Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751926AbZIIMna (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751494AbZIIMna (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:30 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48942 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750839AbZIIMn3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:28 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jens Axboe Cc: Wu Fengguang , Christoph Hellwig , Chris Mason , Peter Zijlstra , Artem Bityutskiy , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "david@fromorbit.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "jack@suse.cz" , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_mb Message-ID: <20090909124328.GA7747@infradead.org> References: <1252401791-22463-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <1252401791-22463-9-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <4AA633FD.3080006@gmail.com> <1252425983.7746.120.camel@twins> <20090908162936.GA2975@think> <20090909092901.GA24185@localhost> <20090909122805.GA30238@infradead.org> <20090909123223.GB23006@localhost> <20090909123746.GB18599@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090909123746.GB18599@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 736 Lines: 15 On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:37:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > They are there, have been for months! But I think Christoph is a little > confused, we'll still do writeback inline from balance_dirty_pages(). It > does writeback_inodes_wbc(), which does not schedule async writeout. Hmm, at least the version I have applied right now calls bdi_start_writeback and not writeback_inodes_wbc from balance_dirty_pages. But you sent our another spin or two afer those, so maybe it changed again. -- 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/