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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] writeback: dirty position control
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:16:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110824031603.GA30873@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817202414.GK9959@quack.suse.cz>

> > > > +	x_intercept = setpoint + 2 * span;
>    ^^ BTW, why do you have 2*span here? It can result in x_intercept being
> ~3*bdi_thresh... So maybe you should use bdi_thresh/2 in the computation of
> span?

OK, I'll follow your suggestion to use

        span = 8 * write_bw, for single bdi case 
        span = bdi_thresh, for JBOD case
        x_intercept = setpoint + span;

It does make sense to squeeze the bdi_dirty fluctuation range a bit by
doubling span and making the control line more sharp.

Thanks,
Fengguang

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16  2:20 [PATCH 0/5] IO-less dirty throttling v9 Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  2:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  2:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] writeback: dirty position control Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16 19:41   ` Jan Kara
2011-08-17 13:23     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-17 13:49       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-17 20:24       ` Jan Kara
2011-08-18  4:18         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-18  4:41           ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-18 19:16           ` Jan Kara
2011-08-24  3:16         ` Wu Fengguang [this message]
2011-08-19  2:53   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-19  3:25     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  2:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] writeback: dirty rate control Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  2:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] writeback: per task dirty rate limit Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  7:17   ` Andrea Righi
2011-08-16  7:22     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-16  2:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() Wu Fengguang
2011-08-19  2:06   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-19  2:54     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-19 19:00       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-21  3:46         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-22 17:22           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-23  1:07             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-23  3:53               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-23 13:53               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-24  3:09                 ` Wu Fengguang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-08-06  8:44 [PATCH 0/5] IO-less dirty throttling v8 Wu Fengguang
2011-08-06  8:44 ` [PATCH 2/5] writeback: dirty position control Wu Fengguang
2011-08-08 13:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-08 14:11     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-08 14:31       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-08 22:47         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-09  9:31           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-10 12:28             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-08 14:41       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-08 23:05         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-09 10:32           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-09 17:20           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-10 22:34             ` Jan Kara
2011-08-11  2:29               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-11 11:14                 ` Jan Kara
2011-08-16  8:35                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12 13:19             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-10 21:40           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-16  8:55             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-11 22:56           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12  2:43             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12  3:18               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12  5:45               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12  9:45                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12 11:07                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12 12:17                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12  9:47               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12 11:11                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12 12:54           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12 12:59             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-12 13:08               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12 13:04           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-12 14:20             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-22 15:38               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-23  3:40                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-23 10:01                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-23 14:15                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-23 17:47                       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-24  0:12                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-24 16:12                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26  0:18                             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26  9:04                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26 10:04                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26 10:42                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26 10:52                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26 11:26                                   ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26 12:11                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26 12:20                                       ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26 13:13                                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26 13:18                                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26 13:24                                             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-24 18:00                           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-25  3:19                             ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-25 22:20                               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-26  1:56                                 ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-26  8:56                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-26  9:53                                     ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-29 13:12                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-29 13:37                               ` Wu Fengguang
2011-09-02 12:16                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-06 12:40                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-24 15:57                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-08-25  5:30                         ` Wu Fengguang
2011-08-23 14:36                     ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-09  2:08   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-08-16  8:59     ` Wu Fengguang

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