET

[PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11

Hi, Finally, the complete IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). NFS is observed to perform better or worse depending on the memory size. Otherwise the added patches can address all known regressions. ...

Message posted on the September 3rd, 2011 - 10:20 PM ET

[PATCH 00/11] IO-less dirty throttling v12

Hi, This is the minimal IO-less balance_dirty_pages() changes that are expected to be regression free (well, except for NFS). git://github.com/fengguang/linux.git dirty-throttling-v12 Tests results will be posted in a separate email. Changes ...

Message posted on the October 3rd, 2011 - 9:50 AM ET

[PATCH 00/10] IO-less dirty throttling v10

Hi, The core algorithms for IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git dirty-throttling-v10 Changes since v9: - a lot of renames and comment/changelog rework, again - seperate out the ...

Message posted on the August 26th, 2011 - 7:50 AM ET

[PATCH 0/5] IO-less dirty throttling v9

Hi, The core bits of the IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git dirty-throttling-v9 Changes since v8: - a lot of renames and comment/changelog rework - use 3rd order polynomial as the ...

Message posted on the August 15th, 2011 - 11:40 PM ET

[PATCH 0/7] dirty throttling bits for 3.3 (v2)

Hi, There are now 7 dirty throttling improvements targeting for Linux 3.3. Changes since v1: - added many comments and enriched changelog - rename dirty_leaks to dirty_throttle_leaks - add the btrfs accounting fix for sub-page writes - account ...

Message posted on the November 28th, 2011 - 9:20 AM ET

[PATCH 0/5] dirty throttling bits for 3.3

Hi, I'd like to push these 5 dirty throttling improvements to linux-next, targeting for inclusion in Linux 3.3. It's a comfortably small series for review ;) And there are no changes since the last v12 post. (I went through them once again but ...

Message posted on the November 21st, 2011 - 8:20 AM ET