Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:20:56 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au,
       linux-mm@kvack.org, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 5/8] Make writeout during reclaim cpuset aware
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Andi wrote:
> Is there a reason this can't be just done by node, ignoring the cpusets?

This suggestion doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

We're looking to see if a task has dirtied most of the
pages in the nodes it is allowed to use.  If it has, then
we want to start pushing pages to the disk harder, and
slowing down the tasks writes.

What would it mean to do this per-node?  And why would
that be better?

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                  Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
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