Re: [RFC PATCH v4 03/17] mm: Prepare balance_dirty_pages() for async buffered writes

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On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 11:36:32AM -0700, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> 
> If balance_dirty_pages() gets called for async buffered write, we don't
> want to wait. Instead we need to indicate to the caller that throttling
> is needed so that it can stop writing and offload the rest of the write
> to a context that can block.

I don't tink this really makes sense without the next patch, so I'd
suggest to merge the two.




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