From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] mm: filemap: pass __GFP_WRITE from grab_cache_page_write_begin()
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:09:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921140935.GF22516@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920184034.GA27353@infradead.org>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:34PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:38:03PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > On 09/20/2011 10:25 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > >In addition to regular write shouldn't __do_fault and do_wp_page also
> > >calls this if they are called on file backed mappings?
> >
> > Probably not do_wp_page since it always creates an
> > anonymous page, which are not very relevant to the
> > dirty page cache accounting.
>
> Well, it doesn't always - but for the case where it doesn't we
> do not allocate a new page at all so you're right in the end :)
I think it could be useful to annotate write-fault allocations in
filemap_fault(), but these pages are mostly allocated in the readahead
code, so this could turn into a more invasive project.
It can be done incrementally, however, the series as it stands does
not require it to be useful.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-20 13:45 [patch 0/4] 50% faster writing to your USB drive!* Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 1/4] mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 15:21 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-22 9:03 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-22 10:54 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-23 14:38 ` [patch 1/4 v2] " Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 4:55 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 7:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 18:35 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 2/4] mm: writeback: distribute write pages across allowable zones Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 18:36 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 11:04 ` Shaohua Li
2011-09-21 13:35 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-21 14:30 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-21 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-22 8:52 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-23 14:41 ` [patch 1/2/4] mm: writeback: cleanups in preparation for per-zone dirty limits Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 5:57 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-23 14:42 ` [patch 2/2/4] mm: try to distribute dirty pages fairly across zones Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 5:56 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 7:11 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-28 18:09 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-28 9:36 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 3/4] mm: filemap: pass __GFP_WRITE from grab_cache_page_write_begin() Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 18:38 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 14:09 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2011-09-20 18:40 ` Rik van Riel
2011-09-21 14:34 ` Mel Gorman
2011-09-28 6:02 ` Minchan Kim
2011-09-20 13:45 ` [patch 4/4] Btrfs: pass __GFP_WRITE for buffered write page allocations Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 13:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 14:09 ` Josef Bacik
2011-09-20 14:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-09-20 18:41 ` Rik van Riel
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