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From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make task doing heavy writing killable
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:01:53 +0800
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:41:45PM +0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:29:32PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> > > Can you make balance_dirty_pages(_ratelimited) return an error instead
> > > of opencoding the fatal signal che
> > 
> > Hmm that means a bigger change to the prototype of the _exported_
> > balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr() which impacts out of tree FS... 
> 
> So what?  out of tree fses have always been entirely supported on their
> own, and not a matter for keeping progress back.

OK. Jan, would you do the mm/*.c part in v2? I'll do the various FS
parts.

Thanks,
Fengguang