Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:24:05 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold |
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05:10PM +0800, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > Treat bdi_start_writeback(0) as a special request to do background write, > > and stop such work when we are below the background dirty threshold. > > > > Also simplify the (nr_pages <= 0) checks. Since we already pass in > > nr_pages=LONG_MAX for WB_SYNC_ALL and background writes, we don't > > need to worry about it being decreased to zero. > > Good cleanup! Do you want me to collect these fixes, or how shall we > handle this?
Thanks. I'm feeling OK with these patches(except the last one) as well as Jan's busy loop fixing patch. Can you pull them to your tree?
Thanks, Fengguang
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