Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764596AbXHCWW0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:22:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763782AbXHCWWT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:22:19 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:33664 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762605AbXHCWWT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 18:22:19 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:21:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Peter Zijlstra cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, yingchao.zhou@gmail.com, richard@rsk.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8 In-Reply-To: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> Message-ID: References: <20070803123712.987126000@chello.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 22 On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three > issues: > 1) inter device starvation > 2) stacked device deadlocks > 3) inter process starvation Ok, the patches certainly look pretty enough, and you fixed the only thing I complained about last time (naming), so as far as I'm concerned it's now just a matter of whether it *works* or not. I guess being in -mm will help somewhat, but it would be good to have people with several disks etc actively test this out. Linus - 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/