Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:36:04 +0300 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb |
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On 09/09/2009 03:32 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:28:06PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:29:01PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: >>> It seems that balance_dirty_pages() is not coupled with MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES. >>> Instead it uses the much smaller (ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2). >> >> With Jen's writeback patches applied balance_dirty_pages does not start >> writeback itself anymore but calls bdi_start_writeback to let the >> flusher thread do it. >> >> it would be good if we do any writeback tuning ontop of these patches.. > > Ah OK. I'm using latest linux-next and expected his patches to be there..
At least few days ago they were there.
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