From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767161AbXDERrj (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:47:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767035AbXDERri (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:47:38 -0400 Received: from amsfep20-int.chello.nl ([62.179.120.15]:46773 "EHLO amsfep20-int.chello.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767161AbXDERrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:47:37 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] per device dirty throttling -v3 From: Peter Zijlstra To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, neilb@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com, tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com, nikita@clusterfs.com In-Reply-To: <20070405174209.498059336@programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20070405174209.498059336@programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:47:33 +0200 Message-Id: <1175795253.6483.110.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Don't worry, it's me! Seems I forgot to edit the From field :-( On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:42 +0200, root@programming.kicks-ass.net wrote: > Against 2.6.21-rc5-mm4 without: > per-backing_dev-dirty-and-writeback-page-accounting.patch > > This series implements BDI independent dirty limits and congestion control. > > This should solve several problems we currently have in this area: > > - mutual interference starvation (for any number of BDIs), and > - deadlocks with stacked BDIs (loop and FUSE). > > All the fancy new congestion code has been compile and boot tested, but > not much more. I'm posting to get feedback on the ideas. > >