Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:08:07 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/9] writeback: Prioritise dirty inodes encountered by reclaim for background flushing |
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:27:23AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > It is preferable that as few dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from > the page reclaim path. When dirty pages are encountered by page reclaim, > this patch marks the inodes that they should be dispatched immediately. When > the background flusher runs, it moves such inodes immediately to the dispatch > queue regardless of inode age.
Thus whole thing looks rather hacky to me. Does it really give a large enough benefit to be worth all the hacks?
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