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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Server: rspam08 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 003651C0013 X-Stat-Signature: 58tocat9mzgkhgyr56pwtppooqj6yz1w X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1756133211-171225 X-HE-Meta: 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 1kJcGjsj czO9D3NIF5JPPND3S8BO2z5DMBCu3XpvjRx3Eed+/shI6rR0= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 25.08.25 14:29, wangyufei wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We've been interested in this patch about parallelizing writeback [1] > and have been following its discussion and development. Our testing in > several application scenarios on mobile devices has shown significant > performance improvements. > > Currently, we're focusing on how the number of writeback contexts impacts > the performance on different filesystems and storage workloads. We noticed > the previous discussion about making the number of writeback contexts an > opt-in configuration to adapt to different filesystems [2]. Currently, it > can only be set via a sysfs interface at system initialization. We'd like > to discuss the possibility of supporting dynamic runtime configuration of > the number of writeback contexts. > > We have developed a mechanism that allows the number of writeback contexts > to be configured at runtime via a sysfs interface. To configure, use: > echo > /sys/class/bdi//nwritebacks. What's the target use case for updating it dynamically? If it's mostly for debugging/testing (find out what works, what doesn't), it might better go into debugfs or just carried out of tree. If it's about setting sane default based on specific filesystems, maybe it could be optimized from within the kernel, without the need to expose this to an admin? -- Cheers David / dhildenb