[PATCH 0/7] Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim v3

Mel Gorman mgorman at suse.de
Wed Aug 10 06:15:47 CDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 07:00:56AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:47:13AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >   o Dropped btrfs warning when filesystems are called from direct
> >     reclaim. The fallback method for migration looks indistinguishable
> >     from direct reclaim.
> 
> The right fix is to simply remove that fallback, possibly in combination
> with implementating real migration support for btrfs.
> 

Removing the fallback entirely is overkill as proper migration support
is not going to get 100% coverage but I agree that btrfs should have
real migration support. I didn't think it belonged in this series
though.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs




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