On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Maxim V. Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c >> index 0713bfb..c47bcd4 100644 >> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c >> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c >> @@ -1235,7 +1235,8 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space >> *mapping, >> */ >> nr_reclaimable = global_page_state(NR_FILE_DIRTY) + >> >> global_page_state(NR_UNSTABLE_NFS); >> - nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + >> global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK); >> + nr_dirty = nr_reclaimable + >> global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK) + >> + global_page_state(NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP); >> global_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh); > > > Please drop this patch. As we discussed in LSF/MM, the fix above is correct, > but it's not enough: we also need to ensure disregard of NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP > when balance_dirty_pages() is called from fuse daemon. I'll send a separate > patch-set soon. Please elaborate. From a technical perspective "fuse daemon" is very hard to define, so anything that relies on whether something came from the fuse daemon or not is conceptually broken. Thanks, Miklos -- 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
