On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:30:26PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:33:20PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > Ok, I was under the mistaken impression that filesystems wanted to be > > given ranges of pages where possible. Considering that there has been no > > reaction to the patch in question from the filesystem people cc'd, I'll > > drop the problem for now. > > Yes, we'd prefer them if possible. Then again we'd really prefer to > get as much I/O as possible from the flusher threads, and not kswapd. > Ok, for the moment I'll put it on the maybe pile and drop it from the series. We can revisit if a use is found for it and we're happy that there wasn't some other bug leaving dirty pages on the LRU for too long. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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>