Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On 08/27/2010 06:36 AM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> The dirty_ratio was siliently limited in global_dirty_limits() to>= 5%.
> This is not a user expected behavior. And it's inconsistent with
> calc_period_shift(), which uses the plain vm_dirty_ratio value.
>
> Let's rip the internal bound.
>
> At the same time, fix balance_dirty_pages() to work with the
> dirty_thresh=0 case. This allows applications to proceed when
> dirty+writeback pages are all cleaned.
>
> And ">" fits with the name "exceeded" better than">=" does. Neil
> think it is an aesthetic improvement as well as a functional one :)
>
> CC: Jan Kara<jack@suse.cz>
> CC: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Proposed-by: Con Kolivas<kernel@kolivas.org>
> Reviewed-by: Neil Brown<neilb@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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