Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760695AbXJEJXg (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:23:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753864AbXJEJX3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:23:29 -0400 Received: from mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu ([212.108.200.82]:42740 "EHLO mail-gw3.sa.ew.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbXJEJX2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 05:23:28 -0400 To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <1191572520.22357.42.camel@twins> (message from Peter Zijlstra on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:22:00 +0200) Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove throttle_vm_writeout() References: <20071004145640.18ced770.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071004160941.e0c0c7e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071004164801.d8478727.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071004174851.b34a3220.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1191572520.22357.42.camel@twins> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:22:56 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 524 Lines: 15 > So how do we end up with more writeback pages than that? should we teach > pdflush about these limits as well? Ugh. I think we should rather fix vmscan to not spin when all pages of a zone are already under writeout. Which is the _real_ problem, according to Andrew. 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/