Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757532AbXFUQya (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755136AbXFUQyX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:23 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1708 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755030AbXFUQyW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:22 -0400 Message-ID: <467AAD3C.8020200@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:54:20 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra , davej@redhat.com, tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Change in default vm_dirty_ratio References: <1182201271.4883.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070618164711.9de1c38e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070620042434.GC12096@redhat.com> <20070619214407.dfff0ca6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1182328536.21117.24.camel@twins> <20070620015826.03f1d71a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070620015826.03f1d71a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 16 Andrew Morton wrote: > > What do we actually want the kernel to *do*? Stated in terms of "when the > dirty memory state is A, do B" and "when userspace does C, the kernel should > do D". When we have dirty pages awaiting write-out, and the write-out device is completely idle, then we should be writing them out. That's the easy bit taken care of. ;) - 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/