Re: [PATCH] improve the performance of large sequential write NFS workloads

Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-22T12:39:25Z

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 13:25 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> I believe that if we had per-bdi dirty_background_ratio and set it low
> for NFS's bdi,

There's two things there I think:
1) bdi_background
2) different background ratios per bdi

1) could be 'trivially' done much like we do bdi_dirty in
get_dirty_limits().

2) I'm not at all convinced we want to go there.