Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752287Ab0HTDq3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:46:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22372 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751166Ab0HTDqZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:46:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4C6DFA78.10800@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:46:00 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wu Fengguang CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, david@fromorbit.com, hch@lst.de, axboe@kernel.dk, Michael Rubin , Jan Kara , Neil Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio References: <20100820032506.GA6662@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20100820032506.GA6662@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 20 On 08/19/2010 11:25 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > The dirty_ratio was silently limited to>= 5%. This is not a user > expected behavior. Let's rip it. > > It's not likely the user space will depend on the old behavior. > So the risk of breaking user space is very low. > > CC: Jan Kara > CC: Neil Brown > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- 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/