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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] IO-less dirty throttling v11
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On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 09:53:05AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Finally, the complete IO-less balance_dirty_pages(). NFS is observed to perform
> better or worse depending on the memory size. Otherwise the added patches can
> address all known regressions.
> 
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/writeback.git dirty-throttling-v11
> 	(to be updated; currently it contains a pre-release v11)

Fengguang,

is there any chance we could start doing just the IO-less
balance_dirty_pages, but not all the subtile other changes?  I.e. are
the any known issues that make things work than current mainline if we
only put in patches 1 to 6?  We're getting close to another merge
window, and we're still busy trying to figure out all the details of
the bandwith estimation.  I think we'd have a much more robust tree
if we'd first only merge the infrastructure (IO-less
balance_dirty_pages()) and then work on the algorithms separately.