Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761070AbXHCHlq (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752283AbXHCHlj (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:41:39 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu ([212.108.200.82]:43508 "EHLO mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751701AbXHCHlj (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:41:39 -0400 To: peterz@infradead.org CC: miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-reply-to: <1186125327.12034.121.camel@twins> (message from Peter Zijlstra on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:15:27 +0200) Subject: Re: per bdi dirty balancing (was Re: kupdate weirdness) References: <20070801141439.ff1c29f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070802121806.d7071ba1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1186091062.11797.34.camel@lappy> <1186125327.12034.121.camel@twins> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:41:10 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 23 > > My plan is to extract the minimal set of features from your patchset, > > that solves the dirty balancing deadlocks and submit them as quickly > > as possible. > > I had hoped to post a new version yesterday, but lets hope for today. Would be cool. > > After that we can look at trying to solve the more ambitious problem > > of the slow vs. fast devices in a way that not only you can understand ;) > > Drad, and here I thought all that documentation in the proportions lib > would have solved that :-( Well, I didn't get that far, and only had a glimpse of the proportions lib. But my hunch is that there's still lots of room for simplification. Miklos - 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/