Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268160AbTGIKdC (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 06:33:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268172AbTGIKdB (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 06:33:01 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:65512 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268160AbTGIKbz (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2003 06:31:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:46:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Nikita Danilov Cc: Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2/5 VM changes: skip-writepage.patch Message-Id: <20030709034654.53172638.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16139.61796.951198.414088@laputa.namesys.com> References: <16139.54921.640901.797268@laputa.namesys.com> <20030709031242.14e89af6.akpm@osdl.org> <16139.61796.951198.414088@laputa.namesys.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 630 Lines: 14 Nikita Danilov wrote: > > By the way, have you noted that patch changes wbc.nonblocking to be 0, > if called from kswapd or pdflush, what do you think? pdflush isn't likely to enter direct reclaim much, but it is important that pdflush not block on request queues. We want a single pdflush thread to be able to keep a large number of requests queues saturated. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/