From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] IO-less dirty throttling v2 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:12:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4CECF30D.5050204@redhat.com> References: <20101117042720.033773013@intel.com> <20101117150330.139251f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20101118020640.GS22876@dastard> <20101117180912.38541ca4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dave Chinner , Wu Fengguang , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , "Theodore Ts'o" , Chris Mason , Peter Zijlstra , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Andrew Morton Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101117180912.38541ca4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 11/18/2010 04:09 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > But mainly because we're taking the work accounting away from the user > who caused it and crediting it to the kernel thread instead, and that's > an actively *bad* thing to do. > That's happening more and more with workqueues and kernel threads. We need the ability for a kernel thread (perhaps a workqueue thread) to say "I am doing this on behalf of thread X, please charge any costs I incur (faults, cpu time, whatever) to that thread". -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org