Hello, Jan. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > It looks OK although I find using total write bandwidth to detect whether > any wb has any dirty IO rather hacky. Frankly I'd prefer to just iterate > all wbs from bdi_has_dirty_io() since that isn't performance critical > and we iterate all wbs in those paths anyway... Hmm? When there are wb's to write out, maybe walking it twice isn't too bad; however, the problem, I think, is when there's nothing to do. When there are enough number of devices and cgroups, we end up making what used to be a trivial operation something which can be computationally significant. ie. userland behaviors which used to be completely fine because things are very cheap when there's nothing to do can become scalability liabilities. I don't think it's highly likely that this would become a visible issue but I feel pretty uneasy about making O(1) noops O(N), especially given that we need to maintain per-bdi fraction anyway. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>