Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:58:57 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11 |
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:53:05AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > Hi, > > Finally, the complete IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). NFS is observed to perform > better or worse depending on the memory size. Otherwise the added patches can > address all known regressions. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git dirty-throttling-v11 > (to be updated; currently it contains a pre-release v11)
Fengguang,
is there any chance we could start doing just the IO-less balance_dirty_pages, but not all the subtile other changes? I.e. are the any known issues that make things work than current mainline if we only put in patches 1 to 6? We're getting close to another merge window, and we're still busy trying to figure out all the details of the bandwith estimation. I think we'd have a much more robust tree if we'd first only merge the infrastructure (IO-less balance_dirty_pages()) and then work on the algorithms separately.
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