From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753493Ab1HISly (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:41:54 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:36250 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753284Ab1HISlw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:41:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() From: Peter Zijlstra To: Vivek Goyal Cc: Wu Fengguang , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jan Kara , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , Greg Thelen , Minchan Kim , Andrea Righi , linux-mm , LKML Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:41:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20110809181543.GG6482@redhat.com> References: <20110806084447.388624428@intel.com> <20110806094527.136636891@intel.com> <20110809181543.GG6482@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.2- Message-ID: <1312915266.1083.75.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 14:15 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > So far bw had pos_ratio as value now it will be replaced with actual > bandwidth as value. It makes code confusing. So using pos_ratio will > help. Agreed on consistency, also I'm not sure bandwidth is the right term here to begin with, its a pages/s unit and I think rate would be better here. But whatever ;-)