From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755549Ab2GXHzD (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:55:03 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:6397 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755084Ab2GXHzB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:55:01 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="197235572" Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:54:59 +0800 From: Fengguang Wu To: rajman mekaco Cc: LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [QUERY]: Understanding the calculations in mm/page-writeback.c Message-ID: <20120724075459.GB9519@localhost> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Rajman, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 09:18:57PM +0530, rajman mekaco wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand the calculations in mm/page-writeback.c but > I am falling short of theoretical knowledge. > > What online (or otherwise) reading material can be used to fully > understand the maths formulae in mm/page-writeback.c ? Here is the slides I used in LinuxCon Japan 2012, please feel free to ask more specific questions on it :) http://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lcjp2012_wu.pdf Thanks, Fengguang