From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261680AbUEEDYm (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 23:24:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261576AbUEEDYm (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 23:24:42 -0400 Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.115]:28251 "HELO smtp018.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261680AbUEEDYj (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 23:24:39 -0400 Message-ID: <40985E73.6000901@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 13:24:35 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040401 Debian/1.6-4 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Andrew Morton , 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 References: <20040505002029.11785.qmail@web12821.mail.yahoo.com> <20040504180345.099926ec.akpm@osdl.org> <40984E89.6070501@yahoo.com.au> <20040504195753.0a9e4a54.akpm@osdl.org> <40985C91.9080809@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <40985C91.9080809@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Nick Piggin 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 :|