Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757055Ab0FKQac (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:30:32 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50851 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755473Ab0FKQaa (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:30:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:30:26 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mel Gorman Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Chinner , Chris Mason , Nick Piggin , Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible Message-ID: <20100611163026.GD24707@infradead.org> References: <1275987745-21708-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100610225749.c8cc3bc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100611123320.GA8798@csn.ul.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100611123320.GA8798@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) 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: 695 Lines: 14 On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:33:20PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > Ok, I was under the mistaken impression that filesystems wanted to be > given ranges of pages where possible. Considering that there has been no > reaction to the patch in question from the filesystem people cc'd, I'll > drop the problem for now. Yes, we'd prefer them if possible. Then again we'd really prefer to get as much I/O as possible from the flusher threads, and not kswapd. -- 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/