Re: TAKE 977545 - xfsaild causing too many wakeups

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Chinner wrote:
> xfsaild causing too many wakeups
> 
> Idle state is not being detected properly by the xfsaild push code.
> The current idle state is detected by an empty list which may never
> happen with mostly idle filesystem or one using lazy superblock
> counters. A single dirty item in the list that exists beyond the
> push target can result repeated looping attempting to push
> up to the target because it fails to check if the push target
> has been acheived or not.
> 
> Fix by considering a dirty list with everything past the target
> as an idle state and set the timeout appropriately.

Will this go to 2.6.25?

-Eric