From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block2mtd: throttle writes by calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited.
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:29:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355398149.3400.47.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121212193215.645da577@notabene.brown>
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On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 19:32 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> If you create a block2mtd device that is larger than main memory,
> and write to all of it, then lots of pages will be dirtied but
> they will never be flushed out as nothing calls any variant of
> balance_dirty_pages.
>
> It would be nice to call set_page_dirty_balance(), but that isn't exported,
> so just call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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2012-12-12 8:32 [PATCH] block2mtd: throttle writes by calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited NeilBrown
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