On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:40:26PM +0800, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:34:23PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > If you plan to keep wakeup_flusher_threads(), a simpler form may be
> > > sufficient, eg.
> > >
> > > laptop_mode ? 0 : (nr_dirty * 16)
> >
> > This number is not sensitive because the writeback code may well round
> > it up to some more IO efficient value (currently 4MB). AFAIK the
> > nr_pages parameters passed by all existing flusher callers are some
> > rule-of-thumb value, and far from being an exact number.
> >
>
> I get that it's a rule of thumb but decided I would still pass in some value
> related to nr_dirty that was bounded in some manner.
> Currently, that bound is 4MB but maybe it should have been bound to
> MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES (which is 4MB for x86, but could be anything
> depending on the base page size).
I see your worry about much bigger page size making
vmscan batch size > writeback batch size
and it's a legitimate worry.
Thanks,
Fengguang
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