On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:16:36AM +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 09:53 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > The solution is to charge the pages dirtied by the exited gcc to the > > other random gcc/dd instances. > > random dirtying task, seeing it lacks a !strcmp(t->comm, "gcc") || ! > strcmp(t->comm, "dd") clause. OK. > > It sounds not perfect, however should > > behave good enough in practice. > > Seeing as that throttled tasks aren't actually running so those that are > running are more likely to pick it up and get throttled, therefore > promoting an equal spread.. ? Exactly. Let me write that into changelog :) 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
