From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] A clean aEvgeniy pproach to writeout throttling
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:11:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712111211.00559.phillips@phunq.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071211200149.GA1927@kernel.dk>
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 12:01, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11 2007, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > The problem is solved. The main cornerstone of the solution is
> > bio throttling, simply because the resources in question are
> > consumed by bio transactions.
>
> ... because too much is pushed out. This isn't a mathematica problem,
> there's more than one solution to this problem. Throttling the bio
> count is one.
And nobody has been able to find another. Funny that. In fact, every
solution proposed so far has implicitly required the writeout traffic
to be throttled, even if that throttling was not part of the patch.
Without throttling, deadlock. Simple as that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 0:03 [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach to writeout throttling Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 1:24 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 6:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 7:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 9:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 11:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 15:52 ` Rik van Riel
2007-12-06 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 17:48 ` Rik van Riel
2007-12-06 20:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 20:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-06 21:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-06 21:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-07 0:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-07 0:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-07 7:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 9:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 10:47 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 11:23 ` [RFC] [PATCH] A clean aEvgeniy pproach " Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 11:41 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 12:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 12:16 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 12:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 12:32 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:04 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:19 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:30 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 13:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 13:53 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-10 14:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-11 13:15 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-11 19:38 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-11 20:01 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-11 20:11 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2007-12-11 20:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 11:33 ` [RFC] [PATCH] A clean approach " Daniel Phillips
2007-12-10 21:31 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-12-10 22:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-12-11 4:21 ` Daniel Phillips
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