Re: [PATCH 1/7] writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if workallocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Sep 14 2009 - 08:39:36 EST


On Mon, Sep 14 2009, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 14-09-09 11:36:28, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Since it's an opportunistic writeback and not a data integrity action,
> > don't punt to blocking writeback. Just wakeup the thread and it will
> > flush old data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Looks good. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> BTW, don't we miss Christoph's Signed-off-by?

We do, he didn't include one.

--
Jens Axboe

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