Re: [patch 0/7] cpuset writeback throttling

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:23:10PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> This is the revised cpuset writeback throttling patchset posted to LKML 
> on Tuesday, October 27.
> 
> The comments from Peter Zijlstra have been addressed.  His concurrent 
> page cache patchset is not currently in -mm, so we can still serialize 
> updating a struct address_space's dirty_nodes on its tree_lock.  When his 
> patchset is merged, the patch at the end of this message can be used to 
> introduce the necessary synchronization.
> 
> This patchset applies nicely to 2.6.28-rc2-mm1 with the exception of the 
> first patch due to the alloc_inode() refactoring to inode_init_always() in
> e9110864c440736beb484c2c74dedc307168b14e from linux-next and additions to 
> include/linux/cpuset.h from 
> oom-print-triggering-tasks-cpuset-and-mems-allowed.patch (oops :).
> 
> Please consider this for inclusion in the -mm tree.
> 
> A simple way of testing this change is to create a large file that exceeds 
> the amount of memory allocated to a specific cpuset.  Then, mmap and 
> modify the large file (such as in the following program) while running a 
> latency sensitive task in a disjoint cpuset.  Notice the writeout 
> throttling that doesn't interfere with the latency sensitive task.

What sort of validation/regression testing has this been through?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com