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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 15/18] writeback: charge leaked page dirties to active tasks
    On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:16:36AM +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
    > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
    > > The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the
    > > other random gcc/dd instances.
    >
    > random dirtying task, seeing it lacks a !strcmp(t->comm, "gcc") || !
    > strcmp(t->comm, "dd") clause.

    OK.

    > > It sounds not perfect, however should
    > > behave good enough in practice.
    >
    > Seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are
    > running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore
    > promoting an equal spread.. ?

    Exactly. Let me write that into changelog :)

    Thanks,
    Fengguang


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