On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 14:29, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's the same as limiting the amount of dirty metadata. Exactly. We limit dirty data for a reason. That was what I said, and that was my point. Excessive dirty data is a huge latency concern. It's a latency concern not just for journal replay, it's a latency concern for anybody who then does a "sync" or whatever. Linus