Re: [PATCH] Improve buffered streaming write ordering

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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:48:56 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > For a 4.5GB streaming buffered write, this printk inside
> > ext4_da_writepage shows up 37,2429 times in /var/log/messages.
> > 
> 
> Part of that can happen due to shrink_page_list -> pageout -> writepagee
> call back with lots of unallocated buffer_heads(blocks).

That workload shouldn't be using that code path much at all.  It's
supposed to be the case that pdflush and balance_dirty_pages() do most
of the writeback work.

And that _used_ to be the case, but we broke it.  It happened several
years ago and I wasn't able to provoke anyone into finding out why. 
iirc the XFS guys noticed it because their throughput was fairly badly
affected.

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