From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, david@fromorbit.com, hch@lst.de,
axboe@kernel.dk, Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:46:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C6DFA78.10800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820032506.GA6662@localhost>
On 08/19/2010 11:25 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> The dirty_ratio was silently limited to>= 5%. This is not a user
> expected behavior. Let's rip it.
>
> It's not likely the user space will depend on the old behavior.
> So the risk of breaking user space is very low.
>
> CC: Jan Kara<jack@suse.cz>
> CC: Neil Brown<neilb@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-20 3:25 [PATCH] writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio Wu Fengguang
2010-08-20 3:46 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2010-08-20 4:13 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-20 5:50 ` Con Kolivas
2010-08-20 5:56 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-23 4:42 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-23 6:23 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-23 6:30 ` Con Kolivas
2010-08-23 7:15 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-24 0:00 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
[not found] ` <201008241620.54048.kernel@kolivas.org>
[not found] ` <20100824071440.GA14598@localhost>
[not found] ` <201008251840.00532.kernel@kolivas.org>
2010-08-26 1:29 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-26 1:36 ` Neil Brown
2010-08-26 4:22 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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2010-08-27 10:36 Wu Fengguang
2010-08-27 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-27 13:47 ` Rik van Riel
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