From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
"hannes@cmpxchg.org" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 21:35:20 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120301133520.GA7202@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229135156.GA31106@localhost>
> However the other type of works, if ever they come, can still block us
> for long time. Will need a proper way to guarantee fairness.
The simplistic way around this may be to refuse to queue new pageout
works when found other type of works in the queue. Then vmscan will
fall back to pageout(). It's rare condition anyway and hardly deserves
a comprehensive fairness scheme.
Thanks,
Fengguang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 14:00 [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] pageout work and dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 1/9] memcg: add page_cgroup flags for dirty page tracking Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 0:50 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-04 1:29 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/9] memcg: add dirty page accounting infrastructure Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 0:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] memcg: add kernel calls for memcg dirty page stats Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 1:10 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] memcg: dirty page accounting support routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 15:15 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 1:15 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] writeback: introduce the pageout work Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-29 2:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 11:04 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 11:41 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:50 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 19:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-03 13:25 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-07 5:40 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 19:42 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 21:15 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-01 21:22 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-01 12:36 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 16:38 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02 4:48 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 9:59 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-02 10:39 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-03 13:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-03 14:27 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-04 11:13 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-07 15:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 7:31 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-03-09 9:51 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-09 10:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 16:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 21:11 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 12:36 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-12 14:02 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-12 14:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-03-09 10:15 ` Jan Kara
2012-03-09 15:10 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-29 13:51 ` [PATCH v2 " Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 13:35 ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2012-03-02 6:22 ` [PATCH v3 " Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] vmscan: dirty reclaim throttling Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] mm: pass __GFP_WRITE to memcg charge and reclaim routines Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: dont set __GFP_WRITE on ramfs/sysfs writes Fengguang Wu
2012-03-01 10:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2012-03-01 10:30 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-02-28 14:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: debug vmscan waits Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 6:59 ` [RFC PATCH] mm: don't treat anonymous pages as dirtyable pages Fengguang Wu
2012-03-02 7:18 ` Fengguang Wu
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