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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb
On Wed, Sep 09 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:37:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > They are there, have been for months! But I think Christoph is a little
> > confused, we'll still do writeback inline from balance_dirty_pages(). It
> > does writeback_inodes_wbc(), which does not schedule async writeout.
>
> Hmm, at least the version I have applied right now calls
> bdi_start_writeback and not writeback_inodes_wbc from
> balance_dirty_pages. But you sent our another spin or two afer those,
> so maybe it changed again.

Yes, that's the very end check, the old code does the same. Further up
it does writeback_inodes_wbc() if we are over the threshold.

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Jens Axboe



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