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From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout()
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <390942329.08474@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20070928011846.GA5496@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070927111610.68584fdd@bree.surriel.com>

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:16:10AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:50:16 +0800
> Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> 
> > We don't want to introduce pointless delays in throttle_vm_writeout()
> > when the writeback limits are not yet exceeded, do we?
> 
> Good catch.

Thank you.
 
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

It could be a good fix for 2.6.22/23.  But for -mm, I'm not
sure if throttle_vm_writeout() will be eventually removed ;-)


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28  1:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070927015016.GA11080@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-27  1:50 ` [PATCH] writeback: remove unnecessary wait in throttle_vm_writeout() Fengguang Wu
2007-09-27 15:16   ` Rik van Riel
     [not found]     ` <20070928011846.GA5496@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-09-28  1:18       ` Fengguang Wu [this message]
2007-09-27 20:47   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  8:02     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-27 22:59       ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 16:23       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-28  0:10         ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-28 17:57           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-28 19:50             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-09-28 20:25             ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-27 21:49   ` Nick Piggin

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