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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] writeback: throttle buffered writeback
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:12:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49twjyb7cb.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458669320-6819-7-git-send-email-axboe@fb.com> (Jens Axboe's message of "Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:55:20 -0600")

Hi, Jens,

Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> writes:

> If the device has write back caching, 'wb_cache_delay' delays by
> this amount of usecs when a write completes before allowing more.

What's the reason behind that?

Thanks!
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-22 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-22 17:55 [PATCHSET][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] block: ensure we don't truncate top bits of the request command flags Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 18:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-22 19:01     ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-25  2:08       ` Mike Christie
2016-03-25  4:18         ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] writeback: wb_start_writeback() should use WB_SYNC_ALL for WB_REASON_SYNC Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:34   ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 21:40     ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:51       ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 22:04       ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:07         ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] block: add ability to flag write back caching on a device Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 18:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-03-22 18:59     ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] sd: inform block layer of write cache state Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] NVMe: " Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 17:55 ` [PATCH 6/6] writeback: throttle buffered writeback Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 20:12   ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2016-03-22 20:19     ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 20:27       ` Jeff Moyer
2016-03-22 21:30       ` Shaohua Li
2016-03-22 21:35         ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 21:51 ` [PATCHSET][RFC] Make background writeback not suck Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:03   ` Jens Axboe
2016-03-22 22:31     ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-22 22:57       ` Jens Axboe

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