Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:29:38 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/7] writeback: use 64MB MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES |
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On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:51:46PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > + * The maximum number of pages to writeout in a single periodic/background > + * writeback operation. 64MB means I_SYNC may be hold for up to 1 second. > + * This is not a big problem since we normally do kind of trylock on I_SYNC > + * for non-data-integrity writes. Userspace tasks doing throttled writeback > + * do not use this value.
What's your justification for using 64MB? Where are you getting 1 second from? On a fast RAID array 64MB can be written in much less than 1 second.
More generally, I assume your patches conflict with Jens' per-bdi patches?
- Ted
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