Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

Christoph Hellwig
2007-08-05T20:41:42Z

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:26:53AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I always thought the right solution would be to just sync atime only
> very very lazily. This means if a inode is only dirty because of an
> atime update put it on a "only write out when there is nothing to do
> or the memory is really needed" list.

Which is the policy I implemented for XFS a while ago.