On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:27:23AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > It is preferable that as few dirty pages are dispatched for cleaning from > the page reclaim path. When dirty pages are encountered by page reclaim, > this patch marks the inodes that they should be dispatched immediately. When > the background flusher runs, it moves such inodes immediately to the dispatch > queue regardless of inode age. Thus whole thing looks rather hacky to me. Does it really give a large enough benefit to be worth all the hacks? -- 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