On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 at 16:15, Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - You suggested yourself that timeouts might be a (non-ideal) > solution to avoid page copies on writeback > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAJfpegt_mEYOeeTo2bWS3iJfC38t5bf29mzrxK68dhMptrgamg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/raw What I suggested is to copy the original writeback page to a tmp page after a timeout. That's not the same as aborting the request, though the mechanism might be similar. > - Would probably be a solution for this LXCFS issue > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a8d0c5da-6935-4d28-9380-68b84b8e6e72@xxxxxxxxxx/ > (although I don't fully understand the issue there yet) Yeah, we first need to understand what's going on. Thanks, Miklos
