On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:50 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > Sorry for the confusion, but I mean, filesystems have to limit > nr_writeback (directly or indirectly via the block io queue), > otherwise it either hit nr_dirty to 0 (with the loop), or let > nr_writeback grow out of control (without the loop). OK, it seems we are indeed in agreement. Just making sure ;-) -- 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