Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:59:09 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][5/?] count writeback pages in nr_scanned |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: > > But I dislike code that works by luck,
yup, it is code which works by luck. And it's a bit inaccurate - there is potential for (small) further latency improvement in there.
But we do need to watch the CPU consumption in there - end_page_writeback() already figures fairly high sometimes.
> and sure I could demonstrate it > if I bothered to write an artificial testcase on simulated hardware.
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