On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 07:45:30PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 13:01:30 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 04:16:52AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 01:19:43AM +0900, Manjong Lee wrote: > > > > Because when sdcard is removed, bdi_min_ratio value will remain. > > > > Currently, the only way to reset bdi_ min_ratio is to reboot. > > > > > > But bdis that are unregistered are never re-registered. What is > > > the problem you're trying to solve? > > > > The global bdi_min_ratio needs to be adjusted. See > > bdi_set_min_ratio() in mm/page-writeback.c. > > I added cc:stable to this and tweaked the comment & coding style a bit: Definitely improvements on that front. I don't know the BDI code particularly well, and the implementation of bdi_set_min_ratio() confuses me, so I can't say whether the original patch is clearly correct or not.