Re: R.I.P. pdflush

2012-08-02 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 17:27 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > On 7/25/12 11:11 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > For example, reiserfs deadlocked quickly when I tested it using > > xfstests with resierfs quota support enabled. I spend several days > > trying to fix this, but reiserfs is quite complex and

Re: R.I.P. pdflush

2012-08-02 Thread Jeff Mahoney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/25/12 11:11 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > For example, reiserfs deadlocked quickly when I tested it using > xfstests with resierfs quota support enabled. I spend several days > trying to fix this, but reiserfs is quite complex and I'd say its > lo

R.I.P. pdflush

2012-07-25 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Now that all file-systems have been modified to not use the '->write_super()' superblock method, we can kill the last pdflush leftover - the 'sync_supers' kernel thread. The sync_supers kernel thread does a very simple thing: wake up every 5 seconds (see [1]), iterate over all superblocks in the s