On 10/02/2007 09:27 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:13:27PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > [...] >> One more serious problem is, a busy writer could also drain all the >> dirty pages and make (nr_writeback == dirty_limit+1MB). In that case, >> I suspect the light-load sdb writer still have good chance to >> make progress(need confirmation). > > Well it seems to be a really tricky issue without knowing the per-bdi > numbers. Maybe we could just encourage users to upgrade to 2.6.24... > Yeah, and if that doesn't work there's always 2.6.25... :/ _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
