From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
sgoel01@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [VM PATCH 2.6.6-rc3-bk5] Dirty balancing in the presence of mapped pages
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:24:35 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40985E73.6000901@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40985C91.9080809@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> It doesn't do the wakeup_bdflush thing, but that sounds
>>> like a good idea. What does wakeup_bdflush(-1) mean?
>>
>>
>>
>> It appears that it will cause pdflush to write out down to
>> dirty_background_ratio.
>>
>
> Yeah. So wakeup_bdflush(0) would be more consistent?
>
No. Sorry, next time I'll actually read the code :|
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-05 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-05 0:20 [VM PATCH 2.6.6-rc3-bk5] Dirty balancing in the presence of mapped pages Shantanu Goel
2004-05-05 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-05 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-05 2:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-05 3:16 ` Nick Piggin
2004-05-05 3:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-09 17:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-05-05 4:31 ` Shantanu Goel
2004-05-05 5:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-05 16:56 ` Nikita Danilov
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