On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:29:01PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > It seems that balance_dirty_pages() is not coupled with MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES. > Instead it uses the much smaller (ratelimit_pages + ratelimit_pages / 2). With Jen's writeback patches applied balance_dirty_pages does not start writeback itself anymore but calls bdi_start_writeback to let the flusher thread do it. it would be good if we do any writeback tuning ontop of these patches.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
