On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > As it stands, it would be wildly incautious to make a change like > this without first working out why we're pulling so many dirty pages > off the LRU tail, and fixing that. Note that unlike the writepage vs writepages from kswapd which can be fixed by the right tuning this is a black or white issue. Writeback from direct reclaim will kill your stack if the caller happens to be the wrong one, and just making it happen less often is not a fix - it must not happen at all. -- 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
