Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:51:37 -0400 | | From | Theodore Tso <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:45:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The third potential solution we can try doing is to make some tuning > > adjustments to the VM so that we start pushing out these data blocks > > much more aggressively out to the disk. > > Yes. but at least one problem is, as mentioned, that when the VM calls > writepage[s]() to start async writeback, many filesystems do seem to just > _block_ on it.
Um, no, ext3 shouldn't block on writepage(). Since it doesn't do delayed allocation, it should always be able to push out a dirty page to the disk.
- Ted
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