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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] mm: implement write-behind policy for sequential file writes
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On 9/20/19 5:10 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 4:05 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Now, I hear you say "those are so small these days that it doesn't
>> matter". And maybe you're right. But particularly for slow media,
>> triggering good streaming write behavior has been a problem in the
>> past.
>
> Which reminds me: the writebehind trigger should likely be tied to the
> estimate of the bdi write speed.
>
> We _do_ have that avg_write_bandwidth thing in the bdi_writeback
> structure, it sounds like a potentially good idea to try to use that
> to estimate when to do writebehind.
>
> No?

I really like the feature, and agree it should be tied to the bdi write
speed. How about just making the tunable acceptable time of write behind
dirty? Eg if write_behind_msec is 1000, allow 1s of pending dirty before
starting writbeack.

--
Jens Axboe

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