From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error)
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:08:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <993160000.978728885@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101051630150.2882-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Friday, January 05, 2001 04:32:50 PM -0200 Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>> > I think we want to remove flush_dirty_buffers() from bdflush.
>> >
>>
>> Whoops. If bdflush doesn't balance the dirty list, who does?
>
> Who marks buffers dirty.
>
> Linus changed mark_buffer_dirty() to use flush_dirty_buffers() in case
> there are too many dirty buffers.
>
Yes, but mark_buffer_dirty only ends up calling flush_dirty_buffers when
balance_dirty_state returns 1. This means the only people balancing are
the procs (not some async daemon), and the writing only starts when we are
over the hard dirty limit.
-chris
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2000-12-15 6:20 ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Linus Torvalds
2000-12-15 7:00 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-15 9:14 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17 0:54 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 12:20 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-15 10:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-15 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-17 1:08 ` Russell Cattelan
2000-12-18 11:44 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-17 2:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-18 11:46 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-12-19 14:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 16:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-19 17:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-19 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-21 23:25 ` [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) Chris Mason
2000-12-22 0:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 2:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-22 0:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 13:56 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 16:45 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-22 19:35 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 15:07 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 19:52 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-22 23:18 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 23:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-23 18:21 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-23 19:25 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-23 15:47 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 0:57 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-26 23:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-27 20:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 20:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 15:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 19:19 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-29 16:03 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-29 16:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2000-12-29 18:33 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-05 15:54 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 15:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 17:49 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-05 17:52 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 19:51 ` Chris Mason
2001-01-05 18:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:29 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 18:43 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-05 20:37 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-05 21:08 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-01-05 18:09 ` Juergen Schneider
2000-12-29 17:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-01-02 15:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-22 1:54 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-22 13:49 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-17 0:51 ` Test12 ll_rw_block error Russell Cattelan
2000-12-17 0:21 ` Russell Cattelan
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