On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:28:06PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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.. Ah OK. I'm using latest linux-next and expected his patches to be there.. Thanks, Fengguang -- 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
