On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:47:09PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi, > > I've revived my patches to implement livelock avoidance for data integrity > writes. Due to some concerns whether tagging of pages before writeout cannot > be too costly to use for WB_SYNC_NONE mode (where we stop after nr_to_write > pages) I've changed the patch to use page tagging only in WB_SYNC_ALL mode > where we are sure that we write out all the tagged pages. Later, we can think > about using tagging for livelock avoidance for WB_SYNC_NONE mode as well... Hmm what concerns? Do you have any numbers? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>