On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 03:59:35PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 05:33:05AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Johannes, Mel, Wu, > > Am adding Jan Kara as he has been working on writeback efficiency > recently as well. > > > Dave has been stressing some XFS patches of mine that remove the XFS > > internal writeback clustering in favour of using write_cache_pages. > > > > Against what kernel? 2.6.38 was a disaster for reclaim I've been > finding out this week. I don't know about 2.6.38.8. 2.6.39 was better. The patch series is against current 3.0-rc, I assume that's what Dave tested as well. > I'm assuming "test 180" is from xfstests which was not one of the tests > I used previously. To run with 1000 files instead of 100, was the file > "180" simply editted to make it look like this loop instead? Yes. to both questions. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>