Re: [PATCH] modified segq for 2.5

William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09T22:49:28Z

Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Move them to the inactive list the moment we're done writing
>> them, that is, the moment we move on to the next page. We
>> wouldn't want to move the last page from /var/log/messages to
>> the inactive list all the time ;)

On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:51:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The moment "who" has done writing them? Some writeout
> comes in via shrink_foo() and a ton of writeout comes in
> via balance_dirty_pages(), pdflush, etc.
> Do we need to distinguish between the various contexts?

Ideally some distinction would be nice, even if only to distinguish I/O
demanded to be done directly by the workload from background writeback
and/or readahead.

Cheers,
Bill