Hello, On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 04:03:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > + if (i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT) { > > + unsigned long update_intv = > > + min_t(unsigned long, HZ, > > + msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10) / 8); > > An explanation of what's going on here would be helpful. > > Why "* 1.25" and not, umm "* 1.24"? Just because /8 is cheaper. It's likely that a fairly wide range of numbers are okay for the above. I'll add some comment to explain that and why the specific constants are picked. > > +void mem_cgroup_flush_foreign(struct bdi_writeback *wb) > > +{ > > + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css); > > + unsigned long intv = msecs_to_jiffies(dirty_expire_interval * 10); > > Ditto. This is just dirty expiration. If the dirty data has expired, writeback must already be in progress by its bdi_wb, so there's no reason to scheduler foreign writeback. Will add a comment. Thanks. -- tejun