From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36FFA6B004F for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:54:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:54:41 -0400 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] vm: Add an tuning knob for vm.max_writeback_pages Message-ID: <20090831155441.GB23535@mit.edu> References: <1251600858-21294-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> <20090830165229.GA5189@infradead.org> <20090830181731.GA20822@mit.edu> <20090830222710.GA9938@infradead.org> <20090831030815.GD20822@mit.edu> <20090831102909.GS12579@kernel.dk> <20090831104748.GT12579@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090831104748.GT12579@kernel.dk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ext4 Developers List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, chris.mason@oracle.com List-ID: At the risk of asking a stupid question, what *is* range_cyclic and what is it trying to do? I've been looking at the code and am I'm getting myself very confused about what the code is trying to do and what was its original intent. - Ted -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org