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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/13] writeback: per-task rate limit on balance_dirty_pages()
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    On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:27 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
    > + if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause ||
    > + bdi->dirty_exceeded)) {
    > + balance_dirty_pages(mapping, current->nr_dirtied);
    > + current->nr_dirtied = 0;
    > }

    Was it a conscious choice to use
    current->nr_dirtied = 0
    over
    current->nr_dirtied -= current->nr_dirtied_pause
    ?

    The former will cause a drift in pause times due to truncation of the
    excess.


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