Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759589Ab0FKSRo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:17:44 -0400 Received: from gir.skynet.ie ([193.1.99.77]:51160 "EHLO gir.skynet.ie" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757508Ab0FKSRn (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:17:43 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:17:24 +0100 From: Mel Gorman To: Christoph Hellwig 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: <20100611181724.GC9946@csn.ul.ie> References: <1275987745-21708-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100610225749.c8cc3bc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100611123320.GA8798@csn.ul.ie> <20100611163026.GD24707@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100611163026.GD24707@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 24 On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:30:26PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. > Ok, for the moment I'll put it on the maybe pile and drop it from the series. We can revisit if a use is found for it and we're happy that there wasn't some other bug leaving dirty pages on the LRU for too long. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab -- 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/