From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Do not call ->writepage[s] from direct reclaim and use a_ops->writepages() where possible Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:30:26 -0400 Message-ID: <20100611163026.GD24707@infradead.org> References: <1275987745-21708-1-git-send-email-mel@csn.ul.ie> <20100610225749.c8cc3bc3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100611123320.GA8798@csn.ul.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 To: Mel Gorman Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100611123320.GA8798@csn.ul.ie> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org