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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dgc@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:03:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174816995.5149.4.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HVECv-0006bU-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse
> with dirty balancing.  David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi
> counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account
> the number of pages under writeback, as they will be limited by the
> queue anyway.
> 

Please have a look at this:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-24 21:55 [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages() Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-24 21:57 ` [patch 2/3] remove throttle_vm_writeout() Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-25 23:41   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26  8:35     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-24 21:58 ` [patch 3/3] balance dirty pages from loop device Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-25 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-03-25 11:12   ` [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages() Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-25 11:34     ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-25 11:50       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-25 20:41         ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-25 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26  8:26   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-26  9:01     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26  9:20       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-26  9:32         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26  9:48           ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-26  9:32       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-03-26 10:08         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26 13:30           ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-03-27  0:30             ` David Chinner
2007-03-27  0:23       ` David Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-03 18:40 Kris Corwin

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