On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:36:04AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > How do you take care of thorottling IO to NFS case in this model? Current > > throttling logic is tied to block device and in case of NFS, there is no > > block device. > > Similarly smb2 gets congestion info (number of "credits") returned from > the server on every response - but not sure why congestion > control is tied to the block device when this would create > problems for network file systems I hope the previous replies answered this. It's about writeback getting pressure from bdi and isn't restricted to block devices. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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