From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761127Ab0HFKOr (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:14:47 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:59141 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760555Ab0HFKOp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:14:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/13] writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholds From: Peter Zijlstra To: Wu Fengguang Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Dave Chinner , Christoph Hellwig , Mel Gorman , Chris Mason , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" In-Reply-To: <20100805162432.963007535@intel.com> References: <20100805161051.501816677@intel.com> <20100805162432.963007535@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:14:10 +0200 Message-ID: <1281089650.1947.404.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 00:10 +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > plain text document attachment (writeback-less-bdi-calc.patch) > Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(), > so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background > threshold (which is the normal state for most systems). > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang