Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: regression in page writeback | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:23:31 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:19 +0100, Richard Kennedy wrote: > > I am concerned that the background writeout no longer stops when it > reaches the background threshold, as balance_dirty_pages requests all > dirty pages to be written. No doubt this is good for large linear writes > but what about more random write workloads?
I've not had time to look over the current code, but write-out not stopping on reaching background threshold is a definite bug and needs to get fixed.
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