23 Jul, 2012

1 commit

  • This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
    the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

    The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
    'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
    writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back. But the
    problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
    5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
    file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
    '->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
    file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
    it together with the kernel thread.

    Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

    Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Artem Bityutskiy
     

26 Jul, 2008

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17 Oct, 2007

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02 Aug, 2005

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17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds