On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:49 -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > > - How to handle NFS. > > As said above, maybe through network based bdi pressure propagation, > Maybe some other special case mechanism. Unsure but I don't think > this concern should dictate the whole design. NFS has a custom bdi implementation and implements congestion control based on the number of outstanding writeback pages. See fs/nfs/write.c:nfs_{set,end}_page_writeback All !block based filesystems have their own BDI implementation, I'm not sure on the congestion implementation of anything other than NFS though. -- 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